A movement for justice
TESTIMONIALS
Hello from the Justice Based Approach Team Leaders
Justice Based Approach: Foundation Course
Action Against Hunger talk about the Better Development Training
The Justice Based Approach: Foundation Course - *Sneak Peek*
PARTICIPANT VOICES
The voices of our participants are so important to us. After each and every event, we make changes to both the facilitation and content based on their feedback and suggestions. After all, our participants are the reason we are here in the first place.
We have received so many stories from past participants to let us know the enormous impact our courses have made in their lives and work -- and in many ways, it's these stories that inspire us to continue sharing.
Here's a blog post written by some of our alumni to share how their experience impacted both their work and life.
Here is what our participants say about our courses and being part of a global movement for justice. Also, check out our Facebook and Google reviews for more past participant voices.
As I look back on 2025, one of the most transformative experiences was the 6‑week intensive training on Justice-Based Approaches to Development Work with United Edge. This wasn’t just a course; it was a journey of deep learning, unlearning, and reimagining. We explored human rights-based approaches and rights-based programming, not as abstract frameworks, but as living principles that can shape how we engage with communities, policies, and each other. What made it truly special were the people. The facilitators carried such dedication and care, guiding us through complex ideas with clarity and compassion. My colleagues and peers (coming from different corners of the world) brought passion, wisdom, and solidarity into every session. Together, we created a space of trust, courage, and shared purpose. I leave this training with a renewed commitment: to center justice in my everyday work, to amplify voices that are too often unheard, and to carry forward the spirit of solidarity we built together. 2025 was insightful because of this journey. I am deeply grateful to the trainers for their brilliance and to my colleagues for their courage and companionship. May we continue to weave justice into all that we do. ✊🏽
George Ngoha
2026-01-01
What a life changing journey!
The JBA is all the world needs to shift the planet towards social and environmental justice.
Rene Christian Umukunzi
2024-01-29
This JBA Foundation Course is priceless. This is not just a training course, but it is a tool to change how we think, set intention and act to achieve certain impact. Some systemic problem root in our daily actions/ behavior which alot of time overlook, and with the JBA, we'll be aware of those actions and be able to unlearn, relearn and learn new alternatives.
Socheat Nhip
2025-12-31
Probably best training attended on justic so far
Hastings Gola Mwanza
2023-11-30
I attended the Justice Based Approach Course in 2025. I learned allot from each session. The Facilitators did a great job, and the participating colleagues were wonderful. I highly recommend anyone that cares about justice individualy and globally to attend it.
Ibrahim Bisharat
2025-12-31
I recently completed the United Edge Strategic Foresight course, and I am thrilled that I did. It has truly helped me to get more energized and hopeful about my own analytic effort, activism and political possibilities in general. Additionally, this course highlighted the collective and participatory basis of Foresight, which is a realization that I deeply enjoy. Thank you.
Jan Blažek
2023-11-03
I attended a course on JBA and it was very eye-opening and has helped my work so much. I also have got to understand the world better after the course!
Israel DingDing
2025-12-31
I attended the JBA Foundation Course in May/June 2022. It has been an amazing experience that has transformed my way of looking at social systems and has given me inspiration on how to change them in a just way. United Edge's team is great and the whole experience has been rewarding, enriching, and fun!
Federico Dessi
2022-11-06
I attended the Justice Based Approach training conducted by United Edge in 2025 and it was an insightful and inspiring experience! The facilitators were wonderfully dedicated and all sessions were engaging and informative. It provides a great foundation for integrating justice into your everyday life and work. It was also wonderful to connect with so many passionate peers and colleagues from all over the world.
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2025-12-02
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Thong Bai
2022-05-31
I really enjoyed attending the Justice-Based Approach training. It was a meaningful and eye-opening experience, and I’m genuinely grateful for how thoughtful, engaging, and well-organized the sessions were. Meeting people from different backgrounds and sharing openly added so much depth and connection to the journey. I truly appreciated the facilitators for creating a safe and welcoming space where everyone felt heard and respected. I’m leaving this training with new insights, fresh perspectives, and a real sense of personal growth. Hearing different viewpoints, challenges, and lived experiences also made the world feel a lot smaller in the best possible way by reminding me how connected we all are. It was a very enriching experience that I’m thankful to have been part of.
Hind Obeid
2025-11-18
As the founder and executive director of a nascent human rights organization, I find what I learnt from this course last year very handy this year. The course is a refreshing toolkit and a must have for those who are entering the civil society and NGO spaces for the first time.
It helps them avoid common mistakes made by those who seek to address every day injustice in the way they deliver their project work in their communities.
The course is very relevant because it also addresses the tricky conflict that arises as to whether the projects carried out by NGOs and civil society organizations should ideally be dictated by the needs of the donors or of the target communities.
This course comes highly recommend 👍🏽
Chizelu Emejulu
2022-04-04
I have enjoyed the Transformative Safeguarding course a lot and it was so informative accompanied with comprehensive discussion. Thak you United Edge.
Ragy Sabahelkhair
2025-03-24
If you interested in social issues and want to challenge the system, this is a highly recommended course. You will have an opportunity discuss this topic with inspiring trainers and participants from around the world.
Sopheary OU
2021-11-05
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"Great Training! With great trainers, one can get to know [one's] own passion, strength, and weakness through different activities of the training. This training is helpful for both organizations and individuals to make a change in one's life. [You] will get the chance to interact with different people . You will feel fruitful, as one can learn through interactive, sharing, group work and energizer games."
Participant from Empowering Women of Nepal
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"This training will make you question and challenge your own assumptions and mindsets. It will encourage you to think differently about existing systems and how you can design more participatory and inclusive programmes. I would strongly recommend this training, not just to those starting out their careers in development/social work, but perhaps even more so for those who have been in the line for so long that they stop asking questions and challenging themselves."
Participant from
WWF Malaysia
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"In every society, I still believe that there are many injustices, and our work and responsibility as civil society are to ensure that we bring justice to vulnerable and excluded group of people, so understanding the Justice Based Approach is so important to my work. It can show us the way to work for a better society."
Participant from ActionAid Cambodia
"If you've ever questioned current development models or your place within them, or better yet if you HAVEN'T questioned any of that, this will be a superb way to crack open your underlying assumptions and get you thinking of how you really want to approach your work in a comprehensive way."
Independent Participant, Vietnam
PARTICIPANT FEEDBACK
The Justice Based Approach course was launched in May 2017 -- first as a pilot to test the model and then scaled-up based on the positive feedback and results. Since then, we have trained over 1700 people from over 500 organizations at 38 separate events in 12 countries across Asia, the Pacific and Europe, as summarized in our 2017, 2018 and 2019 training overviews. In 2020 we held our first remote foundation course on the Justice Based Approach for 174 participants from 38 countries. In 2021 we expanded to more than 250 participants from 57 countries and in 2022 more than 260 participants in 66 countries. In 2022 we are also thrilled to be showcasing a new Transformative Safeguarding course that used the Justice Based Approach as a lens to improve how we keep people safe in our programmes.
We believe in the power of learning and accountability and evidence-based decision-making, so we gather evaluation data voluntarily at 3 key points to know what's working and what's not (based on a modified Kirkpatrick training evaluation model): during a course, via online survey immediately following a course, and via online evaluation 3 months after our courses.
A third of all participants have weighed in, and the results are surprising.
98% of participants would recommend the course to others working for social change
89% of participants now feel able to put their beliefs and passions into action in everyday life
98% of participants are satisfied or greatly satisfied with the course content and facilitation
76% of participants have used aspects of the Justice Based approach in their work since finishing the course
95% of participants agree or strongly agree that the course helped them see things in a new way
In addition, participants have rated us an average of 6 out of 7 for Good Value for Money and 6.1 out of 7 for Relevance to Their Work. We now have over 800 participants as part of our growing online community, forming a learning group for ongoing professional and personal development.
...of participants would recommend the course to others working for social change
PARTICIPANT FROM
WWF MALAYSIA
"It will open your mind to ideas you never realized you could have."
PARTICIPANT FROM
BRAC BANGLADESH
"It's different than any other training -- a new way of thinking and a new way of engaged learning."
PARTICIPANT FROM
GIZ CAMBODIA
"The training was the best motivation - and energy-boost - I had in my professional career."
PARTICIPANT FROM
WATERAID NEPAL
"The training session is really mind-opening: after having this training, it will definitely change everyone's way of thinking for development."
PARTICIPANT FROM
UNFPA BANGLADESH
"Justice based approach training is completely different than [any other] contemporary training, and it is a must-do training."
PARTICIPANT FROM
WORLD VISION CAMBODIA
"It is the best training I have ever had! It helped me think differently, opened my perspective, and [taught] a new way of doing development work!"
PARTICIPANT FROM
HUMANITARIAN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY PHILIPPINES
"A must-attend if one wants to be more effective, efficient, just, humane and simply better and smarter."
PARTICIPANT FROM
UN OCHA MYANMAR
"It's a different frame of thinking about perennial issues that puts people at the centre of any action."
PARTICIPANT FROM
OXFAM INDIA
"It is awesome and vision changing for professionals who want to think and work differently."
A MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE
Our 1700 plus course participants have come from a wide variety of organizations -- from international NGOs (57%) and national NGOs (25%) to UN agencies, government officials, foundations, donors, and independent activists and consultants.
They work to alleviate poverty, respond to humanitarian crises, advocate for human rights, protect the environment, develop health and education, empower young people, women, indigenous communities, differently-abled people, and other marginalized groups -- basically from every sphere of humanitarian, development, social change and environmental justice work.
Here are just a few of them...
