Progressio Ireland is an independent Irish international development organisation that is part of the Progressio family. Through our skill-sharing and development worker programme we work in partnership with local organisations in 11 countries to facilitate people’s active participation in their own development. Contributing to structural policy change at a global level is fundamental to our work. Our key areas are participation/ effective governance and sustainable environment.

Recent Blog Posts

 

Climate Pro – New Climate Partnership launched on World Environment Day

On World Environment Day, Wednesday 5 June, Progressio Ireland is launching ClimatePro – a new partnership initiative designed to tackle climate change in a fair and effective wa ... read more

Food security project: coffee, cocoa, and family food gardens

Progressio development worker Bernardo writes: In the past weeks we have been monitoring the work we’re doing in collaboration with GIZ [the Green Libon project]. This is so ... read more

Food security project: The achievements and the commitment of women farmers

Progressio development worker Karina writes: Over the past week we have been continuing workshops on food security and preventive health with women of the mothers’ centers an ... read more

Progressio Ireland invites you to Africa Day 2013

One of our favourite annual events is coming back to Dublin this weekend –  Africa Day celebrations . This year this family-friendly event takes place in the Farmleigh House Es ... read more

Where We Work

  Dominican Republic & HaitiEl SalvadorHondurasMalawiNicaraguaPeruSomalilandTimor-LesteYemenZimbabwe
Progressio Ireland Partner Countries

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Central America & The Carribbean: Haiti & Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. South America: Peru. Africa: Malawi, Somaliland and Zimbabwe. Asia: Timor-Leste. Middle East: Yemen.

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Our Campaigns

Waterproof Development Campaign

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Progressio Ireland's “Waterproof Development” campaign  fights for the equitable and sustainable management of global water resources, with a specific focus on poor and vulnerable groups. With this campaign Progressio aims to address the unsustainable and unjust patterns of water access and consumption.

We recently campaigned for stronger commitments and"The Future We Want" the  Rio +20 conference in Rio De Janiro in June 2012.

Read the reports from the Progressio delegation, Progressio Ireland's analysis of the Rio+20 outcomes or a blog post on what all of this means for poor and marginalised communities in Yemen.

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Thank you for voting - we won the award!

Progressio's Waterproofing Development Video

And the winner is ... Progreessio Ireland! Our video won the Better Together Video Awards.
Thanks to the amazing support by our friends and followers we gathered enough public votes to get us into the finals.
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By becoming a supporter of Progressio Ireland you can take an important first step towards being more involved in helping to solve the global issues that we confront every day.
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Young Film Makers

 

Environmental Awareness in El Salvador

The children of El Tamarindo in El Salvador wrote, planned and shot this video about environmental awareness and advocay education. Read more...

Our work is supported by:

Irish Aid Progressio Ireland acknowledges the generous support of Irish Aid.

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