Advocacy represents one of DEEEP's main activity. The advocacy Officers supports and co-operates with NPs in lobbying the European Parliament and national governments for the promotion of development education.

 

The latest major issue for the advocacy work consisted in the unveiling of the European Consensus on Development: the of DE/AR; a paper to which DEEEP and the multi-stakeholder group dedicated lot of hard work. The process is still going on, the launch was only the first step of an important path for DE.

 

To learn more on DEEEP's advocacy, click on the links.

DE Consensus Process

"The Consensus on Development: the contribution of Development Education and Awareness Raising" was unveiled in Lisbon in November 2007, during the European Development Days.

Learn more on the Consensus process

 

International DE comittments

 

• Report on the Challenge of EU Development Cooperation Policy for  New Member States, adopted by the European Parliament on February 12, 2008
  

Read the entire Report

 

• The European Consensus on Development, jointly adopted by the EU Council, the Member States, the European Commission and the European Parliament, in 2005

Read the Consensus on Development

 

• The Maastricht Global Education Declaration

This declaration was released by the participants to the Europe-Wide Global Education Congress, that took place in Maastricht, the Netherlands, on November 15-17 2002.

Download the Maastricht Declaration

 

• Council Resolution on DE

The Council resolution was adopted on November 8 2001.

Learn more on the Council Resolution.