Can Global Citizenship be a Part of the Post-2015 Agenda?

Can Global Citizenship be a Part of the Post-2015 Agenda?

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2015 is an important year for international development with the agreement of a new set of targets that will supersede the Millennium Development Goals.This article maps some ongoing and upcoming development policy initiatives that development educators need to engage with in order to strengthen the global citizenship agenda.It argues click here that considerable policy advances have already been achieved in an EU context under the auspices of the Development Awareness Raising and Education (DARE) Forum which unites national development platforms across the EU.

These efforts should spur the sector toward influencing the post-2015 international development click here framework to push development education higher up the global policy agenda.The article suggests that development educators need to engage a wider constituency of support from civil society organisations including academics, trade unions, churches, the private sector and local authorities to work together to achieve our goal of global citizenship for all.