Webinar: Inclusion within the Development Education Sector

Date: Wednesday 27 April, 12.30 – 2.00pm

Location: Online

IDEA is hosting a webinar, in collaboration with CBM Ireland, to explore the issue of inclusion across the Irish Development Education sector, and to highlight the needs that exist and ways to address them. This will be facilitated by Valery Molay, with speakers from within the Development Education sector, Mbemba Jabbi, Africa Centre, David Nyaluke, Proudly Made in Africa, Mahbub Kabir, CBM Ireland, and Johnny Sheehan, The Wheel and IDEA Chairperson.


The discussion will include questions that have arisen through the work of the Code of Good Practice for Development Education Ireland, as well as a critical conversation on inclusive programming, ensuring Development Education content, tools and materials, facilitation and other processes ensure inclusion as well.


If you have questions please contact us  

Biographies

Valery Molay is a consultant and trainer in the fields of global justice, climate policy and youth participation. She has previously worked as global justice policy officer at the National Youth Council of Ireland, where she supported the youth sector by developing and facilitation trainings on climate justice, racial justice, and the SDGs. Valery has worked as a global justice practitioner across the private, public, NGOs and academic sectors in Ireland and across Europe.


Valery has previously served as the Irish Youth delegate to the United Nations and the European Union. She also sat on the expert group on membership, diversity, and inclusion for the European Youth Forum. Additionally, she had the privilege to be the Chairperson of the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR). Currently, she is a board member of Friend of the Earth Ireland.

Mbemba Jabbi is the founder and Managing Director of Jabbi Group Limited, a business and management consultancy company based in Ireland, and the Executive Director of Africa Solidarity Centre (Africa Centre Ireland), an African diaspora led development organisation. He has been researching African Diaspora engagement in development practice in countries of residence and origin. 


Mbemba is also a member of the African Union Commission (AUC) Labour Migration Advisory Committee (LMAC) and a Board member of the Africa Europe Diaspora Development Platform (ADEPT), based in Brussels.


Mbemba has attended and spoken at numerous international and national development seminars and conferences. He has also led multiagency development projects in the past ten years and is currently working on an initiative involving six African diaspora led organisations in six European countries on an Erasmus+ project looking at integration and inclusion policies in these countries in line with European Union policies. 

Dr. David Nyaluke is the Proudly Made in Africa and UCD Fellow in Business and Development.  He researches and teaches on Doing Business in and with Africa and Sustainable Development across business schools and departments of business in universities, colleges and institutes of technology in Ireland.  


With a research focus on development in African states, he has presented at several conferences, including a 2014 special symposium to mark 20 years of South Africa’s end of apartheid and return to democracy. David is also published in many journals and contributes regular reviews on African political, business and sustainable development issues.  


David is currently the vice-chairperson of the African Scholars Association of Ireland(AfSAI), Convenor of the Business and Development study group at DSAI and is the co-chair of the Steering Committee for the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2025 (UNIDPAD) in Ireland. 

Mahbub Kabir is the Advocacy and Inclusion Advisory Manager at CBM Ireland. Right after doing an MA in anthropology, Mahbub took up a research role in an organisation that has pioneered Freirean emancipatory education in Bangladesh. For the last about twenty years, he has worked for several organisations and promoted inclusion in development and humanitarian contexts in Asia and Africa.  

Johnny Sheehan is the Wheel’s Member Engagement Manager. The main focus of his work is driving the development, presence and participation in The Wheel’s programmes locally around Ireland and support members to engage effectively with The Wheel. Another key aspect of the role is to support rural communities through Ireland's National Rural Network, and to facilitate networking among community groups, ensuring that issues affecting local communities are reflected in The Wheel’s work nationally.


Johnny has more than 25 years of experience working in the development, youth work and environmental sectors. This includes work with Dóchas as Project Coordinator for the European Year for Development 2015, with Fairtrade Ireland and with the National Youth Council of Ireland as Development Education Programme Coordinator from 2004 to 2012. He is also Chairperson of the Irish Development Education Association.

Launch of IDEA's Theory of Impact for GCE

September 26, 2025
Date: Tuesday, 04 November, from 3.30–4.30pm Location: Online via Zoom IDEA is thrilled to invite members to the online launch of our new “Theory of Impact for Global Citizenship Education” on Tuesday, 04 November, from 3.30–4.30pm, Online via Zoom. During this session, we will present the model, share insights into the process behind its development, and explore how it will be used to strengthen impact across the sector. We will also introduce a new tool in progress, an interactive data visualisation map designed to showcase our collective impact as a network. For many years, IDEA and its members have been grappling with the concept of impact in Development Education/Global Citizenship Education (hereinafter ‘GCE’). As GCE practitioners, tracking impact helps us to identify how, where and with whom our work is creating positive change, as well as investigating areas in which our impact could be stronger. Furthermore, we can also benefit from examining the collective impact of GCE carried out by the wide-ranging work of IDEA members, and from exploring how these impacts contribute to the major social changes to which the GCE community aspires. Driven therefore by the need to understand how projects and programmes are collectively “making a difference” in IDEA we looked at models that could help us visualise and capture GCE “impact networks”. We formulated our vision of impact and then a theory of how we expect this desired impact to be achieved to allow us to map our activities and collect data to corroborate that theory. This Theory of Impact model is how we hope to illustrate this complex GCE impact network. Building on work done by IDEA over many years including building sectoral capacity in using Results Frameworks for GCE, our Quality & Impact working group, engagement with Irish Aid on their Performance Measurement Framework (PMF), and the successful roll-out of a Code of Good Practice for DE/GCE, this Theory of Impact represent the next stage of our effort to ‘develop a consistent approach to measuring impact among the sector’. We are therefore thrilled to invite you to the presentation of our ‘Theory of Impact for GCE’. At this online presentation, we will tell you about the process that led to the creation of this model, how it will be used and what we hope it could bring to the sector. We will also touch on a new tool being developed based on the model, which should allow the creation of an interactive data visualisation map of our collective impact as a network. Join us as we launch into this exciting new phase of our Impact Measurement work. Join us as we begin this exciting new phase of our Impact Measurement work. Register below!

IDEA Advocacy Toolkit and GCE Policy Guide Workshop, November

September 26, 2025
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Racial Justice Training: Exploring Contemporary Crises and Issues through Global Citizenship Education 2025

September 26, 2025
Date: 06 November a nd 18 November from 3.30–4.30pm Location: IDEA offices, 6 Gardiner Row, Dublin 1 Due to positive feedback following a workshop during our annual conference, we are thrilled to invite members to a full 2-part interactive workshop about “Racial Justice” on 06 November and 18 November. This event will take place in-person in Dublin. Our facilitators Bronwyn April and Mdahyelya Bassi will guide participants through a critical exploration of the interconnections between racial justice, philanthropy, migration, and decolonisation within global and Irish contexts. The workshop will delve into how historical and ongoing colonial legacies influence contemporary issues of racial equity and social justice in Ireland and beyond. The dates for this event are fast approaching, so if you have any specific accessibility requirements, please email events@ideaonline.ie as soon as possible. Places for this event are limited, and registration is mandatory. Deadline to register is Monday, 04 November. Register below!