80:20 Educating & Acting for a Better World

BACKGROUND

80:20 is an Irish-based registered charity founded in 1996 promoting popular education on human development and human rights. For 80:20, education is fundamental to understanding the shape and nature of our unequal world, to interacting with that world as well as to imagining and shaping a different world. 

CURRENT PROJECTS

80:20 designs and delivers educational projects, research and publications on a variety of issues, including youth and active citizenship, human rights in Ireland and internationally, and working with young people to explore issues such as genocide, the arms trade, migration, women’s rights and their relevance to issues from local and developing world perspectives. 

Let’s Talk is an education project which aims to give young people a chance to become involved in discussing and taking action on issues such as climate change, conflict, sustainable development, peace and reconciliation.

Catch Them If You Can is an education project on how the international financial system systematically disadvantages the poor of the world to the advantage of the rich and what you can do about it.

80:20 is also involved in the www.developmenteducation.ie consortium - a partnership-based digital project that supports and delivers popular education on development and education issues. This project is guided and financed by a consortium of non-governmental organisations including Aidlink, Concern Worldwide, Self Help Africa, the Irish Development Education Association (IDEA), the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) and Trócaire.

80:20 co-publishes the book “80:20 Development in an Unequal World” with the New Internationalist. The book, now in its 7th edition, is a best selling resource used by teachers, civil society activists and students in South Africa, Australia, the UK, the US, Zambia and, of course Ireland.

In 2020, 80:20 organised a pop up exhibition “Irish Global Solidarity in 100 objects” in Dublin. You can access the resources from this here: https://developmenteducation.ie/100objects/