How to convince decision makers to support development education? The brand new Development Education (DE) Advocacy Toolkit, published by DEEEP, the Development Education Exchange in Europe Project, provides solid arguments and strategic advice on how to promote development education towards politicians, state authorities and within civil society organisations.
It consists of three parts:
• Arguments recalls the definition of development education and its relation to other fields like global learning or citizenship education. It outlines in eight arguments why development education is important and provides links to more detailed background information. Furthermore, it gives an overview on the situation of global education strategies and funding in Europe.
• Methods is a training module on advocacy strategy planning, including tips for successful lobbying and practical advice on meeting with decision makers.
• Examples shows three successful advocacy processes which led to better recognition of development education: The European multi stakeholder process, the way towards a national DE strategy in Spain and the strengthened support of the Polish government for DE.
The toolkit will be updated regularly in order to include latest data and evidence. You can download it for free from the DEEEP website: http://www.deeep.org/advocacytoolkit.html
For further information, contact: Tobias Troll, DEEEP Advocacy officer, at t.troll@deeep.org
Source: DE Times-October 2008, http://www.deeep.org/
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