The Development Education Centre South Yorkshire (DECSY) promotes Global Learning: an approach to education that increases understanding of complex global issues, such as world poverty, conflict, climate change, migration and thinking about how to create a better world.
Gender Action is run by DECSY, an education charity working with schools for over 40 years to support them in developing global learning across the whole curriculum. Gender equality has been intrinsic to all of their work and has been a specific focus with their Gender Respect Project and subsequent European-wide projects to develop gender equality charter marks (GECM) for secondary and primary schools, evaluated by Universities in each country. The primary schools’ work of the Gender Respect Project has been recently published by Jessica Kingsley Publisher: Gender Equality in Primary Schools: A Guide for Teachers.
The founders and DECSY now exist as consortium partners. Gender Action is managed by DECSY and the consortium partners are an advisory body, giving in-kind support, not receiving money.