About Us
Development Education Network-Liberia (DEN-L) is a national non-governmental, non-partisan, and non-profit organization.
Also an offshoot of the work of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), an organization within the Catholic Church. JRS supported the work of Sr. Miriam Therese O’Brien (a Catholic Sister from Ireland) in Liberia through the Catholic Diocese of Gbarnga based on the request of Bishop Benedict D. Sekey. Sr. Miriam initially worked with a team of Liberians to run Development Education and Leadership Teams in Action (DELTA) training with lay people in the Diocese to increase local people’s involvement in the development of the church.
We are working to build a constituency of people-to-people formations in pursuit of grassroots empowerment economic justice, democratic development and gender equity for a just and peaceful Liberia.
Society | Culture | Justice | Gender Equity
Since our establishment we have and continue to make meaningful contributions to the process of holistic and radical transformation in Liberia. We have a long standing record in the fight against the many societal vices—culture of silence and impunity, power imbalance, gender inequality, social exclusion, etc—which have for decades engulfed Liberia. DEN-L provides development education and training for practitioners
working in a range of occupations from over 50 organizations in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. The trainings offered reflect a combination of formal and non-formal educational methodologies.
The Delta Methodology
The primary thrust of our work is training for transformation using the DELTA methodology. Developed by Anne Hope and Sally Timmel, DELTA integrates insights from five major sources: Paulo Freire’s work on critical awareness, human relations training in group work, organizational development, social analysis, and spiritual sources of inspiration.
It allows open space techniques and uses a combination of tools such as codes, role-plays, case studies, plenary discussions, focused group discussions, simulation games etc. The participatory, interactive, and experiential nature of this method helps raise the consciousness of those who are socially underprivileged, economically deprived, and politically excluded for positive actions.
The DELTA methodology aims to promote critical analysis of local, national, and international situations as part of development action planning. It facilitates democracy and increased accountability in organizations and the wider society. The methodology seeks to build solidarity, collaboration, and networking amongst international, national, and community-based groups involved in humanitarian, development, advocacy, and rights-based work.
DELTA methodology is a living example of growth in realistic drives to transformation through cycles combining action-reflection, and theory-practice. Since the 1970s, DELTA has gone against mainstreams of transformation which place more emphasis on things than on people, and insists that transformation is about people and not things.
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People we have partnered with
The following are both international and local NGOs we have partnered with:
