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Development Awareness Fund

List of Projects Approved 2003/04

 

Organisation 

Brief Summary of Project

Amount Awarded 

Period of Funding 

Abantu for Development

Poverty has a Women's Face: Gender and Coffee Links: to raise awareness among policy makers, businesses, consumers and trade unions of the inequalities within the coffee trade and its gendered impact. 

£199,414

2 years 

CADE

2015 - The Teachers' Contribution: To establish a pool of 174 teachers (primary & secondary) with expertise in development education who will raise awareness of world poverty in over 60% of Cornwall's schools (over 8000 pupils).

£168,509

  2 years 

CAMFED

Promoting Global Citizenship in Schools: to promote Global Citizenship in Schools which will provide support to teachers in East Anglia to foster global citizenship in their pupils.

  £147,400 

3 years 

Devon Development Education

Global Centre for Devon and Exeter: To secure the create of a sustainable Global Centre and the implementation of the South West EES strategy in Devon. 

£25,000

1 year 

Education for Development

London and the South: The project combines development education with skills training and an exploration of development practice, with the aim of enabling audiences to become more effectively involved in the work of the voluntary development sector, in relation to awareness-raising and building support for overseas development.

£47,362 

2 years 

Fairtrade Foundation

Fairtrade Towns and Cities: To educate, motivate and communicate local communities to work towards five goals which confer Fairtrade Town or City status.

  £99,526

3 years 

Fiankoma Project

Fiankoma Teacher Project: To engage new audiences in development awareness work and to encourage greater integration of development issues into the formal education curriculum of UK schools. To enable teachers and pupils in schools in Ghana and the UK to use Information and Communication Technology

£285,970<

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3 years 

Genderal Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU)

Workplace Representative Education in Globalisation and Development Part 2: To enable and encourage the Unions concerned to take an active and constructive role in practical development initiatives.

£29,327 

1 year 

Global Connections (World Studies and Training Centre) Ltd

Global Livelihoods Rights in Education and Learning: To enhance the engagement of Governments, civil society organisations, education & training bodies and the media to empower people through awareness and understanding of the challenge and prospects for development and poverty locally and globally. 

£270,000

3 years 

Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG)

Sustainable Technology Education Project Phase 2: To build on Phase 1 by continuing to increase awareness and understanding among young people (11-16 years) of appropriate technology and its role in sustainable development and global development. 

£71,810 

2 years 

Lancashire Global Education Centre

School Linking and Global Citizenship Project: To develop awareness and understanding among teachers, pupils and the wider school community of the links between people in the North and the South. Encourage commitment and action in working towards poverty reduction, sustainable development and global citizenship.

£150,000

3 years 

Leeds Development Education Centre

Just Linking Project: To enable children to understand causes of poverty regionally, globally and historically in the context of food production and trade issues. To create awareness of our interdependence regionally and globally to develop awareness of and challenge stereotype. 

£132,130

3 years 

Link Community Development 

Link Schools Programme: To build upon and add value to existing national initiatives which support international development in education. To provide information and set up further North-South links and encourage LEAs and DEC support.

£150,000 

3 years 

Manchester Metropolitan University and Development Education Project 

Initial Teacher Education and the Global Dimension: To enable and enhance the ability of teachers to address the global dimension in the classroom. To re-shape and deliver the Initial Teacher Education Training (ITET) training courses in the Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) and build capacity to deliver INSETs.

£194,860

  3 years 

Marie Stopes International 

Raising public awareness, understanding and support in the UK, Germany and France for HIV and AIDS interventions in developing countries through a media campaign, and the pandemic's impact on the poverty reduction agenda and achievement of the MDGs: To improve the quality of life of people at risk of or living with HIV and AIDS in developing countries and to build public support and raise awareness in UK via a media campaign.

£99,603 

21 months 

Marlborough Brandt Group

Young People in Wiltshire - Expanding the Global Dimension: To increase the capacity of teachers to deliver the global dimension of the citizenship curriculum, and thereby encourage young people to put theory into practice through responsible community action, research, materials and training, schools links, exchange visits etc.

£115,000

2 years 

National Youth Agency 

Raising Global Awareness in the Youth Service: To influence those working within the youth service to recognise the importance of a global dimension to their work and to offer them support and resources to make this happen. 

£293,684

3 years

One World Centre

Bringing a Global Dimension into the Youth Sector in Northern Ireland: To enhance Development Education in the youth sector in Northern Ireland in partnership with Youth net utilising materials, courses, workshops and liaison with other Development Education practitioners.

£148,992.60 

3 years 

People and Planet 

Seizing the Moment Shaping the Future: To encourage young people (16-19) to be active Global Citizens in the fight against poverty by building on the pilot project "Generation of Hope".

£127,000 

3 years

Powys Environmental and Development Education Centre

Raising awareness of Global and Development Issues: Reaching New Audiences throughout POWYS: To raise awareness of International Development issues to promote active global citizenship to new audiences throughout POWYS to strengthen and build on existing strategic partnerships. To identify and establish new partners focussing on the business sector.

£122,262 

3 years 

Refugee Council 

Global Communities Project: To raise awareness of the global causes and consequences of refugee and migration issues amongst school children in the UK. This will be achieved through the development of teaching resource packs exploring global refugee and migration. 

£225,258 

3 years 

SCIAF

Project Partnership Programme: To increase awareness and engagement of young people in Scotland on global justice issues, by providing Scottish schools with access to a model which will enable them to embed citizenship/ global dimension themes into all curricular areas. 

£140,000

3 years


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