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INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN DADAAB

Introduction
The Dadaab refugee complex is located in Northern part of Kenya in Garissa County, Dadaab and Fafi sub counties. It has three camps namely; Ifo, Dagahaley and Hagadera. It has a population of 233,736 registered refugees and asylum seekers as at the end of July 2022 (UNHCR, 2022). The first camp was established in 1991, when refugees fleeing the civil war in Somalia started to cross the border into Kenya. A second large influx occurred in 2011, when some 130,000 refugees arrived, fleeing drought and famine in southern Somalia.

What is inclusive education
Inclusive Education is a process for increasing participation and reducing exclusion, in a way that effectively responds to the diverse needs of all learners. It takes into account the individual teaching and learning needs of all marginalized and vulnerable learners and young people, including learners with disabilities. Inclusive education aims to ensure that these learners are afforded equal rights and opportunities in education. (Inclusive Education Policy, Handicap International, 2012).

Inclusive Education in Dadaab
Humanity & Inclusion (HI) in consortium with Lutheran World Federation (LWF) funded by European Union of Civic Protection and Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) have been implementing inclusive education project in Dadaab aiming to provide safe, quality and equitable access to inclusive education for 22 primary school children in Dadaab refugee camp. The first project run from July 2020- March 2022. Currently, the organizations are continuing with the project from April 2022- December 2023.

Humanity & Inclusion
Handicap International (HI) Federation also known as Humanity & Inclusion is a global leading actor promoting and ensuring the inclusion of people with disabilities and vulnerable populations. HI is present in 59 countries globally and has worked in Kenya since 1992 with a niche mandate on the inclusion and participation of people with disabilities in social, political and economic sectors both in development and humanitarian spheres. Within the development sector, HI has implemented programmes in inclusive education, child protection, inclusive elections, inclusive livelihoods, inclusive health, armed violence reduction and gender projects in various Counties in Kenya including Nairobi, Trans Nzoia, West Pokot and Garissa counties. In humanitarian and protracted emergencies, HI has been present in Dadaab since 2006 and in Kakuma since 2014, implementing actions on community-based rehabilitation (Mainstreaming, Rehabilitation and MHPSS); inclusive education; child protection, and inclusive livelihoods. The projects have been funded and supported by various donors and partners including ECHO, UNHCR, PRM, FCDO, MAE Lux, and private foundations. HI has been the partner of choice in the two refugee camps on matters of disability inclusion mainstreaming, working with partners to implement inclusive projects while also offering technical support to partners to ensure their programmes are progressively inclusive. HI has fully-functional offices, led by Operation Managers, in both locations. In Dadaab, HI has 25 national staff and 130 incentive workers and in Kakuma 33 national staff and 150 incentive workers. In Education, HI has implemented and demonstrated the concept of inclusion to other relevant stakeholders through the on-going ECHO-funded Inclusive Education project (formal education in Kakuma & Dadaab) and the previous ECHO-funded Inclusive Education action for non-formal education in Dadaab. In 2021, HI’s programming in Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps impacted 36,218 direct beneficiaries, out of which 16,594 were directly reached with inclusive education interventions, supported by ECHO, 1,552 were supported by other partners (Mastercard Foundation and Porticus) while the remaining 18,072 were supported through child protection project.

The Lutheran World Federation Lutheran World Federation World Service (LWF WS) is the globally recognized humanitarian actor of the LWF, with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. LWF is active in 28 countries and runs programs on Livelihoods, Quality Services (including EiE), Protection and Social Cohesion. LWF’s Kenya-Djibouti-Somalia program has been in operation in Kakuma since 1992 and Dadaab since 2008, with the head office in Nairobi. Apart from the long-standing experience in Kenya, LWF has operations in refugee/IDP settings in the region (Djibouti, Somalia, Uganda, South Sudan, and Ethiopia). In Kenya, LWF employs 2 international staff and 401 national staff; 21 for Nairobi, 126 for Dadaab and 254 for Kakuma. In addition, more than 2022 refugee incentive workers (776 Dadaab, 1246 Kakuma) are trained to implement key activities. In both camps LWF is in charge of running pre-primary and primary education with 43 primary schools; 21 in Kakuma and 22 in Dadaab, and 13 pre-schools in Kakuma with a total enrolment of 81,315 learners (46,398boys, 34,917 girls) including 2728 children with disabilities and 3321 overage learners under Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) housed within the primary schools, as of December 2021.