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Ensuring that every individual has access to and benefits from equal educational opportunities to advance their learning process remains a global challenge. Sustainable Development Goal 4 on education, as well as the Framework for Action for the realization of Sustainable Development Goal 4, emphasize the imperative of ensuring inclusion and equity as foundations for quality education. The 1960 UNESCO Convention against , as well as other international human rights treaties, prohibit any form of exclusion or limitation of educational opportunities on the basis of perceived or social differences (such as sex, gender, ethnic and social origin, language, religion, nationality, economic status, and ability). Therefore, the possibility of reaching the most excluded and marginalized groups, providing quality educational opportunities, requires the design and implementation of inclusive policies and programs. In this regard, UNESCO works in close coordination with governments and other key actors to address exclusion and inequity in education, paying particular attention to the needs of children and adolescents with disabilities, as well as indigenous peoples.

With the support of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), since March 2020, the UNESCO Quito Office has been working in twenty-nine Educational Institutions in the provinces of Azuay, Imbabura, Manabí and Pichincha in Ecuador, providing technical assistance to nearly 1700 professionals to strengthen inclusive processes that are reinforced through weekly workshops that promote the development of an institutional equality agenda, same that will strengthen the processes of educational inclusion in each of the intervened educational communities.