I spent this morning with @Dochasnetwork to talk about Irish public support for #globaldev.
Their new representative study (2k sample) lays out the extraordinary levels of support for development.
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ACTIVE 🏋️♀️🚴♂️🤸♂️
👉🏿31% of those surveyed actively engaged on global development in the last 12 months.
That’s huge.
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CONCERNED 🎗
👉🏿24% are ‘very concerned’ about ‘developing countries’
👉🏿49% are ‘fairly concerned’
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JUSTICE NOT CHARITY ⚖️
The main reasons given for supporting global development are
👉🏿Human rights
👉🏿Shared Humanity
👉🏿Empathy
👉🏿Solidarity
👉🏿Justice
Very few talk of charity
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MORE MONEY 📈
👉🏿32% support increasing the aid budget
👉🏿49% support maintaining it
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TRUST DEFICIT 📉
👉🏿 >60% have low trust in government
👉🏿 >70% have low trust in development orgs
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EMPATHY
👉🏿 1 million people (mostly female, 18-44, outside Dublin) are empathetic to the cause of global development and could be converted.
👉🏿 481k (mostly older males) are disengaged.
👉🏿 1.8m are already supportive.
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HEALTH
👉🏿 The 1m ‘empathisers’ who are convertible to the cause are mostly concerned about health, preventable disease and agriculture.
For more info check out @Dochasnetwork
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