Welcoming Hannah Kabelka: Share-Net Netherlands’ New CoP Facilitator
Posted by Nicole Moran on April 8, 2020 at 8:53 am
We are super excited to have a new addition to our Share-Net team! Hannah Kabelka has joined our team as the Share-Net Netherlands CoP Facilitator. Below is a short piece written by Hannah to introduce herself.
About myself
My name is Hannah Kabelka and as of April, I am joining Share-Net International as Communities of Practice (CoP) Facilitator. Let me introduce myself!
I am a cheerful coffee-addict, yogi and ambitious hobby-gardener with a passion for sustainable development. I grew up in the medieval city of Feldkirch in Austria and started my career as board member of a non-profit association in Vienna promoting inclusivity in non-formal education. Within my Masters, I focused on learning more about education policy in development contexts with a focus on conflict-affected settings and gender studies. My fascination for (Latin American) feminist movements and my research interest in the complexity of young people’s gender identity building guided my field research in Colombia, where I explored what can be the role of the school in youth’s transformation of gender-related beliefs, expectations and interactions in a ‘post-conflict’ state. Not least because of this on-the-ground experience, I strongly advocate for an intersectional lens to SRHR, context-sensitivity and meaningful youth participation, all of which I intend to actively reinforce in my work at Share-Net
Past working experience at the UNESCO-IIEP in Buenos Aires allowed me to gain valuable insight into reading and analysing gender-related legislation and policies. Hereinafter, I worked closely with War Child Holland’s (WCH) gender specialist on programmatic approaches and supported the recontextualization of several life skills programmes. During periods abroad, I learnt from community-based approaches, for instance when joining a social circus in Nicaragua or supporting a popular education initiative for displaced population in Colombia. As a freelancer, I developed online learning paths for WCH, e.g. on minimum standards in humanitarian interventions, and conducted literature reviews for an ongoing research project at the University of Amsterdam focusing on Muslim youth, citizenship and sense of belonging.
In conclusion, in all these workplaces I have observed a certain lack of quality in dialogue and cooperation with other stakeholders while all working towards meeting the sustainable development goals. It is, therefore, my aspiration to strengthen the nature of learning not only on a personal level or within an organisation, but particularly across stakeholders. Consequently, I am very excited about this new opportunity as Share-Net Netherlands’ CoP Facilitator and I am eager to actively contribute to the process of knowledge creation, exchange and uptake in the field of SRHR. I am curious to meet all network members in the near future and will do my best to hopefully make your engagement a bit easier, more effective and efficient! Most importantly, I hope you are feeling well in these very special covid-19-times and that you nevertheless feel enthusiastic to move on with and – where necessary – to re-think your CoP’s workplans together!
