[hr-education] HRE initiatives in Southern Africa

Dear Sarah,

I'm writing you in answer to your email posted yesterday. You were looking
for human rights education initiatives in Southern Africa.

As Civic education programme officer at the Netherlands Institute for
Southern Africa (NiZA) I'm working with several human rights education
organisations in Southern Africa and also we started a regional initiative
for the promotion and enhancement of civic education in the region.

We work with six civic education partners:
- Public Affairs Committee, Malawi
- Centre for human rights and rehabilitation, Malawi
- National constitutional assembly, Zimbabwe
- Civic education Network, Zimbabwe
- Asserco, Mozambique
- Co-ordination Body for Refugee Communities, South Africa

NiZA supports those organisations through capacity building, solidarity
and financial support. Also we developed a regional network with those 6
organisations to enhance the exchange of civic education knowledge, skills
and materials. Last year this network developed a training for trainers
manual on 'Participation' specifically to be used by grassroots trainers.
[***Moderator's note: the online version of this manual,
"Train-the-Trainer Manual: Civic Education and Community Mobilization" can
be found in HREA's online HRE Library at:
http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=2691 ***]. If you
like I can send you a copy of the manual. We have an English and a
Portuguese version because the manual will be used in Mozambique as well
as in the English participating countries.

We are in touch with the Dutch secretariat of Amnesty International and
received training materials from them. However it would be interesting to
know in what type of work Amnesty South Africa is involved.

Best regards,

Karin van den Belt
Programme officer Civic education, NiZA, Amsterdam

NiZA The Netherlands
P.O. Box 10707
1001 ES Amsterdam
Tel: +31(0)20 5206210
Fax: +31(0)20 5206249
Email: <       >
website: www.niza.nl

 

>>> "Sarah Motha" on 15-05-06 16:12 wrote: >>>

 Dear HRE colleagues,

 Its my first time to write to this forum, thanks to you all for your
commitmet in HRE, this is evident from the ongoing online discussion
around HRE. I am responding in relation to Pablo's email wherein he
refers to Paulo Freire. I think that Freire's ideas are grounded and
more applicable to really support a communal way of living even with
regard to education posed as open to dialogic culture, listening and
learning from each other.

 Does any one know of any HRE work that is going on in Southern
Africa, in coutries such as Mozambique, Botswana, Lesotho etc, except
South Africa which is where I am based?

 Regards and keep up the good work.

 Sarah Motha
Human Rights Education Coordinator
Amnesty International South Africa
Kutlwanong Democracy Centre
357 Visagie Street,Pretoria
P.O.Box 29083,Sunnyside,0132
Tel: +27 (0)12 320 8155
Fax:+27 (0)12 320 8158
Cell:+27(0)84 765 5930

 

 
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