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085 - The Way to inclusion, Association Dea, Georgia

ONTACT

Association "Dea"

Ms. Madonna Kharebava

Georgia

+995 415220611

VERALL GOAL

MISSION

The project is directed towards contributing to the improvement of inclusive education through stimulating cooperation

between education institutions and parents/caregivers and included the following objectives:

Strengthening cooperation between main actors and stakeholders and enhancing dialogue opportunities for their

effective inclusion in creating more welcoming school environment;

Supporting capacity development of civil society to better influence the decision-making processes; institutionalization

of relationship between main actors and stakeholders of inclusive education in micro and macro environment;

Raising society awareness on the rights and needs of persons with disabilities and change attitudes towards persons

with disabilities through increasing sensitiveness towards discrimination on the grounds of disability.

The model of cooperation between school and parents/care givers was developed in the frame of the project. The

model was developed based on the analysis of survey results and comparative analysis of foreign experience vs

Georgian reality. Trainings, discussion meetings, conferences, discussion meetings were organized, moot court, social

videos, radio; article, brochures, and booklets were published.

HE SOLUTION THAT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED

The Ministry of Education and Science (MoES) has outlined the necessity of needs of the model developed within the

project on the first international conference held in Tbilisi in 2011 in the field of the inclusive education. In the project

were actively involved the MoES, the Public Defender’s Office as the associate members and several NGOs working on

the issues of human rights protection. They were interested in the model development. Thus, there have been no

barriers from the side of the State structures. This project is one of the best examples of collaboration between an NGO

and State institutions.

Driving force of our concept is a vision according to which both teacher and parent are committed to creating

reasonable school environment for ALL STUDENTS, due to the name of our organization it is often perceived that we

should be focusing on the problems of children with disabilities and their family members only. We deliberately do not

consider reasonable school environment from the narrow scope of view. The inclusive school we are striving towards

does not leave space for this narrow scope but it is open for everyone