IDEA Network receives GENE Quality in Global Education Award
The IDEA network received a Global Education Network Europe (GENE) Quality in Global Education Award for the Code of Good Practice for Development Education at a ceremony on 19 May. This was hosted by Chair of GENE, Annette Scheunpflug, with 73 attendees including the Greek Minister for Education, Niki Kerameus, and Áine Doody, Head of Development Education /Global Citizenship, Irish Aid.
47 initiatives were nominated for the award, which was given to 7 Global Education initiatives across Europe. These programmes ranged from a Masters in Global Citizenship Education, to a 'study trip' approach to learn about campaigning on sexual and reproductive health in the Global South, to gathering diverse students and teachers, including Greek and Turkish Cypriots, in the buffer zone in Cyprus to bring about reconciliation.
The Code of Good Practice for Development Education is a trailblazer internationally, providing educators and organisations working in Development Education with a quality framework to strengthen good practice. Key to the award criteria was the active involvement of 'participants', collaboration, learning and networking, all elements that were core to the development and roll-out of the Code.
The IDEA membership began developing this Code 5 years ago, and this award is a wonderful acknowledgement and recognition of their work. The successful roll-out of the Code to date, which has not been disrupted by the challenges posed by Covid-19. highlights the strong commitment to and ownership of the Code by members.
IDEA would like to congratulate all our members whose input and commitment were crucial to the development process and who are now bringing the Code to life. We would particularly like to congratulate and thank Elaine Mahon and Morina O’Neill, for their work on the coordination and development of the Code.
We would like to thank our donors, Irish Aid, Trócaire and Concern, who have supported this initiative. Our strategic partnership with Irish Aid provided us with the time and space to develop the Code. We are grateful to Irish Aid for nominating us for this award.
This is the second Irish initiative to win a GENE Quality in Global Education Award, following WorldWise Global Schools’ win for its Global Passports Award in 2018. WorldWise Global Schools is a member of IDEA.
You can find out more about the Code of Good Practice for Development Education here
We are looking for a consultant to design an interactive data visualisation tool for our Theory of Impact for Global Citizenship Education in Ireland. The consultant will lead the design or tailoring of off-the-shelf survey software and analytics software to our needs, in collaboration with IDEA staff. Please submit a tender including a description of stages in the development process, number of days, expected fee, and experience of relevant personnel for the work to be carried out to anya@ideaonline.ie . The deadline for application is Wednesday, 29 October, 5.00pm. Read the full terms of reference here.
After three remarkable years with IDEA, we are sad to share that Anya Sparynska is moving abroad to begin a new adventure. During her time with us, Anya made an indelible mark - first by shaping a pioneering programme role, and later by guiding us in a capacity development role that strengthened our impact across Ireland’s development education sector. From designing and implementing innovative initiatives to building partnerships and capacity across our member organisations, Anya has left IDEA stronger, more connected, and more ambitious for the future. “I am sad to leave at such a pivotal time in IDEA: we are faced with unspeakable horror, as the need for justice and accountability grows ever more urgent. I have seen, however, our members and staff respond with creativity, humanity and dedication to these challenging times and find inspiration in it, even at this darkest hour. A desire to be close to my family and the pressure of the housing crisis have driven me to Brussels, but I know I will be back as Ireland - it’s passionate, brave and kind people - now feels like home. I will be sure to follow IDEA and our members’ work closely in the coming year and hope to stay in touch! “Working at IDEA has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career. Seeing ideas and passion turn into real impact and change has been incredibly fulfilling - I’ll carry those lessons, and the very special friendships made along the way with me always.”
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 (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!
