Impact/Scale Archives - Catalysing Change Week

People’s Report as a Pedagogy Tool for University Awareness to SDGs

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:02:33 +0000

This session will be held with university professors and students to discuss local awareness to the SDGs and the power of the people’s report to empower people and inform government, private sector and UN. Speakers’ bios: 1. Rana Dajani: Professor of molecular cell biology, Hashemite University, Jordan, Harvard Radcliff fellow, a Fulbrighter, Eisenhower fellow, Yale and Cambridge visiting professor. Research area: refugee youth and the epigenetics of trauma across generations and world expert on genetics of Circassian and Chechan populations in Jordan. Established stem cell research ethics law in Jordan. Advocate for biological evolution and Islam, Member UN women Jordan advisory council. Established a women mentor network, and received Partnerships for enhanced engagement in research (PEER) award 2014. Organized the first gender summit for the Arab world 2017. Most influential women scientists in Islamic World, 12 among100 the most influential Arab women, Global Changemaker Award for celebrating, President of the Society for the Advancement of Science, Technology and Innovation in the Arab World. Awarded the Jordan star of science by His Majesty King Abdullah II. Developed a community-based model “We love reading” changing mindsets through reading to create changemakers, received World Innovation Summit in Education Award 2014, King Hussein Medal of Honor 2014, UNESCO International Literacy Prize 2017, World Literacy Council Award 2018 and the Jacobs social entrepreneurship award 2018, Science, Technology and Innovation Award UN 2019, Ashoka Fellow 2019, UNHCR Nansen Refugee awardee 2020, Schwab Social entrepreneur 2022. Author of the book: Five scarves, Doing the impossible: If we can reverse cell fate why can’t we redefine success, Nova Publisher 2018. Reviewed by Nature. 2. Debbi D. Brock: an internationally recognized expert on social entrepreneurship and professional trainer and social change advocate for various organizations focusing on social entrepreneurship, scaling social impact and entrepreneurship education. In 2021, she was awarded her dream job working with social change leaders around the world as the Systems Learning and Development Facilitator with Catalyst2030. In 2018 she launched the Social Change Innovators online resource platform that shares innovative teaching and experiential activities with faculty from around the world that won the USASBE Excellence in Innovative Pedagogical award. In 2011, she was awarded the “Distinguished Service to the Field of Social Entrepreneurship Education” by AshokaU and won the “Best Paper in Social Entrepreneurship” award from USASBE in 2015. 3. Dr. Saleha Khumawala: is the Robert Grinaker Professor of Accounting, Executive Director of the Center for Economic Inclusion and the Founding Director of the SURE℠ (Stimulating Urban Renewal through Entrepreneurship) Program at Bauer College of Business, University of Houston. She teaches and does research in the fields of Government and Non-Profit Accounting and Social Entrepreneurship. She has published widely, has made numerous presentations at national and international conferences and has successfully led the Study Abroad India Program since 2002. 4. Rasha Istaiteyeh: An inspiring economist who would strive to serve her community development and in helping youth to access the labour market after understanding what is required from their supply side.

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Jordan Ecosystem Gaps and Solutions

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:02:31 +0000

This session is about identifying gaps in the SE ecosystem in Jordan and proposing solutions while working with stakeholders from government, private sector, civic society and academia.

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The Global Shapers and Catalyst 2030

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:02:28 +0000

With the largest youth population in history, there is an unprecedented opportunity for young people to take an active role in shaping the future. This generation has inherited enormous global challenges but has the ability to confront the status quo and offer youth-led solutions for change. The Global Shapers Community is a network of inspiring young people under the age of 30 working together to address local, regional, and global challenges. How can the Catalyst community and the Global Shapers Community work together to support the next generation of social innovators and create a platform for intergenerational collaboration and learning?

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Universal Data Ownership

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:02:27 +0000

The current discourse about data, which is being mass accumulated, aggregated and processed around the world, inevitably raises the question of what is the extent to which all this powerful information transcends the core principle of human rights, thus further widening the gap of the ever-growing challenges with inequality. It is undeniable that most of the data is nowadays being managed and controlled by developed economies, within which powerful actors have been leveraging its potential as a saleable commodity in the world economy, mostly for private wealth, often to the detriment of the billions of people and communities worldwide. We are also seeing a massive data imbalance. Data is expensive and relatively hard to obtain, thus favouring big companies and organisations to invest in a large amount of data and infrastructure for greater data control. Indeed, not complying with the established rules and guidelines about data privacy is the root cause of why such colonisation of data is possible. The Catalyst 2030 community, among many other organisations and individuals working in the social economy, relies on mass information; For people and organisations working towards a SE, the SDGs, and sustainable development, collecting and analysing data enables us to generate deep insights we need to guide our initiatives and innovation toward, thus improving our overall resource efficiency. Hence, in the silos of large multilateral organisations and on the ground through NGO and Citizen sector organisations, the sector controls much of such meaningful data, which enables us to learn about the challenges and work with people, communities, and nations worldwide proactively and collaboratively addressing these. As such, we must enact upon shared principles of data ownership, privacy and control; if not, we might become marginalised by large players in the world economy and potentially lose control of all this invaluable information.

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The Privilege Framework – prototyping of a community-driven and response tool

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:02:20 +0000

An interactive live demonstration of The Privilege Framework – a universally applicable open source community-driven assessment tool. Social entrepreneurs are aware that people have privilege when they are able to live with dignity. Inequity is measured by the numbers and the distance between the under-privileged and the over-privileged. We want a future that has harmony and thriving for the entire ecosystem. If every life form on the planet is given the same due as humans, then we begin to assess more than just human privilege. The Privilege Framework is being trialled by WG4:People Driven Development as a universally applicable open source self-assessment and response tool for a community. We invite you to be a co-creator.

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Beyond the Bounds of your Organization: Systems Influencing & Why it Matters!

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:02:19 +0000

To use a systems led approach to drive your organisation’s strategy and approach to the HOW of what you do include wide listening, non-inear approach, multi-perspective teams with lived experiences, sharing beyond the bounds of your organisation and connections. Since poverty is a multidimensional problem, Dara Institute developed an integrated and multidisciplinary approach to promote health for the entire family. Learn about a comprehensive systems approach to addressing poverty in Brazil using the family action plans that involve the family with health education and improvement, family education, citizenship and engagement, housing improvements and family income. During the session, you will be asked to reflect on how your organisation is systems led and what is missing or needs to be changed to make your organisation be led by systems.

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Systemic Innovation and Climate Action

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:02:18 +0000

The workshop will present the concepts and connections of systemic innovation and climate action along with strategic thinking to build resilience systems with case studies, initiatives and solutions that will be present with us on the panel. The panel will also have a cross-cutting objective to inform and train participants in the core competencies of the future, such as digital and green skills. For this purpose, collaborative and interactive digital platforms will be used during the panel in order to foster teamwork and networking. Participants will learn about innovative programs, tools and resources to activate systemic innovation and climate action in their learning ecosystems and environments.

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Powerful Tools for Authentic Collaboration to Advance the SDGs

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:02:11 +0000

Competition is part of the old system that must change to achieve the SDGs. However, as we shift the paradigm towards greater collaboration, there are few roadmaps to follow. We need practical tools, processes and examples to accelerate this change. Join this interactive session exploring barriers and opportunities to create greater collaboration within and beyond the development sector. Building on a case study of an innovative partnership between the entrepreneurship training organization Street Business School and global NGO BRAC, we will look at how partnership challenges were overcome and then crowd source your challenges and triumphs in creating authentic partnerships to build the roadmap. Walk away from this session with tools to create powerful collaborations that you can put into practice tomorrow to accelerate your – and others – progress towards the SDGs.

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Building a strong executive summary and pitch for your organization

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:02:09 +0000

We will go over how to articulate a pitch (deck, executive summary) with key components and flow, providing examples of how to set up content to communicate effectively

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In the mirror of Tamkeen – realising a humanising society

Ajit Vahadane — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:02:09 +0000

Karima Kadaoui (Tamkeen) and Louis Klein (EUSG) will share, in conversation, the story of Tamkeen. It is a story of growing a shared understanding of governance and change in social ecosystems realising the magnitude of silent transformation in metamorphic fields. It is a story of the co-reflected experience of deeply human relationships. It is a co-created and co-facilitated process of inquiry, learning, and understanding, embedded in epistemic humility, trusting our human potential, trusting our humanity, realising the existentiality of love. It is the story of growing a humanising society. It is also a story of the ongoing process of Tamkeen growing its understanding of its own understanding in the mirror of systems science. And it is the story of how systems research reflects itself in the mirror of Tamkeen.

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