The Development Awareness Raising and Educatin Forum (DARE) is one of the core-working group of CONCORD, the European Confederation of Developent and Relief NGOs.

The members of the Forum are appointed by national platforms and networks, and meet twice a year, usually in Spring and Autumn. The Forum establishes common strategies to strengthen Development Education in Europe. The DARE Forum initiated the DEEEP project back in 2003.

Terms of Reference of the DARE Forum

Objectives of the DARE Forum

• To increase the European public’s critical knowledge and understanding of the causes of global poverty and inequity and our global interdependence.
• To embed development education and awareness-raising in relevant national and EU policies, and in formal, non formal and informal education systems.
• To undertake development education and awareness-raising activities in a coherent and coordinated fashion, including promoting coherence between the different stakeholders, and between the national and EU levels.
• To ensure that there is the participation of civil society and that their perspectives are considered in every stage of the policy development, programming and evaluation processes, and that there are structured and transparent mechanisms for effective dialogue between NGOs and public institutions.
• To raise the capacity of teachers and trainers delivering development education and strengthen the link with education for sustainable development.
• To be sensitive to gender relations and aim to promote equality between women and men.
• To enhance CONCORD members’ engagement in development education.
• To give political guidance to the project “Developing Europeans’ Engagement in the Eradication of Poverty” (DEEEP)

Issues

• Development Education
• Public Awareness Raising
• Campaigning
• Active Citizenship
• Global Education

Working Groups of the DARE Forum

• Advocacy
• Formal Education (formerly known as 'School Curricula')
• Communication
• Youth and Children in DE
• Quality and evaluation

DARE Position Paper on Development Education

The DARE Forum has launched its new position paper on DEAR "Development Needs Citizens"

A flyer version has also been produced! Feel free to download it and share it with your consituency!

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