Irish Aid and Léargas
This section lists resources associated with development education and linking or immersion projects. If you would like to add to these pages, please email worldwise@leargas.ie.
Irish Aid is the Government of Ireland's programme of assistance to developing countries. On the Irish Aid website, www.irishaid.gov.ie
, you can find out more about Ireland's response to issues of global poverty and injustice and about the Irish Aid development education strategy. Irish Aid has also published a number of development education articles relevant to development education, linking projects and summaries of available development education resources.
Léargas www.léargas.ie is Ireland's National Agency for the management of national, European and international cooperation programmes involving education, vocational education and training, youth and community work and guidance in education. Léargas enables and supports people, organisations and systems to innovate and to harness the benefits of transnational partnership.
Through European, bilateral and international programmes, Léargas enables the development of intercultural awareness, facilitates change management, and assists in the development of new responses to the need for innovation in education and the workplace.