Our plans for a professional exchange this year was hugely impacted by COVID-19. Alternatively, we adapted to the use of online collaboration formats to bring together professionals and passionate individuals from Dar es Salaam and Hamburg. On 23rd, 27th and 30th Nov, 2020, DAKA brought together 24 participants in a seminar called “Meeting Halfway–On Sustainable Development Solutions”. The seminar provided an overview of the two most recent global frameworks for development –SDGs and the Paris Agreement. DAKA also engaged participants in a dialogue on Complex Systems and various tools for community driven social change in an attempt to address the following broad but common questions:
1. How relevant are the international frameworks to real sustainable development?
2.Which competencies are needed to work in complex systems?
3. How can we use our local insights to address critical global challenges?
4. How can we benefit from global cooperation with less impact on the climate?
The seminar was facilitated by Sarah Nuedling, a consultant and professional facilitator in the field of sustainable development and global citizenship education, Yusuph Masanja, projects planning, visual collaboration coach and the ClimateForce ambassador to Tanzania, as well as Darin Wahl, a Phd Researcher in Sustainability Studies at Lund University.
Thank you so much for the organization of an interesting meeting even in COVID times, looking forward to the next meeting
– Andrea Krieger, Ministry of Social Affairs in Hamburg.