Development education in Northern Ireland: assessing the past and charting the future

Abstract

In this assessment of development education practice in Northern Ireland over the past twenty years, Stephen McCloskey examines the funding trends and issues of capacity in the development sector. He examines the influence of the Department for International Development’s intervention in the sector in the late 1990s, and considers the importance of local policy and resource support of development education and the prospects for extending development education into new sectors of civil society in the future.