Awareness raising
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DSW’s activities directly reach many parts of the world through its country offices and programmes. With offices in Germany, Belgium, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya, DSW solidly assures that its objectives are guaranteed through a presence in the traditional policymaking scene, as well as in the policy implementation. In Africa each office is attentive to the particularities that exist within each country.
DSW’s country projects are aimed at the promotion of local ownership through "Youth to Youth" programmes, education and awareness activities and the creation of training centres for the instruction of peer educators. Thus, being actively involved translates itself into having direct contact with the populations that require the assistance that is given.
For DSW, advocacy and awareness raising is not only necessary in Germany and at the Brussels level. Our southern offices are equally active in advocacy, providing information to local, regional and national authorities and parliamentarians. By linking facts and figures that arise from our country programs to advocacy activities, consequently linking messages in the global South and North, our advocacy work becomes genuinely evidence-based, coherent and more effective.
In order to more effectively promote DSW’s objectives, advocacy work and awareness raising is also needed in Europe including the EU level. Together, EU member states and the European Commission comprise the world’s largest donor to development. Therefore, it is imperative for DSW to assure that its causes are reflected in European policies and funding priorities.
Through the International Affairs office, DSW actively provides field-based information and puts its causes on EU and global agendas through liaison with different actors in the EU institutional framework namely the European Parliament, the Commission, the Council through the Permanent Representations, as well as private entities are made aware and informed about the issues that DSW defends. In addition, the International Affairs office gives it the opportunity to coordinate its efforts with many other Brussels-based and Southern NGOs with similar objectives.
DSW’s activities directly reach many parts of the world through its country offices and programmes. With offices in Germany, Belgium, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya, DSW solidly assures that its objectives are guaranteed through a presence in the traditional policymaking scene, as well as in the policy implementation. In Africa each office is attentive to the particularities that exist within each country.
DSW’s country projects are aimed at the promotion of local ownership through "Youth to Youth" programmes, education and awareness activities and the creation of training centres for the instruction of peer educators. Thus, being actively involved translates itself into having direct contact with the populations that require the assistance that is given.
For DSW, advocacy and awareness raising is not only necessary in Germany and at the Brussels level. Our southern offices are equally active in advocacy, providing information to local, regional and national authorities and parliamentarians. By linking facts and figures that arise from our country programs to advocacy activities, consequently linking messages in the global South and North, our advocacy work becomes genuinely evidence-based, coherent and more effective.
In order to more effectively promote DSW’s objectives, advocacy work and awareness raising is also needed in Europe including the EU level. Together, EU member states and the European Commission comprise the world’s largest donor to development. Therefore, it is imperative for DSW to assure that its causes are reflected in European policies and funding priorities.
Through the International Affairs office, DSW actively provides field-based information and puts its causes on EU and global agendas through liaison with different actors in the EU institutional framework namely the European Parliament, the Commission, the Council through the Permanent Representations, as well as private entities are made aware and informed about the issues that DSW defends. In addition, the International Affairs office gives it the opportunity to coordinate its efforts with many other Brussels-based and Southern NGOs with similar objectives.
