Living with a Changing Climate Roundtable

Living with a Changing Climate Roundtable

By Ontario Council for International Cooperation (OCIC)

Date and time

Thu, Nov 24, 2016 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM EAT

Location

Kilpark Hotel

Bomani Street Bunda District, Mara Region Tanzania, United Republic of

Description

We are very pleased to extend a personal invitation to you to join CPAR Tanzania, the Ontario Council for International Cooperation (OCIC), and the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation (MCIC) for a Roundtable meeting, Thursday, November 25, 2016 from 2:00 – 5:00 PM, at the Kilpark Hotel, in Bunda, Mara.

This Roundtable will be an opportunity to network, and to learn more about the efforts of CPAR Tanzania, its many partners, and other important stakeholders in the region to mitigate climate change through conservation agriculture and other extension efforts, and to introduce and discuss the relevance of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to partners in Tanzania.

Canadian representatives of OCIC and MCIC are visiting Tanzania to meet with partners in various projects, and to attend a high-level meeting in Kenya with other civil society organizations and government leaders from around the world. We look forward to the opportunity to meet, and to share ideas and aspirations for the future.

Proposed Agenda:

  • Welcome & Introductions

  • Presentations of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • Roundtable Discussion: Living with a Changing Climate

Refreshment Break

  • Challenges & Opportunities to Strengthen Partnerships

  • Mapping Collective Assets & Ideas

  • Next Steps / Closing

We invite you to bring any visual materials that will help us better understand your work, and the ways your lives are changing as the climate changes in your region. With your permission, OCIC will document some parts of this Roundtable through photography and video in order to share your experience and views with Canadians.

Organized by

OCIC is a membership association of Ontario-based, not-for-profit, voluntary organizations and individual associates working both in the North and South for global justice.

As a Council, OCIC strives to increase the effectiveness and collective impact of its members' efforts to promote sustainable and people-centred development in a peaceful and healthy environment, and to educate and engage the Canadian public on global issues.

For more information visit http://www.ocic.on.ca

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