Sections:
DEVELOPMENT AWARENESS FUND
List of Projects Approved 2004/05
ORGANISATION |
BRIEF SUMMARY OF PROJECT |
AMOUNT AWARDED |
PERIOD OF FUNDING |
Africa's Expansion into Sustainability: To promote sympathetic awareness in the UK about African development initiatives, and hence help secure policies in the UK that are more supportive of Africa's development aspirations |
£211,687 |
3 years |
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What's it got to do with me? : To develop a creative dialogue between the three secondary schools in Plymouth and schools in Palestine, Kosovo and South Africa, leading to further development of feeder primary schools. |
£86,520 |
3 years |
|
"Halve it" Campaign to halve world poverty by 2015: On-line education campaign for churches, youth groups, schools and the wider networked community to learn about and campaign in support of the Millennium Development Goals. |
£140,080 |
3 years |
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Mainstreaming Development Issues: Project will focus around CR's key campaigns - Red Nose Day 2005 and Sports Relief 2006. The aim is to work with artists through the media to encourage the mass UK public to care about the impact of poverty, understand its causes etc. |
£284,680 |
3 years |
|
Comic Relief with Trading Visions, The Day Chocolate Company & Kuapa Kokoo |
Fairtrade Education Project: Provide engaging and effective teaching materials to UK schools and colleges focussing on real people and their life experiences. |
£292,200 |
3 years |
Crossroads: A Development Education Project: Aims to empower young people in the UK to act on an increased awareness of international development issues. It will provide training for teachers & students in ITE linked with a fully participatory resource production process. |
£23,950 |
2 years |
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Sowing the Seeds of Good Practice: To increase awareness & understanding of international Development issues in schools across Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset through empowering trainee teachers on Schools Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) |
£149,292 |
3 years |
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Fairtrade Out of Home: To focus on the out of home sector for introduction and promotion of Fairtrade in hotels, restaurants, catering establishments etc. Raising awareness and understanding of the causes & consequences of poverty in the developing world. |
£64,920 |
3 years |
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Workplace Representative Education in Globalisation & Development - Building Networks of International Development Champions: Will build upon and extend the work started with the current DFID project, which has been running since 2001. Objectives are to continue to raise awareness and understanding of processes of globalisation and international development. |
£199,950 |
3 years |
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Gaining Authority: Promoting global citizenship with Derby City Education Service through the connected communities of Kapurthala, India and Derby, UK. |
£111,286 |
3 years |
|
Schools Development Awareness Programme: The project will reach out to over 3000 schools and 100 trainee teachers in London aiming to work in-depth, personally and pro-actively with 105 schools to raise the level of awareness of development issues for children, trainee teachers and schools. |
£70,000 |
3 years |
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Foundation Food & Freedom: To support an approach within formal education that develops a thoughtful and critical response to complex development issues and builds support for strategies that fight disadvantage in developing countries and elsewhere. |
£193,600 |
2 years |
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Global Teachers Programme: To raise awareness of African development issues within the UK, particularly through the provision of global education schools & to increase the number of successful and sustainable North-South School Partnerships |
£153,000 |
3 years |
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School-to-School Peer Education and the Global Dimension: This project will pilot innovative methods of delivering Global Dimension. |
£180,000 |
3 years |
Getting it Sust - Trading with a Conscience: Engage with local business communities, the local authority and civic organisations in creating a forum which will serve to promote the understanding & practice of sustainable development |
£60,000 |
2 years |
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Linking Lives: To promote understanding of Southern/Northern perspectives, development issues, interdependence and global citizenship amongst pupils, teachers, student teachers and the wider school community in the twinned cities of Nottingham & Harare. |
£126,000 |
2 years |
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Developing local Partnerships for Global Events: To enable & empower local community groups, volunteers and others to deliver a range of development awareness events, and activities for people living locally and regionally, many of whom otherwise might be unaware of key development issues. |
£200,100 |
3 years |
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Regional Educational Link between schools in Oxfordshire & schools in Uganda: To establish & nurture a global citizenship agenda across both the primary & secondary curricula. Create a learning partnership of Oxfordshire & Ugandan schools with potential to impact on the lives of all teachers, pupils and communities involved. |
£98,300 |
2 years |
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Development Education in Higher Education: To enrich higher education courses with a global dimension through developing & disseminating a greater awareness of current good practice, and engaging discipline, institutional and departmental gatekeepers in support of global perspectives in higher education. |
£86,000 |
1 year |
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Diversity & Dialogue: Developing the motivation, skills and confidence of communities to engage with global issues such as attaining the MDGs by explicitly recognising, valuing & drawing on the diversity of UK society. |
£131,366 |
2 years |
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Teachers Doing it for Themselves: Objective within this project is to promote the global dimension through peer continuing professional development and education. |
£95,102 |
2 years |
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Raising Global Awareness through the Arts: To encourage young people in Scottish schools to reflect on global interdependence - particularly in the agriculture sector, and on how choices they make both mow and in the future can affect the lives of people overseas. |
£66,819 |
3 years |
Africa Centre