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.

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