Details
about the Learning Africa website
Site sponsors
A consortium of
organisations and critical readers, coordinated by the Development
Education Association (DEA), has developed the series
of posters, online classroom activities and case studies
available through this site. These resources are based on the issues
and recommendations highlighted in Our Common Interest, the
report by the Commission for Africa. A guide to what the Our Common
Interest report says has also been produced in
an easy-to-read format with the support of the
Secretariat. This booklet is available through this site. Click
here
for details.
The Commission for Africa
The
Commission for Africa was set up in 2004. The members of the
Commission - 17 politicians, activists and business people from Africa
and rich countries - wanted
to look in detail at all the work that has been done on Africa in the
past, to try to find out what hasn’t been going right in Africa,
why there have been problems, and what the answers could be. Their
report, Our Common Interest, was published on 11 March
2005.
The Commission makes many proposals for governments and ordinary people,
both in Africa and in rich countries. To support teachers and young
people in the UK to explore the issues and challenges raised by the
Commission’s work, the Secretariat have supported a development
education initiative by a consortium of organisations led by the DEA
(see below).
If you have any questions about the work of the Commission for Africa
that are not covered by the Commission’s website please contact
the Secretariat
Address:
The Secretariat to the Commission for Africa
20 Victoria Street
London SW1H ONF
email: Africa_Secretariat@dfid.gov.uk
tel 020 7023 0000 (switchboard)
fax 020 7023 1850
Development Education Association
The Development Education
Association promotes the global
dimension to learning in England. The DEA also
supports its 240 member and partner organisations as key players in
local, regional and national learning strategies. Their work focuses
on the following three inter-related aims:
• Securing ownership of development education
• Engaging wider society in development education
• Promoting quality and learning in development education.
In working towards these aims DEA develops programmes that enable,
support and build on member's engagement within schools, youth work,
adult, community and further education and higher education sectors.
Conserve Africa
Conserve Africa is
a small charity which aims to promote sustainable development practices,
policies and
strategies in Africa through information dissemination, training, education,
research, advocacy and campaigning. They are a people-focused environmental
organisation that works to advance environmental issues and practices
in Africa in an integrated way that combines natural resources management,
poverty alleviation, environmental conservation and sustainable development.
The organisation participated significantly in the Commission for Africa
consultation process and facilitated the involvement of a wide range
of African voices.
Leeds Development Education Centre
Leeds DEC was
established by Oxfam in 1978 and is one of the UK’s most experienced
and active Development Education Centres (DECs). Their mission statement
is to involve people
in the process of development by raising awareness of personal, local
and global development, developing critical thinking skills and encouraging
involvement in decision making, and promoting positive attitudes and
values and challenging structures that contribute to poverty and inequality.
Leeds DEC has an extensive track record in working with schools and
producing high quality education resources.
Listening to Africa
Listening to Africa
is a group of African educators active within community based NGOs
in London and south east England who work together to provide an African
perspective on development issues for schools and community groups.
Listening to Africa is administered by Reading based NGO Education
for Development. Education for Development (Eddev) is an independent
development charity. They offer training, research and consultancy
in non-formal education and training for adults and children. Established
in 1985, Eddev works alongside those engaged in development programmes,
both overseas and in the UK, to help them to develop their own capacity
to deliver effective, quality development programmes.
To ensure that education materials produced within this initiative
are relevant to school curricula throughout the UK, this project is
advised by colleagues in the following development education networks:
Cyfanfyd in Wales,
IDEAS in Scotland,
and CADA in Northern Ireland
through the Centre for Global Education in Belfast.
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