Africa for SDGs seeks to promote participation in the realization of the SDGs in Africa by mobilizing and providing platforms that activate conversations and forums to increase awareness of these 17 universal goals in order to come up with innovative, implementable and scalable ideas that meet urgent social, economic and environmental challenges facing Africa.
Our unique role is to provide knowledge, skills and attitude that will encourage innovation and facilitate partnership with various stakeholders and communities for implementation. The initiative promotes youth mobilizing and organizing for participation in practical ways that Contributes towards eradication of poverty and all forms of inequality. It acknowledges the youth bulge and seeks to ensure that it does not undermine economic growth, peace and security in Africa.
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ESD
Education for Sustainable Development
LADA
Leadership and Development Academy
Alongsiders
LIFE
Project Interfaith
About
Fellows Journey Process
RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION
A call for fellows will be put out, successful candidates will attend a day induction on ESD, fill an SDGs lab, do a pitching of their initiative before a panel. Thereafter the selection process will commence and acceptance letters sent out to successful applicants who will be later invited for an introduction and orientation session before official commencing of the training.
TRAINING AND IDEATION
The fellows come up with innovations and looks into expanding these ideas into initiatives.
INCUBATION AND ACCELERATION
The fellowship program commences with skills training on the modules that are designed for the program. The fellows will be required to come up with creative ideas which meet the needs of the community and implementable.
IMPLEMENTATION AND SCALING
Fellows will be expected to implement a community project and mobilize local communities towards sustainable of the projects.
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Call To Action
Each and everyone of us has the ability to make change to our personality, to the family, to the community, to the country, to the region, to the continent and to the whole world towards a better future. In this initiative everyone is welcome aboard to participate in making these goals be attained
In September 2015, world leaders at the UN unanimously adopted Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development [4], one of the most ambitious and important global agreements in recent history. The agenda, which came into effect on 1 January 2016, aims to set the world on a path
towards a better future for all by 2030. At the heart of the agenda are the 17 SDGs (sometimes referred to as the Global Goals) and their 169 targets. The SDGs are a set of priorities and aspirations to guide all countries in tackling the world’s most pressing challenges, including ending poverty and hunger; protecting the planet from degradation and addressing climate change; ensuring that all people can enjoy prosperous, healthy and
fulfilling lives; and fostering peaceful, just and inclusive societies free from fear and violence.
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ESD
Education for Sustainable Development
Africa for SDGs; My Goals Foundation commits with a sense of urgency to an Education for
Sustainable Development (ESD) towards the realization of the SDGs initiative. This initiative
provides a single, renewed education agenda that is holistic, ambitious and aspirational, leaving
no one behind. This is to reaffirm the vision of the worldwide movement for Education for All
initiated in Jomtien in 1990 which was later re-iterated in Dakar in 2000. The Muscat agreement
which was adopted at the Global Education for All (EFA) in 2014 after broad consultations helped
inform the proposed education targets on the SDGs thus making this concept for Education
for Sustainable Development (ESD) for SDGs timely and urgent. It is relevant as it echoes the
1994 Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on special needs education and the 1993
UN Standard Rules for Equalization by promoting inclusivity, encouraging decentralized and
participatory learning for vulnerable, marginalized and persons with disability ESD for SDGs initiative seeks to provide capacity in form of knowledge, skills, values
and attitudes while incubating and accelerating innovative ideas that contribute
towards creating awareness around the global Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs), and promoting their integration in development plans, public action,
advocacy and accountability. The program seeks to inspire youth involvement and
participation in the mainstreaming of SDGs through the ESD, while exploiting the
positive elements of the demographic bulge in Africa and leaving no one behind.
Indicative Strategies
1. With a median age of 19.4 in Africa, and the largest population of Africa spending most
of their time in learning institutions, this program seeks to activate learning institutions as hubs
that equip learners, teachers and education managers as SDGs champions and activate them
as agents towards the realization of sustainable development through the practical engagement
with the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).
2. Indicatively, learners from all learning institutions of both sexes and ages will be
provided with opportunities to acquire, throughout life the knowledge, skills, values and
attitudes to build peaceful, healthy and sustainable societies.
3. Students will develop a holistic outlook on the world around them having being
equipped with the ability to distinguish different aspects of life as interconnected system
which can be transformed by their active engagement in finding solutions through
innovative ideas.
4. In contribution to the 1994 Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on
special needs education and the 1993 UN Standard Rules for Equalization by promoting
inclusivity, the initiative will recognize and encourage learners with special needs to
participate in innovative solutions and promotion of the rights of persons with disability.
5. In the spirit of the Jomtien 1990 declaration of Education for All and the Dakar
Framework for Action, the initiative seeks to promote inclusion of the vulnerable and
marginalized learners in innovation and lifelong learning.
6. This initiative will appreciate the critical role that teachers play as agents of change
and key facilitators in incorporating sustainability in learning by building their capacity to
increase their competence in facilitating ESD for SDGs.
7. As a motivation, the program will partner with other stakeholders to come up with
awards and scholarships to scale effective innovative ideas and solutions from the ESD
and SDGs champion students and teachers who will have successfully disseminated good
practices on education for sustainable development and global citizenship education
within and between countries to enhance international cooperation and understanding.
8. With focus on innovation through the strengthening of agriculture, arts, culture
and science, technology, engineering and mathematics education (STEM), the program
seeks to promote innovative participatory innovation for all participants, learners and
educators in order for them to engage practically and proactively in finding solutions
to the challenges in their communities and societies using locally available means and
materials focusing.
9. Considering the importance of culture in achieving sustainability, the program
will promote conditions and the awareness of cultural expressions and heritage and their
diversity in learning and the realization of the sustainable development goals.
10. Based on UNESCO’s outcome document of the Technical Consultation on Global
Citizenship Education, learners will come out with deep knowledge of global issues and
universal values such as justice, equality, dignity and respect in order to foster values that
promote human rights.
LADA
Leadership And Development Academy
This is a joint initiative with the ICY Africa, Springdale College, UK, GULL University California, The Alongsiders, Minnesota Graduate School, and other capacity building partners to provide relevant knowledge, skills and attitude necessary for global leadership and sustainable development.
This is the capacity building arm of the Africa for SDGs Fellows program which can lead or contribute towards achieving a short course certification or professional diploma, BA, Masters and PhD. SO1) To provide knowledge, skills, attitudes and values for effective and transformative leadership through training on leadership and Sustainable Development in collaboration with other capacity building partners
SO2) To provide a nexus between practice and theory in order to empower participants towards shaping a sustainable and resilient future. ongoing
ALONGSIDERS
Alongsiders program is an initiative aimed at promoting child outreach and evangelism by targeting children from disadvantaged urban slums and villages to equip them with good values and knowledge through the use of comic books
L.I.F.E
Leadership Innovation Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship
Leadership, Innovation, Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship for SDGs (L.I.F.E) – Women and Refugees
This program is tailored to empower women and Refugees who are vulnerable, marginalised, unskilled and at risk for unemployment and poverty.
L.I.F.E for SDGs aims to inspire and equip women and refugees with knowledge, skills, values and positive attitude for leadership, enterprise opportunities and innovations that can transform their lives and communities. SO1) (i) To promote women, gender empowerment and refugees on leadership, innovation, financial literacy and enterprise building in order to promote their local economics and thereby improve the living standard of their families.
(ii) To promote women and refugees in leadership and advocate for opportunities for women engagement in leadership and business apprenticeship.
SO2) (i) To partner with like-minded partners to empower women groups and refugees and provide skills for innovative ideas and social enterprises for improved livelihoods.
(ii) To create awareness and advocacy on refugee rights while providing volunteer opportunities and support for young refugees ongoing
Date: January 2020
Client: Southwest
Category: Website Design
Project Interfaith
This program intends to partner with faith based institutions to promote integration of Interfaith values to address challenges affecting the community.Project Interfaith (Leaving No Faith Behind)
This program intends to partner with faith based institutions to promote integration of Interfaith values to address challenges affecting the community.
Project Interfaith program ensures that faith based institutions create platforms that nurture, inform, activate participation and network youth workers for transformative leadership and community development
This program ensures that faith based institution create platforms, partnerships and initiatives to explore the roles of religion and religious actors in transformative leadership for sustainable development
O1. Mobilize, organize and establish learning communities in faith based institution to build their capacity in collaborative strategies and equip them for youth works.O2. Transform faith based institutions into development centres in the community to change the public perspective of faith based organizations.O3. Inspiring community building programs that educate and engage audiences on issues of faith, religion, identity, belief, and culture;O4. Ensuring access to reliable information and resources on religious diversityO5. Promoting objective teaching and learning about Religious & cultural diversity in age-appropriate, academic ways in schools, workplaces, and communities to promote inter religious peaceful coexistence contribute towards achieving the SDGsO6. To encourage an informed united front to contribute towards shaping attitudes, opinions and behaviours, economic and environmental issues affecting the communities and nations
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Date: January 2020
Client: Window
Category: Photography
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BUSIA COUNTY
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NAIROBI COUNTY
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KELVIN OTIENO
SIAYA COUNTY
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NAIROBI COUNTY
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HESBON OGERA
NYAMIRA COUNTY
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MERU COUNTY
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MGENI NASSORO
KWALE COUNTY
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EDWIN KIMUTAI
Chief Executive, Oxfam Great Britain
Danny Sriskandarajah
Dr. Danny Sriskandarajah has been CEO of Oxfam Great Britain since January
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