Resilience Through Our Lenses: Reflecting, Connecting, Acting Together
About the session
Across Africa and beyond, resilience is shaped by overlapping challenges including climate change, epidemic risk, fragile health systems, food insecurity, shrinking fiscal space, and youth unemployment. These pressures do not exist in isolation. They reinforce one another in ways that are deeply felt in people’s daily lives and work.
This interactive session invites participants to reflect on their own lived experiences of resilience within this broader context. Through guided small group conversations, participants will connect personal and professional perspectives, surface how these challenges intersect, and explore what it means to respond in more coordinated and systemic ways.
The session will focus on shared reflection and dialogue, creating space for participants to learn from one another and consider how more collaborative, networked approaches can strengthen advocacy and action.
Who this is for
This session is for practitioners, advocates, and leaders working across climate, health, food systems, and economic development who are interested in connecting their work to a broader understanding of resilience.
What you will get out of it
Space to reflect on your own experience of resilience in the face of interconnected challenges
A deeper understanding of how issues such as climate, health, and livelihoods reinforce one another
Insights from peers working across different sectors and contexts
A shared exploration of how collaboration and networked advocacy can support systemic change