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081 - Access to an inclusive and secure education for young people with
disabilities, RET, Panama
CONTACT
RET International
Ms. Marina Anselme
Panama
+507 317 1934
OVERALL GOAL /MISSION
The project aims to invigorate the capacities of the Institute for Special Housing Panama to guarantee an inclusive and
secure education, even in situations of emergency and disaster.
THE SOLUTION THAT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED
The centres for inclusive education in Panama are not equipped with knowledge and capacities to prepare themselves,
reduce or conduct risks of disasters. There also does not exist an interdisciplinary answer to tackle the themes of
disabilities and risks of disasters for the protection of the rights of children, juveniles and adolescents with disabilities in
situations of emergency and disaster. Therefore, this project wants to increase the resilience of the centres, its
management, its employees, its technicians, its lecturers, students, families and the community. The projects
intervention is concentrated on education and participation, which shall work as a medium to generate a culture of
inclusive management of risks of disasters. It participates in the construction of a common language that allows the
creation of capacities to manage risks of disasters that affect adolescents and juveniles with disabilities and their
families. It also contributes to the production of plans and projects for the prevention, appeasement, preparation and
reconstruction of risks in an inclusive form. Furthermore, the project members support the construction of interior
capacities at schools and inside the authorities of management of public education to perceive the different types of
disabilities. Finally, it also aims at strategic actors of the management of disaster risks at a national and local level.
Within this context, the project has developed different inclusive methods and tools for the information of adolescents
and juveniles to reduce risks of disasters.
COUNTRIES IN WHICH IT WAS DEVELOPED: Panama
COUNTRY/ COUNTRIES IN WHICH IT IS OPERATING: Panama
FACTS ABOUT SIZE AND SCOPE
1. Direct beneficiaries: 3732 children, adolescents and juveniles with disabilities
2. Direct beneficiaries: 267 lecturers and technicians of 23 schools