On 26 April, a narrow professional discussion in Chatham House format was having the objective to highlighting inclusive education and social services, problems, major shortcomings, problem specifics in the regions, as well as key directions and steps for improvement. The discussion was held in the scope of the \u201cFor Quality and Accessible Inclusive Education and Social Support\u201d sub-project implemented in the framework of the EU funded \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d project.<\/p>\n
During the meeting, the Armavir Development Center NGO presented the results of the surveys of inclusive education monitoring and community-based centres providing social services conducted within the framework of the \u201cFor Quality and Accessible Inclusive Education and Social Support project.<\/p>\n
Specifically, Serob Khachatryan, who conducted the “Problems of Inclusive Education” survey, presented its results and current situation, including issues related to teacher training and professional development, issues of the human capital management, disagreements over children’s educational needs assessment, lack of flexibility of the curricula and the system of assessment of progress, lack of a unified database of children with the need of special education conditions, lack of inter-agency cooperation\u00a0and other problems.<\/p>\n
Anahit Nahapetyan, who conducted the Community Assistance Services Survey, presented its results, the results of the survey and mapping data among the twenty-two community support organizations.\u00a0A number of issues were mentioned, including donor and temporary funding, specialist training, study of experience, in-house training (without special needs consideration) and other issues.<\/p>\n
Project Manager Naira Arakelyan summarized the results of the research.\u00a0The main conclusions and recommendations of the two areas were presented to the public administration and regional bodies, international organizations, civil society organizations,\u00a0community structures and other stakeholders.\u00a0As a result of the discussions on the identified issues, a number of suggestions were elaborated, which are detailed in the minutes of the event.<\/p>\n