This booklet aims to raise awareness about specific issues older women face both in Ireland and in developing countries. It describes how older women face similar challenges wherever they are from. In both contexts they suffer both age and gender discrimination. In raising awareness about the intersecting inequalities older women
The guidelines outline the policy framework for engaging with older people in development and key factors associated with working with older people, before presenting introductory guidance for organisations to consider in their work. This guidance addresses external action and programming, the role of advocacy and considerations for organisations’ internal systems
“Explores how Confirmation can play a key part in the development of global citizens in Ireland and examines how God, through Confirmation, can help and equip us to help to be more active citizens” The teaching resource Confirming Hope: Is split into 4 sessions that each includes: an SDG, Team
What kind of NGO would secondary school students create if they had the chance? Plan International Ireland looks back an example in the making from 2015.
Does your candidate support human rights for all and will work to tackle the climate emergency? A quick guide to election manifestos and pledges
Development education is driven by a desire to bring about a sustainable and just world, where people are empowered to overcome poverty and hunger and fully realise their rights and potential. This strategy seeks to increase the accessibility, quality and effectiveness of development education in Ireland. It aims to see
In the fourth part of the series, John Dornan and Suzanne Bunniss explore how the equality and empowerment of women relates to religious faith and development
Drought and Migration in Ethiopia is an educational resource which uses the methodology of process drama to enable children to learn, through imagined experience, about life in Ethiopia. The resource includes a scheme of work which contains five lesson plans. These lessons are designed to last an hour each utilise a
Covid-19 highlights the importance of our Global Citizenship and Development Education. A 3-part series.
The “Africa needs help” vs. “No! Africa can teach you lessons!” is tiring. Other than benefiting a few pundits, are we deriving any value from it? George Kibala Bauer
The Wood of Life is a hands-on, interactive exhibition for schools, libraries and other education facilities. The exhibition also makes direct links to many of the Sustainable Development Goals
County councils are vital as leaders in ethical practices in communities and as reminders of the global footprint of natural resources they use and the many people connected to that use, argues Tom Roche
How many people are struggling to overcome hunger in the world today are we on track to achieve zero hunger by 2030? Colm Regan presents 5 key takeaways from the 2020 Global Hunger Index and the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World reports
GOAL have made their Changemakers programme accessible and easy to use. You can choose from any of the following ways to participate, in English or as Gaeilge: Changemakers Lessons: Curriculum-linked, classroom-ready resources are available for 1st – 6th classes. You and your pupils will be guided through our Changemakers programme
Welcome to the rundown of the 20 most popular resources by visitors on developmenteducation.ie across 2020, based on downloads.
As World Food Day 2021 approaches, two flagship reports present report cards on the last 12 months. Among the annual challenges of improving data collection to track and measure hunger, the COVID-19 pandemic has trampled on decades of incremental progress.
It’s not every week that your work gets selected to join an international event such as the World Expos. World exhibitions, which first emerged in 1851 as ‘World Fairs’ (the term ‘Expo’ was introduced in the 1960s) played an important role in bringing the world together at regular intervals to
This documentary helps make the ideas of holistic development more accessible by offering a real world example of a holistic approach in action. Furthermore, it gives a voice to the individuals who are impacted by the issues at hand. This short documentary was released as a supplement to the feature
Economist Michael Green explores where progress has been made in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals, and where there has been stagnation, or a decline. He finds that levels of hunger and basic medical care are broadly improving across the globe. Clean water and sanitation has seen some improvement since
This activity pack is divided into two sections: five activities for 5-7 year olds and five for 7-11 year olds. Most of the activities only require printing out some resource sheets, while some others require a sports hall, oranges or some paper plates for example. The activities are as follows:
The year is 1985, and Ethiopia is at the peak of a three-year famine that kills a reported 1.2 million people. Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, and some of the most famous musicians in the world record the charity single, We Are the World. Over in the U.K, Bob
PARI generates content in video, photo, audio and text archives on contemporary and current issues facing rural India. Pari Education offers an educational curriculum that encourages students to learn about the everyday lives of rural Indians. They seek to break stereotypes and expand references that would allow readers to explore,
A guidebook to support teachers and students in learning about greenwashing as a barrier to sustainable development.
Teaching young people about natural disasters like earthquakes can be challenging, but it is important that they understand why they happen, and the progress humanity has made in limiting their damaging effects.
The report presents the findings of research into the sectors’ attention to the current dominant economic system, i.e. neoliberalism/’free market’ economics, and its influence on poverty, inequality and injustice. The report places the findings of the research in the context of the sectors’ education work with the public. The research
About DevelopmentEducation.ie is an online resource focused on the unequal and unjust shape of the world today. https://youtu.be/KSt8eD2xAF4 It offers resources to stimulate debate and discussion about the issues and challenges we face and which encourage us to make decisions about the type of world we need and want to create. It
What is ‘development’? What is done in the name of development? Who ‘does’ development and who is it done to? These are just some of the questions explored in a cartoon book launched earlier this year in India by the charity Survival: the movement for tribal peoples. The cartoon book
The “Girl Effect” and women’s rights Whether you agree with it or not the “girl effect” has become something of a phenomenon and popular catchphrase among international economic development projects since the Nike Foundation launched the initiative in 2008. ‘You start the girl effect’, the website proclaims, with the girl
First appearing in 2005 in issue 92, Granta magazine published ‘The View from Africa’ – a collection of memoir and reportage that sought to challenge the all too typical labelling and mono-symbolism drenched on the continent of Africa as a single homogenous place where everybody is the same. It may
Can you name the wealthiest person in the world, or how about five of the top twenty?