WHAT IS THE ONE WORLD CENTRE?
The One World Centre is a voluntary non-governmental organisation which uses education to promote sustainable development and social justice both locally and globally. The Centre’s ethos is centred around the need to stimulate discussion and raise awareness of the relationship between Northern Ireland and developing countries.
TRAINING
The Centre offers in-service and pre-service training for teachers focusing on:
- the economic relationship between the developed and developing worlds;
- the reasons for the different rates of development between countries;
- the relationship between population growth, economic activity and environmental destruction;
- the rate of environmental destruction and the need for sustainable development.
Inset training will be delivered on-site and is free. This training gives teachers the opportunity to acquire a range of skills to suit their individual needs using the internet, wordprocessing, spreadsheet and database software when profiling the issues listed above.
NETWORKS
The Centre is involved in a number of networks and working groups aimed at raising the profile of Development Education throughout Britain and Ireland and lobbying for additional Governmental support for development organisations.
LIBRARY SERVICE
The Library contains teaching resources, reference books, simulation games, photoboards and CDs suitable for teachers at all Key Stages which address the full range of development themes. These materials can either be purchased or borrowed through library membership.
PUBLIC EVENTS
Each year the One World Centre organises a series of Development Education seminars which are open to the public and are organised on a cross-community basis using different venues in Belfast. They address a mixture of human rights, political, economic and social themes taking both national and international perspectives.
Themes addressed during 1999/2000 have included: the Celtic Tiger; the debt crisis in Latin America; human rights abuses and the right to truth in Guatemala; East Timor and refugees and asylum seekers in an Irish context. To view details of upcoming events organised by the One World Centre and other NGOs in Belfast click the Upcoming Events link at the top of the page.
FUNDING
Over the past fourteen years the One World Centre has continued to receive most of its core funding from the Development Agencies which founded the Centre. The Centre is currently in receipt of substantial funding for two formal sector projects: one of the Projects is supported by the National Lottery Charities Board and the second is jointly funded by DFID in Britain and NCDE in Ireland. We have also received small project funding from the DEA, the DFID Mini-Grants Scheme, INTO, NODE, Oxfam Ireland and UNA (Welsh Centre) Trust.