Building Capacity in the Development Education Sector in Ireland is an Irish Aid-supported capacity-building project in the North and South of Ireland with the aim of enhancing practice, improving communication and strengthening capacity in the development education sector.  It also aims to increase opportunities for reflection on practice and networking among practitioners.  The project consists of three key activities:

   * a bi-annual development education journal:  Policy and Practice: a development education review;
   * an annual conference;
   * and two development education seminars per annum.

The project is currently in its sixth year of operation.

Each component was organised to attract the widest possible spectrum of development and development education practitioners and academics, through conference workshops, seminar discussion topics and journal themes.  The conference provides practitioners with a day-long event to network with others and debate current development education practice.

The seminars are shorter, more in-depth events that serve as a launch for each issue of the journal.  Seminar facilitators included journal contributors, practitioners, and academics to stimulate debate on current development education events and research.

The journal serves as a more formal vehicle for discussion and debate.  It features contributions from development and development education practitioners from the island of Ireland, the United Kingdom, the European Union, North America and the developing world.  The diversity of contributors helps the sector to widen their understanding of the delivery and effectiveness of development education at local and international levels.  The journal publishes articles on current research initiatives, methodologies and good practice and enables readers to learn from the knowledge and experience of others.

- It works to improve communication and strengthen capacity in the global education sector in the North and South of Ireland.

- Co-ordinating an annual global education conference for practitioners to share practice and facilitate in-depth discussion on global education practice.

- Delivering global education training seminars in the North and South of Ireland.

For further information on this project contact stephen@centreforglobaleducation.com or tel: 028 9024 1879

This project:

The project produces a bi-annual Journal to facilitate reflection and discourse on global education practice in Ireland. In Autumn of 2009, Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review made the transition to online, open-access journal. The journal features in-depth contributions on aspects of global education practice such as methodologies, monitoring and evaluation, the production of resources, enhancing organisational capacity, strategic interventions in education, and sectoral practice. The journal aims to celebrate and promote existing good practice in global education, inform the work of practitioners in new or under-developed organisations by offering exemplars of good practice and to promote global education within the statutory education sector in Ireland. 

The journal can be found here: www.developmenteducationreview.com. 

Please click here to find out more information about the current issue, upcoming themes, article abstracts and contributor guidelines.

Conference reports for past conferences can be found below:

'Reflections and Projections: Mapping the past and charting the future of
development education'                                                                                                                                                                                                                             February 2011