EENET asia Newsletters : Symposium issue April 2006 Contents

Send-off and Arrivals at UNESCO Bangkok

Olof Sandkull worked on education and human rights issues at UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok from January 2003 to February 2006. During this time, he facilitated and supported regional network building for the promotion of inclusive education. Resulting, amongst others, in a regional workshop in Bangkok in October 2004 and another for the Pacific in Samoa in November 2005. He was instrumental in providing UNESCO support for launching the Regional Network and Newsletter of EENET-Asia (Enabling Education Network) and initiated the planning for a South Asia regional workshop for inclusive and child-friendly education (under the umbrella of EFA) to be held at the end of this year. Olof has pioneered the application of a human rights-based approach to education programming in close cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and UNICEF. Olof will certainly be greatly missed in the region. Starting in March he will be working for SIDA (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) as desk officer in the Asia Department. Johan Lindeberg took over Olof’s position in the UNESCO Bangkok Office in February 2006.

Johan Lindeberg is an Associate Expert in Education and Human Rights. He will be responsible for inclusive and right-based education at the Regional UNESCO Office in Bangkok. Johan is Swedish and replaced Olof in February 2006.
Before joining UNESCO Bangkok, Johan worked as a teacher (lower secondary school) in social studies for children with special needs. He has also worked as a project manager for an institutional development programme in Zambia. During the last few years his work focused on structural school system changes. He has participated in projects in different parts of the world all aiming to promote human rights- and inclusive education based methodology in schools and classrooms.

Johan will be working on promoting inclusive and rights-based education systems in the region.

You can contact Johan Lindeberg at:
UNESCO Bangkok, APPEAL Unit, 920 Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok 10110 Thailand
Tel: +662 391-0880 ext: 312; Fax: +662 391-0866; Email: j.lindeberg@unescobkk.org

EENET asia Newsletters : Symposium issue April 2006 Contents