What are we doing to tackle world poverty?

The Centre for Global Development though Education is based at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. It the first of its kind in Ireland funded by Irish Aid, a division of the Department of Foreign Affairs.

The aim of the Centre is to contribute to poverty reduction by enhancing the quality of basic education through capacity building in teacher education. The institutional members of the Centre represent teacher educators, associated researchers and NGOs from the island of Ireland as well as Africa.

The Centre’s Southern partners play an active role in the development of the Centre’s work programmes. Currently the Centre works with Uganda and Lesotho but this will extend to other African countries in the future.