Resources

Facing Facts and Realities - Africans in Ireland

This leaflet (download both front and inside) challenges the negative myths about African immigrants in Ireland. The more Irish and African immigrants know about each other, the more we can appreciate working and living together and can create a more acceptable, equal, progressive and multicultural Ireland.

To read and download the leaflet, please click on the following links:
 - front of leaflet PDF
 - inside of leaflet PDF


The WTO and the Post-Global Food Crisis Agenda
November 2011

Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, presents this activity report on putting food security first in the international trade system. To download and read the report click here.


Economic Alternatives for Gender and Social Justice: Voices and Visions from India and Latin America

With the dominant neoliberal model of the economy causing one crisis after another, the search for alternative development pathways has become an urgent necessity. By linking the macro and the micro economic levels, WIDE wants to facilitate and support processes which challenge mainstream economic thinking from a feminist perspective and start thinking outside the box.
They have released a briefing paper based on two earlier publications by WIDE: In Search of Economic Alternatives for Gender and Social Justice: Voices from India and Economic Alternatives for Gender and Social Justice: Voices and Visions from Latin America. These publications contain short articles collected from India and Latin America.i The essays not only suggest new and alternative ideas to achieve sustainable development, social and gender justice in the context of the globalised neoliberal model, at the same time they draft some general guiding principles and building blocks for identifying and shaping pathways towards an alternative micro- and macro-economic development agenda. Each of them proves that women are developing transformative agency on a conceptual and a practical level, demystifying the TINA ideology (“There Is No Alternative!”) and are on their way to make TATA a reality: “There Are a Thousand Alternatives”. Download the briefing paper here.

New Trócaire on-line east Africa resource
Trócaire have created a new recent on-line resource to explore the drought in east Africa through  Interactive white board activities. You can access the resource at www.trocaire.org/resources/east-africa

New World Disasters  2011 Report released
Sep 2011
The report focuses on agriculture and social protection and contains a section on what kind of changes are needed by governments, donors and global institutions to eradicate hunger. You can find out more here, and download the full report here.


The Soul Beat -  Storytelling for Change

October 12 2011

From SOUL BEAT AFRICA - where communication and media are central to AFRICA's social and economic development
 
http://www.comminit.com/africa/category/sites/africa

Storytelling in the context of social change offers a way for people to share their experiences and gives a personal perspective on development issues. This issue of The Soul Beat features programme experiences, strategic thinking documents, and resources about storytelling for change in Africa. The stories are about migration, refugees, gender-based violence, maternal health, HIV/AIDS, and human rights and are recorded and shared using a variety of communication media such as video and film, radio, print, and the visual and performance arts.

If you would like your organisation's communication work or research and resource documents to be featured on the Soul Beat Africa website and in The Soul Beat newsletters, please send your information to soulbeat@comminit.com

To subscribe to The Soul Beat, go to http://www.comminit.com/africa/user/register or send an email to soulbeat@comminit.com with a subject of "subscribe".
 

Taking Racism Seriously: Migrants’ Experiences of Violence, Harassment and Anti-social Behaviour in the Dublin Area

The report of the racism research commissioned by the ICI and undertaken by Professor Bryan Fanning (University College Dublin) has been launched on October 4th 2011, in the Civic Offices at Wood Quay.

The research, funded by Dublin City Council, explored the experiences of people accessing the ICI’s anti-racism support services, a number of case studies and focus group interviews with Asian healthcare workers, Dublin Bus drivers and the LUAS’s revenue protection officers

To read and download the research, please click on the following link:

Taking Racism Seriously. PDF.
 

Austerity Forever 

Publication from the Corporate Europe Observatory stating that The European Union’s new model of economic governance, including the Euro Pact, is a model of prolonged austerity.You can download the publication here.

Skills in Development Education Resource

Comhlámh has been running a Skills in Development Course for  5 years and over this time we’ve been developing and expanding it. We’ve produced a resource based on the Skills in Development Education course as a way to capture the impact of (and celebrate!) the work we’re carrying out and also to promote the course – which will be held again in spring 2012. It includes an outline of the course and the practical activities that were developed by the course participants in 2011. You can download the pdf at: http://www.comhlamh.org/skills-in-development-education-course-spring-20091.html 

Exploring Diversity & Justice through the Arts

Comhlamh’s new resource includes worksheets, classroom activities, background information and checklists to support teachers to: Explore identity, challenge discrimination and promote justice locally and globally; Prepare learners for living in a diverse and complex world; and Create a school culture that celebrates diversity and engagement with social justice issues. Free to download online at and available to buy for €10 (postage included). Find out more here!

Trade and Development Report, 2011

The Trade and Development Report 2011 focuses on the post-crisis policy challenges in the world economy. It concludes that the recovery is slowing down and that the "two-speed recovery" is mainly the result of wide differences in domestic demand.  To read more and download the report please click here.

New resource for campaigners: Bond guide on influencing the EU

Fully revised since the Lisbon Treaty came into force, this advocacy guide explains how to influence European Union (EU) international development policies.  Read more here, download the guide here.

Bond's discussion paper on Growth and global advocacy

The issue of growth in relation to development is now firmly back on the agenda of development policymakers. Read more and download discussion paper here.    

MDGs and Economic Justice Website   

Bond has launched a new website to shine a spotlight on economic justice issues and facilitate campaigning on the MDGs. The site provides an overview of key economic justice issues including tax justice, ODA and growth. It also highlights specific campaigns of Bond members, allowing users to take action with them on economic justice. The site also includes Bond’s toolkit on lobbying and advocacy on the MDGs, which contains a guide on influencing the UK, EU and the UN on the MDGs. To read more click here.

Chistian Aid Launches Tax justice advocacy toolkit

A toolkit for civil society

The purpose of this toolkit is to strengthen the capacity of civil society organisations to:

- understand and analyse the issues surrounding tax in a given country

- develop advocacy strategies for tax justice

- do tax research

- plan and undertake different advocacy activities (for example lobbying, campaigning and media work)

- learn from the experience of others already doing tax advocacy

To download click here

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