Advocacy and policy dialogue at national level on development education

Seminar for NGDO Platforms of New Member States

Budapest, 9-10th March 2006

Rilli Lappalainen

Secretary General of KEHYS/

Finnish NGDO platform to the EU

President of Development Education Forum

rilli.lappalainen@kehys.fi

Advocacy, important part of NGO work

Current examples from Finnish case

• Development Policy 2004• School curriculum 2004• 0,7% campaing (again) 2006• National strategy

A proposal for national global education strategy

Background:

- Request from ngos for years- Peer-review evaluation made by North-South

Centre- DE conference in Brussels May 2005

Working group

• Nominated by ministry of education• Representatives from ministry of education,

national board of education, ministry for foreign affairs, teachers union, NGOs, university of Oulu, private sector

• Time: August 2005 – January 2006 • Proposal to minister of education on 30th

January 2006

Consultations

• www-consultations by MFA• NGO-seminar by Finnish platform• Large expert seminar by working group• GENE-network meeting

Aims (1)

• A) include the global education viewpoint in major education, science and cultural policy and social policy decisions

• B) step up the implementation of global education in practice in early childhood education, at school, in other educational institutions and in teacher training

• C) increase support for civic organisations and other civil society players as providers of global education

• D) support research and higher education in global education

Aims (2)

• E) reinforce partnership between the public administration, business, the media, civic organisations and other civil society players

• F) monitor systematically and analyse the results achieved in global education in Finland through procedures created for assessing its quality and effectiveness

• G) allocate more resources for the development, promotion and diffusion of global education.

ProposalsA) include the global education viewpoint in

major education, science and cultural policy and social policy decisions:

The programme of the next government in Finland must include a policy programme for "Globalisation and global responsibility".

• This global education programme will inform the youth policy development programme to be put in place under the new Youth Act.

• MFA and MoE will establish a group to monitor the progress, activities and prerequisites of global education in Finland. The group will represent major stakeholders and collect evaluation findings and feedback and channel them into a force for development and change.

C) increase support for civic organisations and other civil society players as providers of global

education

– The activities of the global education network of civic organisations (www.kansainvalisyyskasvatus.net) will be supported and its continuity will be safeguarded by means of sustainable core funding.

– The global education network and local authorities/schools will collaborate to create a set of quality criteria for cooperation between schools and organisations. When the indicators and their criteria are ready, it would be useful to assess current activities and on this basis suggest improvements.

– Measures will be taken to promote the integration of global education into the activities of sports clubs. The aim is to widen the range of target groups in global education.

F) monitor systematically and analyse the results achieved in global education in Finland through procedures created for assessing its quality and

effectiveness

• Expert databank: Measures will be taken to identify and compile information for schools about players in global education, including those whose expertise has not yet been put to full use. These include immigrants and experts with long experience of development cooperation.

• Quality assessment: Measures will be taken to develop quality assessment with a view to providing teachers, schools and civic organisations with tools for evaluating their global education.

Indicators and practices will be developed for peer reviews. • The implementation of this action programme will be reviewed in

2010.

G) allocate more resources for the development, promotion and diffusion of global education

• Cross-sectoral cooperation: The different support schemes administered by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Labour, the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of the Interior must be reviewed and analysed with a view to cooperation between different administrative sectors, coordination of different support schemes and effective use of resources; and financing should be reserved for this cross-sectoral cooperation.

• Civic organisations: Financing allocated to civic organisations for global education will be increased and developed along the lines described above. The financing must make long-term projects (2-3 years) possible in order to achieve real educational effect and sustainability and secure resources for projects found to be effective and enable them to be further developed. The financing will include funds for creating international contacts and preparing collaborative international projects. The possibility of integrating global education into development cooperation projects in the South will be explored.

• Evaluation: Sufficient resources will be reserved for developing competence in evaluating global education and for external evaluations.

What next ?

• MoE has a leading role • MFA will change information budgetline

and increase funds for NGOs• NGOs continue lobbying

• DE conference in Helsinki on July 2006