Development education partners
As part of its development education programme, Concern supports groups around Ireland that raise awareness and campaign for action on issues affecting the developing world.
Currently Concern works closely with the following groups:
DevelopmentEducation.ie
This is a partnership between Concern, 80:20, Aidlink, NYCI, Self Help Ireland and Irish Aid. The primary work of the partnership is the www.developmenteducation.ie website, a leading development and human rights education site. The partnership is also engaged in a campaign hgilighting the millennium development goals with schools across the country.
80:20 - Educating and acting for a better world
In practical terms, 80:20 is about working with young people throughout Ireland, north and south, to explore and debate development issues. It’s about promoting human rights education in issues such as gender, HIV and AIDS and human development in villages in Zambia (alongside our partners Women for Change).
80:20 is involved in producing educational materials on such issues, organising and delivering workshops, painting murals and making “identity boxes”. Its job is to work with people to help them face a series of complex and challenging questions which are, at first sight, about the situation of others but, upon reflection, are really about ourselves and what we stand for.
Fairtrade Mark Ireland
The fairtrade mark guarantees that products have been produced according to internationally agreed fairtrade standards, that ensuring a better deal for producers in the developing world. In Ireland the fairtrade mark is supported by all the main overseas development agencies and by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.
Peter Gaynor, from Fairtrade Mark Ireland, says “Fairtrade is not a Trojan Horse for protectionism. By seeking to influence the behaviour of consumers, the Fairtrade movement harnesses that most powerful of economic instruments – the market mechanism – to affect economic outcomes by strengthening the hand of impoverished developing-country producers.”
Suas
Suas provides technical and financial support to six education projects in India and Kenya, promoting high quality education for 10,000 children a year.
The network of 10 Suas societies provide opportunities to volunteer in the local community, fundraise for the overseas schools and raise awareness about development issues. Suas runs an annual programme of 30 evening courses and speaker events nationwide that aim to engage and inspire the wider public to participate in social change.
Since 2002, 370 volunteers have worked with schools and education projects in India and Kenya. They work as teaching assistants and coaches for 10 weeks during the summer and fundraise enough to cover the costs of the trip and a donation to the school.
National Youth Council of Ireland
The National Youth Council of Ireland's development education programme helps youth organisations to integrate development education and anti-racist/intercultural development education into their work with young people. The programme is funded by Irish Aid and non-governmental-organisations.
Just Forests
Just Forests was founded in 1989 in response to global deforestation. It is one of Ireland's longest established organisations working solely on poverty-related tropical forestry issues, from a local development perspective. Just Forests uses society's dependence on wood and the on-going decline in global forests as a tool to establish links between the loss of terrestrial biodiversity, development, conflict and poverty.
Since its inception, Just Forests has always insisted that good forest stewardship is inseparable from sustainable development. It claims that failing to take this into account, risks undoing all the positive work being carried out by development agencies and governments to reduce poverty.
Banúlacht
Banúlacht is a feminist development education organisation committed to political action. It is involved in: training and capacity-building in the community development sector in Ireland; conferences, workshops and seminars on gender, development and human rights; research and policy work; publication of briefing papers, newsletters, reports and training resources.
Banúlacht carries out an annual programme of workshops and short courses with women’s organisations in Ireland. Workshop themes include:
• Gender and development
• Women, power and decision-making
• Women’s human rights
• Economic literacy
KADE
KADE, formed in 1993, is a community-based company run by a board of management composed of representatives from local bodies as well as individuals. KADE undertakes its work in response to local interest in development education and the need for provision of a local development education resource base.
Kade aims to
- Promote development education in County Kerry
- Increase understanding of development education and practice
- Support local projects related to development issues
- Act as a contact for returned development workers and those interested in issues such as human rights, interculturalism, etc
- Promote actions that will help us to work together as effective citizens for greater human rights, social justice and sustainable development
Africa Centre
Africa Centre was founded in the year 2000 by a group of activists in the African immigrant community who wanted the community to have a voice and promote their active participation in Irish society. Its vision is of a just and inclusive society in Ireland, one that ensures minority ethnic communities have equal opportunities, and that is conscious of our global inter-connectedness.
The Africa Centre aims to reach out to the African immigrant community in Ireland and to promote their participation in society and improve their living standards. It also works to promote links between Ireland and Africa and to advance public education and knowledge on intercultural and anti-racism issues.
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