This workshop was open to all Conference delegates and was accessible for online participation as well. Four IFWEA affiliates shared experiences and lessons of their work in their countries applying IFWEA education programme activities. Participants in the workshop shared their own experiences of work on similar or related themes and shared and identified best practise in these themes.
Facilitated by the IFWEA Secretariat team.
Goma Pandey has completed Master’s degree in Management and a Bachelor of Law. She has gained a lot of experience in the social sector along with the labor movement.
She has worked in different NGOs/INGOs such as the Nepal Country Office of HomeNet South Asia Trust, the HIV Prevention program of USAID/ASHA Project, the Dil Se Project of Switzerland, UNDP/ROLHR, and Oxford Policy Management. She is the treasurer of CLASS Nepal as well as the focal person for worker’s education and advocacy campaigns. She has also experience campaigning for ILO conventions, dealing with trade unions, government, and stakeholders on labor issues, collective bargaining and providing training, conducting online courses, etc. She has been continuously engaged with CLASS Nepal since 2012 as a staff and now as the Treasurer cum educator. She has been involved in study circles and online courses of IFWEA in worker’s education since 2013. She was also a YGAP participant in 2016.
I am Jasen Mphepo, a Development Communication Expert with a lifelong passion for Theatre for Development (TfD). My mission in life is to see a generation of young people become champions in their own spaces and witness positive changes in people’s lives and attitudes through the transformative power of the arts.
Over the course of my career, I have dedicated myself to researching and addressing critical social issues, particularly in the areas of HIV and AIDS, gender activism, and child rights. With a focus on development communication strategies, including theatre, film and television, radio, and social media platforms, I have developed program concepts, scripted, produced, and directed Theatre for Development programs.
Linnea Wennberg is currently occupying the position of International Secretary of ABF, the Worker’s Education Association of Sweden. She has a vast experience from popular education and lifelong learning in various positions in Sweden, on both local and national level. Linnéa has a background in the Social Democratic Youth.
Linnéa is also a former participant of YGAP and is now a part of the coordination team from the same. Globally, Linnéa has a broad experience of international solidarity work—from volunteer positions to project leader and currently as a board member of Olof Palme International Center.
My background as a trade unionist started in the South African labour movement as a shop steward in the finance union affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions and later as a worker educator. I served workers for eleven years through the national workers’ education institute in South Africa, DITSELA (which means pathways to a stronger labour movement in Sotho). During this time, I focused on the value of building workers’ power through active worker education programmes, especially building women’s leadership in male dominated workplaces and trade unions.
I’ve been serving workers in informal employment through my work at Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) https://www.wiego.org for the past eight years. Supporting membership-based organizations to strengthen their organization and representation for greater visibility and recognition among authorities and employers at national and regional level in Africa. I recently took up the position of WIEGO School Coordinator to focus on deepening the leadership capacity of membership-based organizations especially women and young workers in informal employment to understand, analyze and advocate in the fast-changing policy contexts that directly affect their livelihoods.
WIEGO works with local, national, regional organizations and global networks of domestic workers IDWF, home-based workers HomeNet International, street vendors StreetNet International and waste pickers the International Alliance of Waste Pickers.
The transformative role of education in social contexts interests me the most. Therefore, I explored the areas of transformative education to obtain an MPhil Degree in Adult Education from the University of Cape Town.
I am a feminist activist for social justice in the ongoing struggle for an egalitarian society.
I’m also a grandmother of four adorable kids and I live in the Gauteng province of South Africa with my husband and our three dogs.