Christian Aid has in the main not become involved in the formal education sector. Instead, Christian Aid and its partners have consistently tried to address the need for education for those outside the school system, excluded due to poverty, marginalisation, gender inequity, age, etc. The talk explored this non-formal sector, and in particular focused on the case of the Sierra Leone programme at present.

Fairtrade, a social, economic and civic empowerment movement, has grown from strength to strength in recent years, both nationally [...]

The theory and principles of Development are the basis on which First World educators approach Third World interventions. However, for smaller NGOs in particular, there is often a different dynamic.

Projects established in Cape Town by Protea Education Development Project have state-of-the-art computer technology at their core. The project include additional support services, such as school feeding programmes, health and intensive ICT programmes.

Gives the audience a sense of the challenges faced by Irish Aid, and Irish Aid’s responses to these diverse challenges.

Cathy looks at some of the evidence for ‘tribes’ in early Irish history in search of an African perspective

Colin Brock examiness the notion of ‘humanitarian’ in relation to educational needs and proposes a holistic response as being one of the functions of education in the developing world.

Mary Kerr will look back at the first year of the ZITEP programme implementation and will explore the nature of partnership and asks whether a partnership can be produced from a blueprint

Focus on the ways in which MIC is moving to further develop the quality and depth of its Africa sending programme (AEEA) for both MIC students and African counterparts

Building Capacity for Educational Research: Opportunities, Constraints and Lessons in the Context of Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda by Dr Mary Goretti Nakabugo