Pakistan:
School for All
Donor: USAID • Partner: Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Timeframe: June 2024 – February 2025
The School Sab Ke Liye program (previously known as the Education Resilience Activity, ERA) was designed to improve Pakistan’s education ecosystem and enhance inclusive, sustained access to quality education for marginalized children, particularly girls and children with disabilities.
IDP served as a subawardee to Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and worked closely with CRS and local implementing partners, including organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs). IDP led technical areas of the project related to inclusive education (IE). IDP engaged throughout project implementation to provide technical leadership in IE-related assessments, training, capacity building, and implementation and integration of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in schools.
Project Highlights
- Conducted a policy and capacity assessment of institutional preparedness to implement inclusive education policies in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces, feeding into the implementation plan.
- Led a train-the-trainer workshop on the use of UDL and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) approaches to support inclusive education for students with and without disabilities.
- Implemented a quasi-experimental research study design to measure the impact of inclusive education interventions on teacher practice and student learning outcomes.