Organisation

Summary of project

Amount awarded

Period of funding

The Mediae Company

Makutano Junction: Kenyan TV soap opera as a vehicle for development awareness. This three year project aims to enable secondary school students to engage with international development and poverty reduction through the medium of a toolkit produced around a Kenyan television soap opera, Makutano Junction. The project will work with 25 DECs to train teachers in using the series as a jumping off point for activities and learning about development issues; facilitating communication between students in the UK and those in Kenya, analysing and responding to the Kenyan soap opera as well as a British one, and exploring issues of images and perceptions.

£199,153

3 years

The Leprosy Mission

Developing the Global Dimension in Peterborough Primary Schools. This 2 year project aims to build the capacity of 6 primary schools in Peterborough as centres of excellence to integrate the global dimension across the curriculum and the general ethos of schools, and to go on and support and mentor other schools. The aim of the project is to develop capacity of teachers and of local authority staff.

£129,395

2 years

Cheshire Development Education Centre (CDEC)

Warrington and the World - increasing the global dimension in Warrington Primary Schools. The main aim of the project is to raise awareness and understanding of international development issues and build support for development amongst primary schools in Warrington. The project consists of three components. The first two components aim to support schools in teaching and learning about international development. Component 1 - schools are to be recruited as "Project Schools". Component 2 - a resources base is to be set up in the Warrington locality. Component 3 is to share the process and learning of this project with the wider D.E. movement and across the NW region.

£116,777

3 years

Lancashire Global Education

Engaging the Disengaged through Development Education. A three year project seeking to ensure more schools, including Pupil Referral Units, in the North West build development education (DE) into their curriculum and development plans, in a sustainable manner. The aim is for pupils across the North West, including those who are excluded or in danger of being excluded from mainstream education, have the opportunity to understand the importance of poverty reduction, and the relevance of this to their everyday lives.

£184,931

3 years

Development Education in Dorset (DEED)

Networks of Innovation - Nurturing Talent in the First Five Years of Teaching. A three year project seeking to embed the global dimension in Initial and Continuing Professional Development provision for trainees and teachers in the first five years of their teaching career, to raise their awareness of international development issues, including poverty reduction and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.

£176,817

3 years

Groundwork Leeds

Global Footprints Food Trail. This two year project is seeking to increase knowledge and understanding of international development issues to primary school children using the topic of food as a focus: to increase understanding of global food issues and the importance of fair trade to audiences of predominantly white children from low income households in Yorkshire; to train primary school teachers and provide them with material support to deliver development education; to learn lessons from process and disseminate results.

£25,900

2 years

Cooperative College

Food and Development: Education for concerned consumers. This 3 year project aims to create higher levels of awareness about the complex issues in global food chains and their impact on development amongst members in the UK co-operative movement; promoting better informed individual consumer choices and leading to better informed participation and decision making in the democratic structures of co-operatives and in regard to public policy debates. The project will work with the UK co-operative movement and target new members, active members, educators as well as co-operative decision makers, managers and key staff.

£177,000

3 years

The International Development Education Association of Scotland (IDEAS)

Taking a Global Approach to Initial Teacher Education (ITE). This project aims to establish how the principles of education for global citizenship can shape Initial Teacher Education (ITE) in Scotland experience of every teacher trained in Scotland through the opportunities afforded by ACE (A Curriculum for Excellence - the outcome of an education review group which see the purpose of education as enabling young people to become successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors). It also aims to examine what the benefits of such an approach are to the teachers and the students.

£300,000

3 years

Transport and General Workers Union

Organising for International Development. The overall aim of the project is to facilitate a learning process to build a new union-wide international development organising strategy, and integrate development goals within the core of the T&G's organising objectives. Primary objectives include reviewing policies to organise international trade union cooperation in the context of long term trends in the global economy and labour markets; to develop T&Gs capacity to organise in support of international labour standards, decent work and environmental sustainability through collective bargaining; build a new strategic plan for T&Gs international development cooperation with partners in developing countries; and to organise practical solidarity support for marginalised, poor and vulnerable workers.

£192,600

3 years

Marie Stopes International

Promoting development awareness in the UK: Guardian New Development Journalist Competition. A nine-month project to create a competition designed to encourage new and existing journalists to write about international development issues, which are proposed by the consortium partners. The initiative will highlight global challenges to achieving the MDGs through the implementation of a national New Development Journalist Competition programme. The Guardian will publish two supplements in a national newspaper based on the Competition finalists' articles on a diverse range of development issues affecting developing countries. Additional article submissions will be published on the Guardian Unlimited website. Advocacy activity by the general public with members of the UK and European parliaments will be promoted through publication of advocacy packs and website development.

£100,000

1 year

Scottish Education and Action for Development

The Global Community Challenge: Switch on to Climate Change. This two year project aims to raise awareness among adults in Scotland about climate change and its negative impact on global poverty. It will do this by building a well-informed, globally aware and proactive society that takes responsibility for its own impact on the environment and on the world as a whole. It is aimed at adults in the non-formal sector in communities around Scotland. Based on a pilot that has already been undertaken, it aims to run up to 50 workshops a year with a diverse range of groups to inform them about climate change, to make the links with groups in other countries combating climate change and to help them to identify solutions at governmental and individual level.

£58,688

2 years

Global Education  Derby

Frameworks for Global Citizenship. This project has as its focus the (DfES funded) International School Awards (ISA) as a vehicle for embedding citizenship education as part of the the school ethos. It aims at developing the skills of teachers and educational frameworks to enhance whole school global citizenship programmes within secondary schools. This project will work with schools to achieve the ISA through a focus on world development issues and links with schools in the South.

£90,011

3 years

The Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS)

The Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS). Project for the Promotion of Understanding of Africa in Leeds Schools. The project aims at using African students as resource persons to raise the level of knowledge in young people in Leeds schools about Africa, its development needs and the ways pupils can relate to, and impact on, African poverty reduction. The students will be trained to deliver sessions on African-related issues targeting specific curriculum areas.

£63,550

3 years

War Child UK

www.warchildSpace.com  The aim of this project is to promote a deep understanding and ongoing concern among UK students about the needs of people living with conflict-related poverty, and what role they can play in helping those people to address their circumstances. This will be done by working with a number of schools with a chief focus on using ICTs to communicate school activity around the issues of conflict-related poverty, how this fundamentally a part of the achievement of the MDGs, and the role citizenship plays in addressing it.

£130,179

3 year

Workers Educational Association

Out of Africa. The main aim of this 3 year project is to create an informed and dynamic understanding of the lives of people in developing African countries, through an exploration of environmental, social, economic, political, cultural and other circumstances that have created societies where the opportunities for safe, secure and stable lives are severely restricted or non-existent. Illustrative examples of these African countries include Congo Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ivory Coast, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe.This will be achieved by developing and delivering a series of powerful, innovative and informal 'performance-based' one-day development education sessions for trade unionists and adults in disadvantaged communities in the West Midlands.

£114,291

3 years

Tzedek

Development Education in Jewish Schools, Youth Movements and Synagogues (DejSyms). The project will increase awareness, knowledge and understanding of sustainable development, global interdependence and the poverty reduction agenda both in children and young people in the Jewish community and in Jewish schools, religion schools and youth movements. The outcomes will include changes in attitudes and behaviours at an individual and communal level. Building upon its existing networks, Tzedek will establish and lead a coalition of educators and education institutions across the UK Jewish community and build twinning links with partner communities in the majority world.

£156,300

3 years

Cumbria Development Education Centre

Get Global in Cumbria - Introducing Critical Global Awareness in 'hard-to-reach' schools. The aim of this project is to introduce a critical awareness of global citizenship and development issues among the staff and students of 'hard-to-reach' schools in Cumbria, in order to embed Global Citizenship education into schools' overall broad curriculum and consistent with the 'Every Child Matters' (ECM) agenda. The challenge of this project is to move development education provision beyond those schools with an existing commitment to this agenda, and to find meaningful ways for 'hard to reach' schools to see that global and development education can add value to the school's own education agenda - that global education is good education.

£163,140

3 years

Northern College

Development Education for Community Activist Learners. The purpose of the project is to build support for international development amongst our students and the communities in which they work and live, and to understand the values challenges and opportunities of international development as well as strengthen the advocacy skills for promoting international development. The underlying ethos of the project is to examine development issues and to understand different perspectives, arguments and world views in the belief that a deeper understanding of international development and its values will produce a long term active commitment.

£168,951

2 years

Liverpool Hope University/Hope One World, HOW/Merseyside Window on the World (DEC)

Developing Active Global Learners and embedding the Global Dimension at Liverpool Hope University. The overall aim of the project is to create sustainable processes and structures that will raise awareness of development issues both within the university, partnership schools and across the region. This will occur through a dynamic partnership between Hope One World, The Deanery of Education and the DEC based at Liverpool Hope University (LHU). The project aims to enhance teaching and learning about development through work with a number of partners in the Merseyside Region. Hope One World (HOW) is LHU's overseas education charity. The project aims to develop and draw upon the expertise of those (both staff and students) who have worked on HOW overseas projects to be dynamic hubs for global learning both within the university and the region.

£136,651

3 years

Engineers without borders UK (EWB-UK)

Development Awareness for Engineering Students Through Training and Research. A three year project seeking to broaden awareness and deepen understanding of the major challenges and prospects for international development among engineering students and young graduates and, by extension, the wider university community. The project will explore the role and limitations of technology in meeting the Millennium Development Goals; the role of the engineer in the context of global interdependence; and the wider issues relating to poverty reduction in developing countries to build, co-ordinate and establish a network of development practitioners, academics and students, and to broker effective partnerships between members of the network.

£200,959

3 years

Y Care International

Youth Workers Network. The project aims to make global youth work a core activity of YMCA youth work in the United Kingdom by developing and expanding Y Care International's Youth Workers Network, the first initiative of its kind in the UK, which builds youth workers' capacity to deliver global youth work via training and support. The project will build the capacity of youth workers in YMCAs in the UK to deliver global youth work projects to the marginalised and socially excluded young people that they work with. Increase youth workers' knowledge of international development issues including poverty reduction and the links between these issues and those that affect the lives of the young people they work wit. Enable young people in YMCAs to develop their understanding of development and poverty issues and the roles they can play, and take appropriate action and motivate YMCAs across the UK to formally adopt global youth work as a core part of their youth work strategy, policy and programmes and to promote membership of the Youth Worker's Network.

£135,500

3 years

CUTS LRC

Soho to Soweto" - 5 dates to connect you to today's development issues. The project aim is to increase the understanding and commitment of the UK public to international development issues and to empower people to take action in support of these efforts. The project will organise a series of public debates on relevant development topics (for up to 150 people each), using a "question time" format, including expert speakers from the world of international development. Proceedings and related resources will then be disseminated as DVDs and educational packs to the educational sector, and an e-discussion room hosted on the CUTS London website will be created following the events to allow wider discussion of the issues, and provide access to relevant further information sources and events.

£33,188

1 year

Groundwork Manchester Salford and Trafford

UK Communities for Global Action – Salford. A three year project seeking to generate understanding and support for international development issues particularly global poverty, resettlement, environmental sustainability and social exclusion through the engagement of disadvantaged communities in Salford by using locally important issues as a starting point to educate, challenge perceptions and encourage positive and sustainable action. A further aim is to embed this awareness into mainstream development structures to achieve sustainability.

£90,363

3 years

Ymlaen Ceredigion Cyf

Sustainability Skills for Global Interdependent Living. The aim in this proposal is to initiate partnerships between colleges and local support organisations throughout Wales in order to embed Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship (ESDGC) in the FE curriculum. The project builds on pilot work that has been carried out on the Cardigan Campus of Oleg Ceredigion, which will now be widened to include the Aberystwyth Campus.

£112,697

3 years

Manchester Development Education Project

Primary to Secondary School Transition and the Global Dimension. The aim of the project is to enable schools to address issues of transition from primary to secondary school using the global dimension and peer education as the vehicle for achieving this. It will work with two clusters of schools, consisting of a secondary and two key primary feeder schools. The project will develop linked primary-secondary education and activity plans focused on the global dimension and the schools transition arrangements. The project will train secondary schools students (Year 7) to run the 'Games We Play' with primary school students.

£168,753

3 years

Leeds Development Education Centre

Making a positive contribution - an education programme to support achievement of the Millennium Goals. The project aims to develop greater awareness, knowledge and understanding among young people in the UK about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in particular the progress that has been made in meeting them and what still needs to be achieved, and action that is possible; to encourage young people to take action with the local communities, policymakers, business leaders and the public in support of the MDGs.

£25,740

3 years

Anti - Slavery International

Forced Labour and Development. The project proposes using the bicentenary of the abolition of slavery as a platform from which to raise awareness among the public about contemporary forced labour and slavery (e.g. bonded labour, child labour, commercial sexual exploitation), as well as the linkages between poverty, labour exploitation and the consequences for poverty-targeted development. The key target groups for this project are the business and trade union sectors.

£177,129

3 years

Mundi Global Education Centre

Me, My Community and My World: Developing global Learners in the Early Years. This three-year project aims to promote an understanding and awareness of global and local perspectives, interdependence and development issues amongst Early Years Practitioners and Specialist Teachers, parents, Local Authority and NGO advisors and policy makers in Nottinghamshire. It will promote the application of this understanding to prepare young children for life as global citizens with positive attitudes towards diversity in a rapidly changing interdependent world. The project will develop around the topics of food, homes, music, stories, rhymes and songs, dance, celebrations and clothes.

£199,964

3 years