Additional Context: This information comes from a report produced by Inclusive Development Partners, or IDP, a research and technical assistance organization. Using a mixed-methods design under IRB approval from the University of Massachusetts Boston, the study triangulated a global survey of staff from 82 projects across 80 implementing organizations with key informant interviews and focus group discussions across eight countries where IDP had existing programs: Bangladesh, El Salvador, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, and Pakistan. Data collection took place between January and March 2026.

According to IDP, in Northeast Nigeria, a cohort of students with disabilities was completing an accelerated basic education program that represented, according to one government respondent, the first time in Nigeria’s basic education history that out-of-school children had been enrolled continuously from the foundational level through junior secondary.

Source: Inclusive Development Partners