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Disabled children constitute more than a third of the approximately 67 million children who are not currently enrolled in primary school. Yet access for disabled children is often not a policy priority. A quality education is one of the keys to empowerment; raising self esteem and lifting people out of poverty.

Our ultimate aim is that governments ensure that all disabled children have the opportunity to receive a quality education within the wider education system. In the short term, we will demonstrate approaches to delivering high quality education for visually impaired children in their local context, which are scalable, adaptable and cost effective.

Here are some key resources, some produced by Sightsavers alone and some in collaboration with others, which showcase our position and research findings on key issues within education that affect the lives of visually impaired people.

Policy and advocacy briefings 

• Making inclusive education a reality
• Meeting the challenge
• Getting disabled children into school
• Education MDG recommendations 2010
• The final countdown - a report by GCE
• National Consultation on Inclusive Education in Pakistan
• Policy and Practice in Inclusive Education in Sri Lanka and Pakistan
• Policy recommendations for inclusive education - advocacy pack
• Barriers to education - advocacy pack
• Findings from research supported by Sightsavers - advocacy pack

Research documents

• Education for All conference
• Education for All monitoring report
• Education for All: situational analysis of inclusive education in Madya Pradesh India
• Current status Childhood Blindness in Pakistan

Sightsavers' policies on our programme operations

• Sightsavers' Education Policy