Walking into a Sri Lankan forest is like walking into a medicine cabinet. so said a farmer. And this is true because 1. There is immense bio diversity in such a small space 2. So much of our plant life has medicinal benefits, which supported the indigenous 'Hela...
Catalyst 2030's
Catalysing Change Week 2024
Building the Social Innovation Sector
6 - 10 May 2024
Closing the funding gap: Panel discussion with African Youth Ventures & Funders
An interactive panel discussion with comments and Q&A from session participants. The panel, chaired by Vickie Wambura the Chair of the Impact Makers Advisory Board (IMAB), and featuring two youth social entrepreneurs Paulo Mpokwa and Nima Kassim and their experiences...
Inclusive Systems: Digital transformation, youth empowerment, & gender equality
How can governments, funders and the private sector work together to build more inclusive systems? An interactive roundtable discussion focused around discussions at the country level in MENA and SSA from ministers with priorities in digital transformation and ICT,...
Taking on the HOW of Systems Change by developing Powerful Transformation System
Massive collaboration is required to address today’s big challenges and realize our flourishing potential. Share in the development of powerful "transformation systems" and "transformation catalysts" to address the qualities of scale, complexity and long time horizons...
Innovations for Economic Paradigm Shift
Socialism-capitalism-communism are 19th century approaches to economies. Social entrepreneurs are producing an eruption of new approaches to economies, with labels such as regenerative-, circular-, doughnut-, buen vivir, and well being. They are ushering in a huge...
Cómo impacta la migración en el cumplimiento de los ODS en América Latina
Session will be held in spanish with english translation. Esta sesión aborda las experiencias exitosas para promover la integración de los migrantes y refugiados y el cumplimiento de los ODS en América Latina. This session adresses the succesful experiencies to...
Ubuntu Leadership – Africa’s Gift to the SDG’s
A dialogue with Prof John Volmink on the powerful philosophy and practice of Ubuntu Leadership, the spaces where it is manifesting, and its relevance to our current world circumstances. How the practice of Ubuntu Leadership is an embodiment of civic consciousness, and...
Scaling across borders: Good practices and challenges to achieve the SDGs
ScaleChanger has been created following the observation that while many social and environmental solutions with compelling impact are emerging around the world, only a few manage to grow at a much larger scale to tackle significantly the problem that they are...
Digital Dialogue for Trans Women Entrepreneurs
This will be an advocacy dialogue to mobilize stake holders for the inclusion of transgender women in economic empowerment through entrepreneurship
Inclusivity in Education and Economic Empowerment
A 1.5-hour hybrid forum will be organised with a panel of speakers both local and foreign coming from the social, private, public and education sectors. Concurrently, a market place featuring the works of various local NGOs, NPOs and Social Enterprises that are...