Peer educators are receiving training on issues that they are expected to discuss during peer-to-peer education sessions in community
CETU organized capacity building training for peer educators to empower and organize potential and returnee migrant workers
FAIRWAY in Ethiopia is strengthening capacity of Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions (CETU) to reach out, sensitize, empower, and organize potential and returnee migrant workers to protect their rights
28 July 2022
Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions (CETU), the only workers' confederation in Ethiopia, has organized capacity building training for 19 peer educators in Adama City, Oromia region. The training, started from 25 July will conclude on 28 July by providing required skills and information to peer educators, which will enable them to deliver effective peer to peer education back in their community.
This peer educators' capacity building training is part of the FAIRWAY's broader initiative in Ethiopia to strengthen capacity of trade union and domestic workers' associations to reach out, sensitize, aware and empower potential migrant workers, returnee migrant workers and domestic migrant workers about their rights and welfare. This initiative is also taken to sensitize and raise awareness among the potential migrants about safe and regular pathways of labour migration and inform them about risks and challenges of irregular pathways.
Among the 19 women peer educators attending the capacity building training, 14 are migrant workers engaged in domestic work and are returned from Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait. During the four days training, they will learn about different issues associated with labour migration, risks of irregular migration, different actors/agencies involved in labour migration processing, worker's rights and organizing into trade unions and on key messages they must deliver while conducting peer to peer education in the community. They are also expected to motivate and encourage potential and returnee migrant workers to join trade union and domestic workers' associations.
After completing the training, each peer educator will provide peer to peer education into two community groups. Each community group will have 20 potential and or returnee migrant workers and there will be four different discussion sessions in each group that will be facilitated by a peer educator during a month period. Accordingly, peer educators will also do individual reach out to potential and returnee migrant workers in the community and share the knowledge and information they have obtained during the training.
This peer educators' capacity building training is part of the FAIRWAY's broader initiative in Ethiopia to strengthen capacity of trade union and domestic workers' associations to reach out, sensitize, aware and empower potential migrant workers, returnee migrant workers and domestic migrant workers about their rights and welfare. This initiative is also taken to sensitize and raise awareness among the potential migrants about safe and regular pathways of labour migration and inform them about risks and challenges of irregular pathways.
Among the 19 women peer educators attending the capacity building training, 14 are migrant workers engaged in domestic work and are returned from Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait. During the four days training, they will learn about different issues associated with labour migration, risks of irregular migration, different actors/agencies involved in labour migration processing, worker's rights and organizing into trade unions and on key messages they must deliver while conducting peer to peer education in the community. They are also expected to motivate and encourage potential and returnee migrant workers to join trade union and domestic workers' associations.
After completing the training, each peer educator will provide peer to peer education into two community groups. Each community group will have 20 potential and or returnee migrant workers and there will be four different discussion sessions in each group that will be facilitated by a peer educator during a month period. Accordingly, peer educators will also do individual reach out to potential and returnee migrant workers in the community and share the knowledge and information they have obtained during the training.