NYCI's Development Education Programme is a partnership between NYCI and Irish Aid at the Department of Foreign Affairs.
2015 must be the year the world wakes up and delivers a safer, more just future for children and young people. We all must play our part in ensuring this is the case. Do not let this opportunity go to waste - Malala Yousafzai
On Wednesday, October 8th 2014, the National Youth Council of Ireland held a Roundtable discussion on Development Education (Global Youth Work) and Youth: Young People: Connected, Respected & Empowered.
The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) is delighted to join the United Nations Global Partnership for Youth in the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
NYCI together with its members organisations, will work within the youth, development, and education sectors especially, to ensure young people are provided with the opportunity and actively participate in setting, implementing and evaluating the new development agenda due to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015.
NYCI will use its structures and influence at personal, local, national, and global levels.
Development education in youth work aims to support young people to increase their awareness and understanding of the interdependent and unequal world in which we live, through a process of interactive learning, debate, action and reflection. It challenges perceptions of the world and encourages young people to act for a more just and equal society at a national and an international level.
The European Year for Development is here.
What will be YOUR contribution?
President Michael D. Higgins kicked off the programme of events for the European Year for Development in Ireland on January 22nd where he delivered an inspirational speech: http://www.president.ie/speeches/speech-at-the-irish-launch-of-the-european-year-of-development/
2015 is finally here and what a very important year it promises to be for all of us. Governments the world over will, in September 2015, agree a road map by which all countries and states will work to ensure key issues of global importance are dealt with at a local, national, and global level for the betterment of humanity. The issues include: poverty, hunger, health, education, gender, water, sanitation, energy, industry, sustainable development, environment, climate change, forests, peace, partnership – all issues that concern all of us in different ways.
