IDEA Winter Events

November

Tuesday 11th 1pm – 2pm: Strategic Planning Follow-up Webinar . This is a follow-up discussion for attendees of our October workshop on Revitalising Your Strategic Plan with Sandra Velthuis of Whitebarn Consulting.

Thursday 13th 2 – 4pm: Irish Aid Annual Grants Round: Application Writing Clinic . You must email Susan Gallwey to receive the link to join this webinar.

Tuesday 18th 10am – 2pm: Freelancing in Development Education . Are you a freelance educator looking for work in the Development Education sector? This is a practical half-day workshop that will look at responding to tenders and marketing yourself online.  Read more…

Thursday 20th 12noon – 1pm: First in our Winter Webinar Series Social Economy and Global Development Post 2015 : John Restakis, author of  Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital. Tune in to the webinar to find out more about how co-operatives are transforming lives and communities around the world, by creating models for economic and social development that can offer a more equitable, just and humane future.  Read more…

Thursday 27th 12noon – 1pm: Second in our Winter Webinar Series Social Economy and Global Development Post 2015 : The Role of MicroFinance in Global Sustainable Development with The Irish League of Credit Unions Foundation. Read more… 

December

Tuesday 2nd 12noon – 1pm: Third in our Winter Webinar Series Social Economy and Global Development Post 2015 : Surfing the Waves of Change: 21st Century Competencies for making the Transition to a Collaborative Economy and a Low carbon Futurewith Davie Philip plus Ana Huertes. Read more…

Wednesday 3rd: A Shared Vision for Development Education in Ireland . The aim of this event is to produce an agreed vision for the development education sector in Ireland. This is YOUR chance to shape the vision for development education in Ireland so please attend. The Vision will also influence IDEA's direction as an organisation and Irish Aid's Strategy for Development Education. Read more…

Saturday 13th 11am – 4pm: How to Make Your Campaign Really Fly! This workshop is for anyone who would cares passionately about an issue and would like to get a campaign off the ground, but is not sure about what needs to be done before ‘going public’.  This workshop will focus on the question: How we can effectively inspire people to take action in favour of our cause? Facilitator: Siobhán O’ Donoghue has been a community worker and social justice activist for many years. She is a former Director of the Migrant Rights Centre and is now Director of Uplift , a community of people taking coordinated action for progressive change in Ireland. Read more…

Tuesday 9th 2pm- 4pm: Preparing for 2015: The Role of Development Education with Danny Sriskandarajah, Secretary General of CIVICUS.

IDEA and Dóchas are delighted to host a seminar with Dr Danny Sriskandarajah, Secretary General of CIVICUS. For 2015 to truly be a year of transformation, civil society needs to rethink how we engage with citizens and how we engage with politics. Dr Danny Sriskandarajah, Secretary General of CIVICUS, the World Alliance of Citizen Participation, will discuss how Irish civil society can contribute to global transformation in 2015. Read more…

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!