Programme for Strengthening Global Development Education for the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and

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Programme for Strengthening Global Development
Education for the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland
and Slovakia

• Educating for Global Awareness

Supported by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Introduction

• This programme is designed to promote and
  strengthen global developmental education and
  critical public awareness of and public support
  for development cooperation and global solidarity
  in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and
  Slovakia
• With a generous support of the Dutch Ministry of
  Foreign Affairs

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Background

• The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe
  has been working to strengthen global development
  education in European countries including the
  countries of Central and Eastern Europe - since
  1990.

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Background

• The North-South Centres mandate
• to strengthen capacity in global development
  education nationally, through the facilitation of
  multi-lateral learning and strategy sharing

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Purpose of the Programme

• To strengthen the quality and scope of provision
  of global development education in the Czech
  Republic.

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Objectives

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• To contribute to the development and improvement
  of policy and provision of global education in
  the Czech Republic.
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• To stimulate a dialogue among the parliaments,
  governments, local and regional authorities and
  civil society on issues concerning global
  education

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Objectives

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• To strengthen public awareness of, critical
  public engagement with and public opinion
  regarding issues of global interdependence,
  international solidarity and development
  cooperation, through global education.
• To share learning from this programme with other
  interested actors in Europe.

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Partnerships

• The key feature is working through a partnership
  approach.
• The North-South Centre has developed a specific
  quadrilogue approach, which involves
• the government,
• parliamentarians,
• local and regional authorities
• and civil society sectors.

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Funding

• This programme has been funded by the Dutch
  Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Programme Elements

• This programme is comprised of the five following
  elements
• National Seminar for Czech Republic
• Seed Funding for Global Education
• GENE network
• Peer Review
• Global Education Week

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National Seminar on Global Education

• A quadrilogue national consultation process
  involving the key actors in the field of global
  development education.
• Purpose
• to share existing practice
• to consult international good practices
• to debate a national strategy on global
  education

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Seed Funding for Global Education

• A special seed funding for pilot projects in
  global development education
• To be launched in addition to the existing
  funding structures
• Towards the NSC Global Education Week

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GENE Network

• GENE (Global Education Network Europe) brings
  together representatives from MFA and
  practitioners to share structures for the support
  and funding of development education.

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Peer Review

• In consultation with national actors, there is a
  proposal to develop a national Peer Review on
  global education process possibly in 2005 or
  2006.
• This would involve
• participation of a Czech expert on global
  education in peer review of a another country
• peer review of the global education in the Czech
  Republic

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Global Education Week

• Third Week of November
• A intensified week of global educational
  activities by and for schools, NGOs and youth
  organisations and for general public on national,
  regional and local level.

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Contact

• North-South Centre of the Council of Europe
• Avenida da República, 15-41050-185 Lisbon,
  Portugal.Tel [phone]Fax [phone]
  40 37
• www.nscentre.org
• nscentre_at_coe.int
• Liam Wegimont Head of Global Education
  Department
• Miguel da Silva Global Education Week
• Ditta Dolejsiova Programme Coordinator