USAID’s Office of Education is committed to collecting, analyzing and using disability data in USAID Education Programming in order to ensure efforts are inclusive of children and youth with disabilities. In 2018,
USAID released guidance to partners and staff promoting the use of the Washington Group Short Set of Disability Questions (WGSS) for education planning, monitoring and evaluation purposes across the USAID Program Cycle. This guidance noted that the WGSS might be less precise when used with children. Thus, USAID is beginning a journey to understand how to best measure disability in primary school aged children.
Implementing Partners (IPs) have developed disability data collection tools for use in primary-level education programming. USAID, through its Data and Evidence for Education Programs (DEEP) activity, will carry out:
- A mapping of tools designed to identify children with disabilities
- Meta-analysis of the quality and reliability of disability data collected by IPs
- A consensus building workshop around best practice in collecting disability data on children in USAID-funded education programming
Please join us to learn about these activities and the ways you can contribute to this initiative. Details on how to connect to the session
are here. Live captioning and ASL interpretation will both be available for this webinar.
We look forward to your participation and appreciate the time you will dedicate to this important session.
Kindly,
Joshua Josa
Disability Inclusive Education Portfolio
QUEST Team, Office of Education, Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and Environment (E3)
