Impact

MIDEQ highlights the impactful use of its digital technologies training resources, initially crafted in Nepal, by partners at the Domestic Workers Association Zimbabwe (DWAZ). Founder Mendy Lusaba adapted these resources for women in Southern Africa, training 1,911 members across Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia.

The political mobilisation and transnational solidarity team, based at the University of Ghana and University of Cape Town, worked in partnership with the Migration Advocacy Centre Ghana (MAC) to build solidarity with migrants and local communities. Organising several community dialogue sessions and events in Accra, brought migrant communities, organisations that support migrants as well as the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA), an organisation which has organised anti-immigrant campaigns. During the meetings, the expulsion of Ghanaians from Nigeria in 1983, also known as “Ghana Must Go”, emerged as a justification for anti-migrant sentiments. However this narrative simplifies the history of migration between the two countries dating back to the expulsion of Nigerians from Ghana in 1954. To counter these anti-migrant narratives, the team undertook a series of public engagement activities to challenge dominant narratives and build solidarity.