This indicator examines whether children from a particular marginalised community have equal access to education. Marginalised groups include women and girls, Indigenous peoples and minorities, persons with disabilities, persons with HIV / AIDS, child labourers, persons in detention, migrants, refugees and IDPs, and persons living in poverty.
This indicator measures the rate of children of a specific group enrolled in ECCE centres/schools/educational institutions at a given level of education as a percentage of the total number of children from the specific group to be enrolled in that level of education.
Convention on the Rights of the Child, Articles 6.2, 18, 28.1, General Comment No. 23 (paras. 59 and 62); UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education, Articles 1 and 3.e; International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Articles 2.2, 2.3, 13.2, General Comment No. 13 (paras. 6, 31 to 37); Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, Article 10(a), General Comment No. 34 (paras. 43, 44), General Comment No. 36 (paras. 36, 39.a); Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, Article 30, Joint General Comment 4 (para.59 and 62); Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, Article 22; International Covenant on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Article 5(v); Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Article 24.
Specific Group: Depending on the local context and your monitoring plan, you may customise the indicator and specifically define the specific group who are in a disadvantaged position and whom you are focussing on in your monitoring work. Similarly, customise that indicator with the level of education that you are focussing on in your monitoring work. For instance, here below are some indicators that are customised to specific groups: