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Being seen and heard: involving young people in the Children’s Referendum

In just over two weeks the people of Ireland will be tasked with voting on the Children’s Referendum, on Saturday the 10th November.

We’re 100 blogs old!

This week marks the 100th post since we launched the developmenteducation.ie blog just over a year ago. Thanks to all our readers and contributors for

We need to talk about Kevin

This article is a response to Kevin Myers’ opinion piece on Friday, 5th October in The Irish Independent, titled: Why do we send money to

Celebration or Realisation? Uganda at Fifty

In a new series by www.developmentEducation.ie, Jamie Hitchen explores daily life and politics from Kampala, Uganda. Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of Ugandan independence from

Blood Wood

“Without forest we would have no access to clean water as the source of life …Forest is like the skin covering our body.” Chut Wutty

Are Africa’s women on the rise?

This was the question question recently explored by Malawian women’s rights campaigner Jessie Kabwila for the BBC’s Africa Debate programme last week. There have been

What we’re reading: £500million UK aid spent on private sector contracts; Andrew Mitchell throws class-based wobbly; development jargon sucks; how much water do we eat; why study development?

Many of the larger chunks of UK aid spending are channelled through big multilateral organisations and British firms. Last year alone, £500m was spent by