Development Perspectives

Development Perspectives is a development NGO based in Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland that explores, examines and acts upon a range of issues and challenges that face our world.

We believe that:
- The world is ever changing.
- People around the world are interdependent as are the challenges that face them.
- Presently, the world is a very unequal place to live.
- We can address and solve the challenges that face the world through individual and collective reflection and action.

Our vision is a world where people live in peace with each other, in harmony with nature, free from the shackles of hunger and poverty and who are willing to work together to bring about an equitable, just and sustainable world.

As an organisation we aim to challenge some of the ideas that people may have about the world around us. We as humans have formed views of the world around us and those views are in turn formed as a result of conditioning by parents, teachers, family, media, peers and eventually by ourselves - We see what we want to see in order to support and validate our idea of what the world should look like.

Our hope is to encourage people to re evaluate their perspective, to see beyond the current reality that we find ourselves in and to find ways and means of making this world of ours a more just and equal place.

DP is heavily influenced by the values listed below. These values are brought to life by the people who work on DP projects. They are the foundation stones upon which our work is based. Our values are Justice / Equality/ Sustainability / Solidarity / Partnership / Interdependence / Integrity / Citizenship / Responsibility / Participation / Leadership.


Strategic Aims of Development Perspectives:

*Ensure Development Perspectives is an effective and sustainable learning organisation/network.

*Provide high quality Development Education opportunities for adults and young people in the non formal learning arena across Ireland.

*Involve and engage targeted groups of multipliers/agents of change in Development Education programmes to bring about a deeper knowledge of Development challenges and to implement effective actions to lessen poverty and inequality.

*Build leadership capacity within communities at home and abroad by providing educational opportunity for people to become more socially entrepreneurial, innovative, sustainable, healthy and resilient.

*Collaborate and work in partnership with multiple stakeholders involved in the Development sector at home and abroad in order to maximize effectiveness of Development work and to minimize duplication of efforts.