Sections:

Development Awareness Fund

List of Projects Approved 2006/07

Organisation

Brief Summary of project

Amount awarded

Period of funding

External linkInstitute of Education- University of London

Building academic support & Understanding of Development Education: To embed development education within mainstream education, policy and research to ensure long-term impact.

£246,561

3 years

External linkGlobal Education Derby

Green Flag for Development: To encourage the continuing incorporation of global development issues into the school by adding value to existing and proposed ESD and environmental management programmes used by schools across England

£62,640

3 years

External linkTeesside One World Centre (TOWC)

RAPT: Refugee Action Project Teeside: To raise awareness amongst young people of the causes and consequences of individuals becoming refugees in terms of development, so that young people can take informed action as responsible global citizens

£90,277

3 years

External linkMarlborough Brandt Group including Wiltshire Global Education Centre

Putting the World into Wiltshire Schools: This project aims to embed sustainable global dimension ideals and activities in the development plans, curricula and ethos of Wiltshire schools by engaging governors and senior management teams and working with teaching training institutions

£88,080

3 years

External linkNorfolk Education and Action for Development (NEAD)

Global Messengers: The main aim of the project is to get the message of the need for poverty elimination to a much wider audience. By building the capacity of the education community, using key multipliers (LEA advisers, ASTs and ITT tutors) this message will be understood and enacted in many more schools in our local area.

£119,100

3 years

External linkUniversity of Ulster (UU), UNESCO Centre, School of Education

University of Ulster - Establishment of an International Development Unit: To locate international development as a visible, core commitment of the University of Ulster through the establishment of an international development unit based initially at the University of Ulster, Coleraine

£299,613

3 years

External linkLearning Institute

Every Child Matters - The Global Dimension: Aim to have a deep and long-lasting effect on the understanding of development and poverty reduction issues through training new, and serving, teachers as advocates for poverty reduction. Help meet South West EES aims of influencing key decision and curriculum policy makers in teaching by establishing poverty reduction as a key part of initial teacher training linked to training in citizenship.

£290,000

3 years

External linkYoung Co-operatives

Young Co-operatives: The aim of the project is to help young people learn about the difference that fair trade makes and how they can actually make the difference. The young people (aged 113-18) will set up their own co-operative business selling only fair traded products.

£120,462

3 years

External linkThe Fairtrade Foundation (on behalf of a wider Fairtrade Schools Consortium)

Fairtrade Schools: The programme will deliver a nationally co-ordinated Fairtrade Schools award scheme, implemented locally, regionally and UK wide from primary to sixth form

£240,356

2 years

External linkPestalozzi International Development Education Centre

Globetrotters After-School Club: To promote understanding of low-income countries and raise awareness of global development issues along with our global interdependence and to look at the effects that this interdependence has on poverty. To show how individuals, organisations and institutions can make a difference to reducing poverty by being responsible global citizens through enlightened choices. The project is aimed at schools and teachers to support the "Extended Schools" initiative set by the Government

£79,655

3 years

External linkMercy Corps Scotland

World citizens: A partnership approach in supporting teachers' learning in global citizenship: To empower young people in Scotland to become active and aware citizens, committed to shaping a fairer world for all.. Aims to bridge the gap identified by UK teachers through a mix of targeted teacher training and by providing active links to governance projects abroad

£99,506

2 years

External linkReading International Solidarity Centre (RISC)

Measuring Attitudinal Change in School: To develop and disseminate an effective methodology for measuring attitudinal change arising from global dimension work within schools.

£60,102

3 years

External linkVillage Aid

World Class Act: The aim of the project is to engage young people in Derbyshire with a new awareness and understanding of, and empathy towards, the issues of world poverty, and to empower them through the use of drama to be active change makers and campaigners for global poverty reduction into adult life.

£47,727

3 years

External linkEngineers against poverty (EAP) led consortium

Promoting Development Awareness through dialogue and partnership exploration -UK Engineering Higher Education: To facilitate greater dialogue, understanding and collaboration amongst the key stakeholders in order to promote the inclusion of global perspectives within the curricula and learning of UK based engineering undergraduates.

£60,350

1 year

External linkCAMFED International

Diverse World - developing joined up strategies for Global Citizenship: To deliver enhanced teacher training and support in global citizenship, within a framework of race equality, through a coalition of education institutions.

£292,973

3 years

External linkGlobal Education Derby

Through Others Eyes - Learning to read the World: To develop an instruction design and methodlogy to support trainee teachers and teachers in understanding the cultural logics (systems of meaning and representation) of specific indigenous groups in order to enable them to read how these groups interpret issues related to development, poverty eradication and their relationship with the environment.

£178,420

3 years

External linkTide (Teachers in Development Education)

Quality Global Learning - and School Leadership: To enable creative exchange between key educational practitioners about quality learning and leadership strategies in the context of an increasingly globalised society and to make strategic use of the outcome of that work

£195,000

3 years

External linkLink Community Development

Links School Programme: The Link Schools Programme (LSP) provides a unique model for professionally and practically supported North-South school partnerships. This proposal contains objectives and activities to both widen the scope and reach of the LSP and to raise the quality and sustainability of impact

£200,000

2 years

External linkStudents Partnership Worldwide

Making Development Real: Engaging young in the UK through youth to youth education: Raise awareness with 96,000 young people exploring the causes of poverty with a specific focus on HIV and AIDS and youth led solutions - through school level and individual youth level.

£92,475

3 years

External linkManchester Development Education Project - Manchester Metropolitan University

Partnership Schools and the Global Dimension: Enhance the ability of teachers to address the "global dimension" in the classroom. Develop a supportive environment for teachers/trainees to enable the GD to be taught during their training/first employment

£174,000

3 years

External linkMusic for Change

World Music Matters: To embed the principles and practices of Building Support for Development and EES through the formal education sector in order to create a more tolerant, active and socially aware society which works towards the reduction of poverty across the world.

£184,550

3 years

External linkScotdec (Scottish Development Education Centre)

Global Health, Global Learning - Making the Links: To increase awareness and understanding of the links between health and poverty and the health issues which affect young people locally and globally. Learning from strategies that educators in the South have developed to health education

£195,000

3 years

External linkCheshire DEC

MDG - Working with Cheshire Schools: To raise awareness & understanding of the MDGs and build support for development amongst schools in Cheshire

£159,570

3 years

External linkDevelopment Education Centre (South Yorkshire) (DECSY)

Gold Star Cafe "One World Zone": using an on-line learning community as a medium for development education: Recognising the growing usage of the internet by young people as a source of information on development countries, this project aims to use an existing, successful on-line learning community as a medium to build support for international development among 11-14 year olds in the UK

£297,271

3 years

External linkGlobal Link DEC

Bringing the Millennium Development Goals into the Classroom: Aim of the project is to increase support in the North West, particularly Lancashire, for the Millennium Development Goals

£84,297

3 years

External linkInternational Federation of Workers' Education Associations (IFWEA)

Informal Economy Workers' Rights: To build support among British trade unions and their members for the effective democratic organisation and representation of informal economy workers in developing countries

£99,920

2 years

External linkHindu Aid

Development Awareness Networking Agenda (DANA): To deliver a sustained and participatory development education programme to the British Hindu community and increase knowledge about global poverty, the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), global interdependence and the plight of developing countries.

£144,464

2 years

External linkVETAID

Millennium Goal Keepers: Aims to establish, in Scottish primary seven pupils (age 11), a dedication to playing their part in achieving the international MFG'S. Focusing on poverty reduction, environmental sustainability and food security, project will support schools who had little or no development education and will also help develop teachers capacity to include global dev ed in their teaching.

£36,447

2 years

External linkGroundwork West London

Global Waters: Three year development education programme working with secondary schools local to the Grand Union Canal in West London. Raise awareness and understanding of global development issues and interdependence linked to poverty in developing countries.

£96,450

3 years

External linkMinorities of Europe (MoE)

Active for Change: Young people making a difference here, back home and across the world

£235,000

3 years

External linkDevon Development Education (DDE)

Coping with Conflict: To promote informed action in support of international efforts to reduce poverty by understanding how conflict affects development, through a process of reflective dialogue with people coping in conflict situations. Working with a group of teachers, who teach KS4 Citizenship to develop a framework to explore the impact of living in a conflict situation

£114,620

3 years

External linkManchester Environmental Resource Centre Initiative (MERCi)

Food Cycle: To promote greater awareness, understanding and positive action towards a more sustainable food cycle.

£169,355

3 years



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