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Creatively Engaging Young People in Social Justice Issues

joint webinar with the NYCI.

he inspiring Barefeet Theatre Company who are based in Zambia work with at-risk children and young people. They empower them to become story tellers and performers. In this webinar members of the theatre company tell the story of its work, describe its impact and share their methods.

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Policy and Advocacy Learning Programme

This Trócaire-funded blended learning programme for IDEA members that aimed to increase members' capacity to influence policy that affects the development education sector. Below you will find two webinars that formed part of the learning programme.

8th May 2013

Gerasimos from Action Aid in Greece talks through the Development Education Advocacy Toolkit produced by DEEEP.

 

22 May 2013

INTRAC input on advocacy

 

“Post 2015” Webinar Series

IDEA ran an online webinar series in Autumn 2013, particularly focusing on  issues relating to the post-2015 development framework process.

The High Level Panel Report on the post-2015 Development Agenda: What it’s all about, and is it anything new?

Speaker: Lysa John, Outreach Officer of the UN HLP secretariat 

Lysa gave us an overview of the new HLP report, A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development.  She focused on the ‘five big transformative shifts’ outlined in the report and explored the role of Civil Society in translating these changes into action.

To kick-start your thinking on this topic, please watch this two-minute video: http://www.post2015hlp.org/inourhands/

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Listen to the webinar discussion here (Recording starts at 1.06)

 

Knowledge from Experience: Building the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda with People Living in Extreme Poverty

Speaker: Brendan Coyne, ATD Fourth World

ATD Fourth World, is an international NGO which seeks to find solutions to extreme poverty. Brendan recently completed a two year project working with people living in extreme poverty in 12 different countries to evaluate the effectiveness of the current MDGs and to create recommendations for the post-2015 development agenda. Brendan described the consultation process of the project and took us through the key points emerging out of the work. 

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Decent Work as a Development Goal, 1st October, 2013

Speaker, David Joyce, Irish Congress of Trade Unions.
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Education for Sustainable Development, 23rd September, 2013

Speakers:

Professor Daniella Tilbury , Chair of the UNESCO's Global Monitoring and Evaluation Expert's Group, which advises on the assessment of global progress during the UN Decade in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
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Mags Liddy , Ubuntu Network and University of Limerick
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Integrating the Poverty and Sustainability Agendas in the Post 2015 Process

The final webinar in IDEA's “Post 2015” Webinar series was held on Tuesday 3rd Dec. Cliona Sharkey, Policy and Advocacy Officer with Trócaire delivered a very interesting and accessible presentation on Integrating the Poverty and Sustainability Agendas in the Post 2015 Process. A lively question and answer session followed.

Listen back to the recorded webinar (including Q&A) here:

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September 26, 2025
Date: Tuesday, 04 November, from 3.30–4.30pm Location: Online via Zoom IDEA is thrilled to invite members to the online launch of our new “Theory of Impact for Global Citizenship Education” on Tuesday, 04 November, from 3.30–4.30pm, Online via Zoom. During this session, we will present the model, share insights into the process behind its development, and explore how it will be used to strengthen impact across the sector. We will also introduce a new tool in progress, an interactive data visualisation map designed to showcase our collective impact as a network. For many years, IDEA and its members have been grappling with the concept of impact in Development Education/Global Citizenship Education (hereinafter ‘GCE’). As GCE practitioners, tracking impact helps us to identify how, where and with whom our work is creating positive change, as well as investigating areas in which our impact could be stronger. Furthermore, we can also benefit from examining the collective impact of GCE carried out by the wide-ranging work of IDEA members, and from exploring how these impacts contribute to the major social changes to which the GCE community aspires. Driven therefore by the need to understand how projects and programmes are collectively “making a difference” in IDEA we looked at models that could help us visualise and capture GCE “impact networks”. We formulated our vision of impact and then a theory of how we expect this desired impact to be achieved to allow us to map our activities and collect data to corroborate that theory. This Theory of Impact model is how we hope to illustrate this complex GCE impact network. Building on work done by IDEA over many years including building sectoral capacity in using Results Frameworks for GCE, our Quality & Impact working group, engagement with Irish Aid on their Performance Measurement Framework (PMF), and the successful roll-out of a Code of Good Practice for DE/GCE, this Theory of Impact represent the next stage of our effort to ‘develop a consistent approach to measuring impact among the sector’. We are therefore thrilled to invite you to the presentation of our ‘Theory of Impact for GCE’. At this online presentation, we will tell you about the process that led to the creation of this model, how it will be used and what we hope it could bring to the sector. We will also touch on a new tool being developed based on the model, which should allow the creation of an interactive data visualisation map of our collective impact as a network. Join us as we launch into this exciting new phase of our Impact Measurement work. Join us as we begin this exciting new phase of our Impact Measurement work. Register below!
September 26, 2025
Date: 11 November, 10.30am – 4.30pm. Location: IDEA offices, 6 Gardiner Row IDEA launched its new Advocacy Toolkit and GCE Policy Guide resource pack in early March. The advocacy toolkit and policy guide were developed for IDEA members to strengthen their capacity to effectively advocate with policymakers and to actively engage in policy processes on GCE in Ireland and the wider world. IDEA will facilitate a full-day in-person workshop on these resources in the IDEA offices on Tuesday, 11 November ,10.30am – 4.30pm. Places are limited to 20 participants and will be given on a first come, first served basis. Please note that this is a repeat of the workshop that took place in May and is aimed at members who did not have the opportunity to participate in May. A vegetarian lunch will be provided. Register below!
September 26, 2025
Date: 06 November a nd 18 November from 3.30–4.30pm Location: IDEA offices, 6 Gardiner Row, Dublin 1 Due to positive feedback following a workshop during our annual conference, we are thrilled to invite members to a full 2-part interactive workshop about “Racial Justice” on 06 November and 18 November. This event will take place in-person in Dublin. Our facilitators Bronwyn April and Mdahyelya Bassi will guide participants through a critical exploration of the interconnections between racial justice, philanthropy, migration, and decolonisation within global and Irish contexts. The workshop will delve into how historical and ongoing colonial legacies influence contemporary issues of racial equity and social justice in Ireland and beyond. The dates for this event are fast approaching, so if you have any specific accessibility requirements, please email events@ideaonline.ie as soon as possible. Places for this event are limited, and registration is mandatory. Deadline to register is Monday, 04 November. Register below!