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Is it really possible to end extreme poverty within a generation?
Despite the progress made, the number of people living in extreme poverty globally remains unacceptably high. And given global growth forecasts, poverty reduction may not be fast enough to reach the target of ending extreme poverty by 2030.
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Dylan’s Test Resource
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Team Planet: An Action Pack on Ourselves and the World
Core to the Team Planet programme is the notion of the connectedness and interdependence of all people, systems and cycles of life. This resource is

10 Myths About Corporate Social Responsibility
This CSR myths pocket-size booklet includes: Why thinking about corporate social responsibility matters 10 short myths about how it is only a public relations exercise

Teacher Toolkit: Ice breakers
This resource includes the following ‘ice breaker’ activities to get groups of learners moving and warmed up: The Geography Game Gentle Rain Linking Words “And

Teacher Toolkit: Sustainable Development Goals
This short resource introducing the Sustainable Development Goals, also known as the Global Goals, includes: workshop materials that cover the following questions – What does

Teacher Toolkit: Sustainable Agriculture
This short agriculture and sustainability resource includes: Introductions to food security, causes of the global food security crisis, links to the Irish famine and famine

Teacher Toolkit: Gender Equality
This 6-activities led resource focuses on three key dimensions Exploring why gender is important in development Exploring some of the main gender and women’s rights

Teacher Toolkit: Climate Change and Climate Justice
This resource includes: background briefs on climate change, climate justice and food miles 8 activities for adapting for interactive workshops videos, links and onward reference

Teacher Toolkit: Trade Justice
International trade is the norm, but are the rules fair and does everyone benefit? Students can act as part of the solution towards global equality.

Brighter Futures Ahead: A Development Education Toolkit for Youth Groups
Brighter Futures Ahead explores food security, gender equality and climate justice which are some of the key challenges facing young people globally today. This resource:
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10 Myths About Global Waste
It is a startling reality that much of the material output generated by the world since the Industrial Revolution is still with us – despite

‘All of me was learning, not just my mind…’: reflecting on study visits and immersion programmes in development education
This guide explores many of the issues involved in study visits and immersion programmes; it offers practical suggestions and ideas for organising them as well as for reflecting on them.

What The Fact?
What The Fact? Sorting facts from fiction on key global development, human rights and justice issues Photo: ‘Discovery’ © Gauthier Delecroix via Flickr used under

Getting started with global issues – a primary level guide
Photo: © Clifton Rooney (2017) www.developmenteducation.ie hosts a wide range of materials and resources that cover diverse global development themes and issues. These are presented

Ár nDomhan Inniu – as Gaeilge
Fáilte roimh rannóg na Gaeilge ar developmenteducation.ie This section is an Irish-language reference point for resources, ideas and debates on global development issues. Ár nDomhan

Learning to Change the World: An Audit of Development Education Resources in Ireland 2013- 2016
Learning to Change the World: An Audit of Development Education Resources in Ireland 2013-2016, follows on directly from the initial audit covering the period 2000

Guidelines for Producing Development Education Resources
The guidelines for producing development education resources were jointly produced by developmenteducaiton.ie, the Development Education Working Group of Dóchas and the Irish Development Education Association