Global Development Education at national level

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Global Development Educationat national level

• Ministry of Education Culture
• Republic of Cyprus

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Cyprus context

• Crossroad of civilisations (geographically)
• Recent independent Democracy (1960)
• Violent division of the island (since 1974)
• Recent migration (Central Europe, Asia, Arab
  countries)
• Strong and deep democratic tradition
• Strong power of the political parties
• Week civil society

• History of consecutive occupations /
  colonisations
• Multi-cultural heritage
• Strong Greek identity
• Strong European identity
• Violent separation of the two main communities
• Major demographic changes in the areas non under
  the control of the government of the Republic of
  Cyprus
• Reflected within schools
• Special programmes for integration of students
• civic education

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Global Development EducationMain activity

• Global Education Week within the
• Global Education Programme
• Other programmes on relevant issues
• i.e. EDC HRE (CoE)

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Global Education WeekWho is coordinating today?

• Ministry of Education Culture (MOEC)
• OELMEK (Secondary Education Teachers Union)

Formal Education
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Global Education in Cyprus

• The Ministry of Education Culture
• Global Education Week
• Since 1999
• History of the participation
• 2 pilot schools-secondary education, 1999 - 2002
• Increased number of secondary education schools
  interested
• Teachers Union involvement in 2003
• Peer Review Process Global Education in Cyprus,
  GENE, 2004
• Coordination by the head office of the MOEC since
  2004 II 2006
• GEW is announced to all schools since 2007

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How we coordinate?

• A Committee for GE - members from all
  sectors(Since September 2008)
• engagement responsibilities cooperation
  more ideas
• Coordination by the Permanents Secretary Office
• decision making process
• Important information to the Minister of EC
• Dissemination of information and announcement of
  special activities
• Web page www.moec.gov.cy
• Direct communication with schools

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How is the structure?
Students - Parents - Teachers Associations
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What does a centralized educational system means?
Information from the Ministry
arrives immediately to
803 schools
11.885 educators
121.441 students
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What does this mean forGlobal Education Week?

• Announcement of the GEW at the beginning of the
  school year
• Immediate information about activities and
  actions in all schools
• Collecting data from schools for the evaluation
  (evaluation form in the web-page)

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Why GEW 2008 was more important than the previous
years?

• Organization structure
• Webpage (kind of information)
• Liaison with other programs earned experience
  (especially EYID 2008)
• Promotion - special campaigns activities
• Beginning of a cooperation - synergies
• CyprusAid
• Other national authorities - services (i.e.PIO)
• Civil Society especially the NGDOs

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Liaison with the EYID 2008

• Cyprus NCB Ministry of Education Culture
  common theme - school year objective
• Take advantage of the structures formed for the
  EYID 2008 (synergies good practices wider
  body)
• To use the media (i.e.CBC - national media
  sponsoring)
• To cooperate with the civil society (ie Wider
  Body, Anna Lidht Foundation network, local
  authorities, diverse organisations)
• Take advantage of the whole discussion on ID
  within schools and within the society
• To involve sensitized people in GEW
• To connect GEW with already existing issues and
  activities

Give more visibility to GEW
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Example Research project on xenophobia
Students opinions
Do you accept to share your desk with a student
from another country
Yes 78 No 8
School with Greek Turkish Cypriot students
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Example Research project on xenophobia
Parents opinions
Do you mind if students from other countries
study in the same school with your children
NO 62 YES 36
Why there is so much distance between the
parents and the students opinions?
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Where was GEW within the EYID 2008?

• The Week took place in different ways in a great
  number of schools
• B. Special focus on Global Solidarity
• Two actions where announced on the theme
• Intercultural Dialogue and Global Solidarity
• Creating photos
• Creating a short movie

No prices - awards
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Solidarity
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Intercultural Dialogue and Global Solidarity
Come with me
Help!
We are all equal
Stop poverty
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Let us live
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Intercultural Dialogue and Global Solidarity
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Intercultural Dialogue and Global Solidarity
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Intercultural Dialogue and Global Solidarity
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• Education
• for equal opportunities for all
• for a multi-cultured society
• for peace in the world
• against racism
• for human rights for all
• for happy-healthy youth

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global interdependence
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global interdependence
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Involving a multi-cultured group of students at
school
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Involving a multi-cultured group of students at
school
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Implementing GE issues methodology in the
classroom
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What we do more with the produced photos and
movies?

• Decision through developed synergies

Ministry of Education Culture
Common actions
CyprusAid

• Civil Society
• NGO support centre
• NGDO platform

• What has been already done?
• Meeting - presentation sharing (MOEC,
  CyprusAid, NGDOs, October 2008)
• First Teachers Training Seminar (MOEC CyprusAid,
  FWC, January 2009)
• An draft plan for further cooperation was decided
  (March 2009)

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What is CyprusAid?

• Development Cooperation Service of the
  Governement of the Republic of Cyprus
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
• Ministry of Finance Planning Bureau
• Development aid in 3 sectoral priorities
• Infrastructure development
• Social and services sectors
• Environment

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What kind of projects?

• Development Projects through Delegated
  Cooperation
• Project countries Autonomous Palestinian
  Territories, Egypt, Lebanon, Lesotho, Mali and
  Yemen
• Projects related to education
• Construction of a boarding house for girls
  studying in the Sekonyela High School in
  Mokhotlong, Lesotho (in partnership with Irish
  Aid)
• Refurbishment of 4 schools in the areas of
  Botha-Bothe in Lesotho (in partnership with Irish
  Aid)
• Early Childhood Education Enhancement in Egypt
  (in partnership with the United Nations World
  Food Programme)
• Short term long term scholarships
• Students from 15 countries

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Partnership for awareness raising in Cyprus

• Study Visit to Hungary
• Delegation representatives of the Government of
  the Republic of Cyprus and the Civil Society
• Regional Conference (November 2008)
• Serving the Citizen Promoting NGO-Public
  Sector Partnership
• Conference M. Richelle Koos (DG Europaid) - May
  2009 in cooperation with the European Commission
  Representation
• Workshop for policy makers
• Seminar for school students

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Partnership for awareness raising in Cyprus

• Reform of the legal and regulatory framework
  affecting NGOs in Cyprus
• in cooperation with the UNDP-ACT programme
• The whole legislation reform and modernization
  through a participatory process will contribute
  to the development of a climate of trust between
  the Government and the Civil Society and will
  ensure transparency and compliance with the rules
  of good governance.

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Actual situation of NGOs

• A great number of humanitarian associations
  organisations
• Week civil society in terms of Development
  Education
• Recent development NGDO platform (2008)
• Future World Centre
• Ecognosia
• NGO support centre
• Cyprus Family Planning Association
• Meditteranean Institude of Gender Studies
• Volunteers Doctors Cyprus
• Index Research Centre
• Cardet
• Laona

Projects with schools directly
Need of cooperation-partnership with national
authorities
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Draft plan for cooperation between MOEC
CyprusAid ( NGDOs)

• CyprusAid information materials in all schools
• Training programs for different stakeholders,
  involving the civil society
• Booklet for students
• CyprusAid goals activities
• Global development education issues
• MDGs (booklet distributed by the EIC)
• Information by NGDOs
• Posters with students photos
• CDs with produced films
• Production-distribution of the game food force
  (WFP) for GEW 2009
• Cooperate with the NGDOs on specific proposals

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How we may take advantage from existing new
structures ?
human resources

• to set-up a strategy for Global Development
  Education, via partnership
• Or even
• to draw a framework for a strategy
• Or at least
• to improve our practices and to have more impact
  on specific target groups
• to set-up new projects

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Important structures within the Educational
Reform
Teachers Unions Parents Associations Students
Unions Universities Representatives Inspectors
Trade Union Political Parties
Consultative process
Council of Education representatives from the
main political parties
Decision making process
Council of Ministers
Parliament
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Important momentum within the Educational Reform

• Central Committee for reforming the Curricula
• Thematic Committees for reforming thematic areas
  of the Curricula
• New books educational materials according to
  the new curricula

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From the GE programmeto a GE policy
challenge

• Global Education Recommendation
• Global Education Guidelines
• Consensus on Development Education
• White Paper on ID

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• Thank you for your attention
• www.moec.gov.cy
• Ministry of Education Culture, Republic of
  Cyprus