Getting children from all backgrounds to attend school has been an important issue across the Western Balkans. The challenge has been particularly acute for children from minority and vulnerable families that, in the past, have been purposely excluded, at worst or, less insensitively, just neglected. To apply a more inclusive policy, the Serbian Ministry of Education and Science (MoES) has undertaken a range of activities to establish ways of ensuring additional support for children with disabilities and learning difficulties, and children from families with challenging socio-economic backgrounds.
To ensure real results have been made, the MoES needed to develop and implement a system for regular monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of inclusive practices. In these circumstances, WBIF has provided a grant to design a quality assurance system for monitoring and evaluation of the inclusive education policy. This M&E system can be used to support the daily work of education professionals at the school and municipal levels and also assist with further inclusion-related policies and their implementation.
In particular, technical assistance activities have included:
