With only a few days left until the Fourth Edition of the Relinked Social Impact in Action Forum, we’re excited to share some updates and highlight the exciting opportunities, expectations, and learning experiences that await you at the event. The forum will take place on Friday, September 13, 2024, from 12:30 PM to 6:00 PM at the Senses Hub, Spring Valley Business Park in Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya, under the theme is Impact at Scale: Navigating Pathways, Insights, Enablers, and Barriers.
The guest list comprises people with tremendous experience, individuals and organizations grounded on purpose, and passionate social impact leaders creating change and positively disrupting systems. Networking with them will increase your pool of authentic contacts, and develop fruitful relations. Some of them will potentially form part of your diverse group of supporters, advisors, friends, and experts, to help drive your impact objectives.
The program is designed to help participants take a targeted approach to their intended impact whether at institutional, societal, or systemic levels. Participants will craft a vision for what needs to be done differently in their organizations and clearly articulate the change and impact they aim to achieve on a large scale, fostering thriving individuals, communities, and livelihoods. Additionally, they will learn how to infuse innovation into their work and explore investments, interventions, and partnerships.
All these will be delivered under the following topics:
- Planning for Impact at Scale; Systems innovation and technology as an enabler of impact at scale.
- Collaborating for scale; How to leverage collective efforts and partnerships across different sectors and actors to lead impact at scale.
- Impact in Action/Stories of Change/Making Good Famous Segment; Showcasing and amplifying the incredible work done by different organizations and change makers.
We are thrilled to announce Monicah Muhoya and Vincent Odhiambo as the Relinked Social Impact in Action Forum’s Fourth edition featured speakers!
Vincent Odhiambo, the Regional Director of Ashoka East Africa, will speak on the topic: Collaborating for scale; How to leverage collective efforts and partnerships across different sectors and actors to lead impact at scale. We will learn from Vincent’s experience, working in different sectors including Education, Social Services, International Development, and Social Impact sectors, serving in several leadership roles at national, regional, and continental levels. We will draw immense lessons from his expertise, which includes driving organizational development, transformative cross-sectoral collaborations, and social impact. As he has excelled at designing and implementing tailored interventions to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations, promoting collaborative workplace culture, facilitating change management, and providing guidance on leadership development, Vincent will empower participants to step up and chart clear pathways of change.
Monicah W. Muhoya will lead a discussion on Planning for Impact at Scale; Systems innovation and technology as an enabler of impact at scale. A seasoned social entrepreneur and a connector in the startup and tech space with significant past contributions across telecoms, startup, and software gaming industries, Monicah will draw lessons from her extensive experience in business strategy, corporate social responsibility (CSR), social protection, and advocacy for the empowerment of women and girls’ rights. Participants will tap into Monicah’s experience that spans across Sub-Saharan Africa and globally providing thought leadership through innovative business models to create impact to remove barriers that women and girls face leveraging digital technology, and her passion for leveraging technological advancements and multisectoral collaboration to create long-term, socially responsible solutions that empower communities especially the most vulnerable, girls and women.
We are also excited to have Norah Magero, CEO and Co-Founder of Drop Access, grace the event. She will share about her change-making journey and her impactful work focusing on clean energy, youth, and women-led innovation in Africa.
Norah is a 2024 Business Daily Top 40 Under 40 awardee, the first Kenyan and only the second woman to win the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation since its inception. One of her remarkable achievements is the invention of VacciBox, a solar-powered portable refrigerator for storing and transporting vaccines, medicines, blood, and other health-related items that require cold storage.
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The entire purpose of the Relinked Social Impact in Action Forum is to help the participants advance their mission and pursue a lifetime commitment to social impact. The forum exemplifies a commitment to building bridges, amplifying voices and promoting effective leadership and governance for impactful developmental outcomes. It leverages interconnected relationships, shared leadership, and collaborative efforts to create social and environmental impact at scale. Individuals also benefit from this active and supportive network as they become more resilient leaders who can sustain impact over the long run.
This purpose is demonstrated in a very important segment of the program, which features various individuals and organizations present, where they get to talk about their Stories of Change, and impact, affirming their theory of change, share their journeys towards impact at scale. It’s also a chance for them to examine their track record, theory of change, some of the changes that their interventions have brought about, and define what they want to grow into next, as time goes by.
The forum is one of the pathways to reaching more people with your programs and services.
For any questions, clarification, partnership requests, or direction on attendance, contact us via +254711625504 or communications@relinkednetwork.com.
