Every month we comment on some global events and try to give you a development education perspective.

Looking at the occupy movements that are currently spreading over the Western world development educators could say:  “Is this not exactly what we have put into hundreds of funding applications and strategic plans as one of our main aims: Young active citizens acting for change. So let’s go home and celebrate the impact that we had and celebrate our success!” Well, there is a slight problem with the latter as it seems that the occupy movements happened without us and the work that we have been doing in development educators over the last decades.

The debate on possible scenarios for a framework for international development and poverty reduction for the time after the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015 is well underway.  There are mainly three suggestions on the table so far: More of the same (extended deadlines for the same goals), MDG+ (some core goals with additional goals decided at local level) or an One World or Millennium approach (for more info on this see the IDEA article LINK).