MAMA HOPE Sustainability Conference 2018
MS TCDC, Usa River, Arusha, Tanzania | August 13–17, 2018
Join us for our 4th annual Partners Sustainability Conference, where we’ll continue to explore the definition of sustainability and discover tools and strategies we can put to use to encourage sustainability within our own organizations and communities. During the 4-day conference, through a variety of activities and with the help of some amazing collaborators, we will work together to visualize sustainability at all levels — the project work level, the internal organizational level, the community and environmental resilience level and at the level of national policy making.
WHAT SUSTAINABILITY MEANS
We’ll look at financial, social, environmental
and political understandings of this important term.
SYSTEMS OF CHANGE
The interconnected systems that they are part
of and that impact you, your work and your community.
ADVOCACY
Learn how you and your community
can get involved in policy change.
ETHICAL MEDIA ADVOCACY
Dig inside cultural influences on the images
and stories we share in media.
GLOBAL ADVOCATES
The vision, direction and potential
support from MAMA HOPE’s trained volunteers.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Explore new tools and knowledge that will
help you build holistically sustainable businesses.
Build Lasting Connections!
Civil Society Organizations & Advocacy Networks
Funding & Support Organizations
MAMA HOPE Partners from Across Africa
Monday August 13th
Welcome Session Reconnections Introductions
Tuesday August 14th
Reflection: An introspective activity, allowing participants to reflect on their work and their role;
Setting the stage for collaboration, openness, and vulnerability throughout the week.
— Mama Hope Sustainable Programs Team
Success in Sustainability: An opportunity for participants to celebrate each others’ successes this year and share ideas that could benefit others’ work (ie. PHE Program in Budondo, Mushrooms in Bawjiase)
— Denis Muwanguzi, Samwiri Mugaya, Bernard Boateng, Winifred Sekwiha, Mama Hope Sustainable Programs Team
Challenges in Sustainability: An open space for participants to reflect on challenges and areas of restriction in reaching goals
— Mama Hope Sustainable Programs Team
Sustainability Revisited: Reflecting on how participants’ concepts of sustainability have grown over the years;
Broadening understanding of different layers of sustainability and laying the groundwork for the rest of the week
— Mama Hope Sustainable Programs Team
Wednesday August 15th
Growing our Understanding of Sustainability: Exploring what sustainability looks like beyond financial equilibrium. Looking at how each area of our work relates to the others and the world around us.
— Denis Muwanguzi, Mama Hope Sustainable Programs Team
Beyond Financial equilibrium: Success in Holistic Businesses: A space for participants to address business challenges and explore strategies and tools for avoiding or overcoming them in a way that benefits their organization, the people they support, the environment, and their communities.
— Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania Facilitator
MAMA HOPE and Financial Sustainability: An open and honest overview of MAMA HOPE’s work with organizational self-sufficiency and our strategies for growth, strengthening empathy and connection with our partners and opening space for conversations around how we can support each other.
— Lauren Wright, Mama Hope Program Director
Thursday August 16th
Introduction to Advocacy for Social Change: Exploring rights and advocacy and the various channels through which participants can engage in it; Building an understanding of how advocacy relates to sustainability in participants’ work.
— George Mugamangi, Kenya Youth Climate Network
— MAMA HOPE Sustainable Programs Team
Advocacy, Environment, and the Value of Grassroots Voices (KYCN)
— George Mugamangi, Kenya Youth Climate Network
Advocacy Focussed Panel Activity: How can we ensure grassroots voices are heard in national decision making processes?
— Advocacy World Cafe Activity with Panel Members
Friday August 17th
Global Advocate Program: Mix of brainstorming, discussion, and feedback to collectively understand the scope, potential, challenges, and value of the GAP program for MH partners. Exploring the integration of all variations of the program and how Global Advocates fit into new definition of sustainability.
— MAMA HOPE Global Advocate Team
Ethical Storytelling: Looking at how we can use media/marketing as an advocacy tool, and exploring ethical storytelling.
— MAMA HOPE Media and Marketing Team
Sustainability 2.0: Exploring how we think about sustainability now, after all our conversations throughout the week.
— MAMA HOPE Sustainable Programs Team
Moving Forward: Common creation of a plan moving into the next year and beyond to grow holistic sustainability, with a focus on engagement in advocacy for policy change.
— MAMA HOPE Sustainable Programs Team