Jean-François Trani|Parul Bakhshi|Anand Nandipati
‘Delivering’ education; maintaining inequality. The case of children with disabilities in Afghanistan
Washington University in St. Louis|Washington University in St. Louis
abstract education children disabilities afghanistan particularly disabled girls continues lag behind despite laudable efforts ministry education promote universal access opportunity education constitutes means achieving learning outcomes also space social interaction individual development psychosocial support paramount conflictaffected fragile states cafs however many persisting barriers still need overcome afghanistan allow education change negative attitudes towards education children disabilities paper argue viewing education basic commodity widespread practice cafs conducive expanding human freedoms capabilities specifically analyses national survey demonstrate despite considerable resources increasing access education afghanistan maintained processes marginalisation already excluded keywords capability approachdisabilitieseducationprejudicestigma notes 1 grade system afghanistan follows primary school spans grades 16 middle school spans grades 79 secondary school spans grades 1012 2 ministry education afghanistan established twolevel management training programmes school staff 2009 3 overcome identified gaps humanitarian response various past crises uns interagency standing committee iasc established nine clusters 2005 clusters composed un agencies ngos international organisations around sector service provided humanitarian crisis initially nine identified clusters protection camp coordination management water sanitation hygiene health emergency shelter nutrition emergency telecommunications logistics early recovery led designated agency two additional clusters education agriculture later added iasc produced operational guidance designated clustersector leads emergencies objective provide better coordinated consistent timely assistance disability constitutes subcluster within health cluster