Shout inclusive education

Inclusive education is simply an education system where children with disabilities learn together with other children and it is the magic that bears fruit in the long term, for everyone.

To promote inclusive education in Ghana, The Shout Africa Foundation is in partnership with the Ghana Education Service Special Education Division to run The Shout Inclusive Education Campaign in public schools in Ghana.  

The first step in creating an effective learning environment for students with special educational needs is to develop an effective sensitization and training program for the stakeholders in education (the teachers, students, parents or guardians and the community) to promote inclusion. We have three carefully planned and data driven pilot projects which will be run throughout the year 2021. The nationwide implementation will depend on the success of these programs.

To increase the graduation rates of persons with disabilities in Basic Education Certificate Exams and the West African Examination Council. By encouraging the inclusion and development of all students with special educational needs, they will be prepared for future job skills programs such as TVET. This will further influence an increase in their employment rates in Ghana to 50% by 2031. 

The goals of this project are of great interest to the Ghana Education Service and the Ministry of Education, because the development of an inclusive education program falls in line with Ghana’s Inclusive Education Policy. This policy, which was implemented from 2015, aims to ensure that children with disabilities were not deterred from enrolling in schools through the promotion of a learner-friendly school environment.

The results of the pilot programs will be used to build an inclusive education program for schools in Ghana. Since the results will come specifically from Ghanaian schools, they will not be generalizable to other countries; however, due to similarities in school systems and stigma in West Africa, it is likely that this study can inspire future studies in other countries in this region.