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2. As I work with colleagues across Africa, I am wondering what the group thinks about the future of remote facilitation as a career option for individuals,?or an important capacity/skill set for civil society organizations to?make sure they have. Any thoughts about the demand and value of such capacity???

I think it is a core capability and it is essential to have local capacity. For years I have been trying to find the business model/niche as I've helped build capacity, only to have the practitioners fail to find internal or consulting work beyond those serving the business sector (with their bigger scale/budgets) and while facing uneven connectivity/power challenges. With COVID there may be a turning point where these skills?make sense in every way. But building the capacity is not enough. There also has to be a sustainable business model/practice model.?

The other thing that I SENSE might be useful (sense, not KNOW!) is a network where we can refer people to find practitioners. I can easily refer to the handful of people I know and can recommend, but that is such a tiny micro sliver. Directories? Communities of practice at country, regional, language, domain levels? What would be useful? For example, within the global network we are trying to hold space for Africa based practitioners. There is an immersion workhop in Ghana starting soon which may be a good seed. What more is needed?

Nancy

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 3:16 PM William Aal <williamaal@...> wrote:

Anne,

?I would be interested to talk with you about both of these topics. I have been engaged as a volunteer with agriculture NGOs and networks that support agroecology on the ground and at policy levels and I am an opener and partner in two facilitation and event planning businesses.? So yes would be interested in partnering with others for the RFP.

On the second issue, in do believe there is a need for capacity building in online and in person facilitation.? ?I am also in contact with facilitation and participatory specialists on the continent. It would be interesting to develop? partnerships to innovate online processed and tools that come from the African experience in some kind of knowledge sharing. That could help the field as a whole.

Best,

Bill

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020, 1:31 AM Ann Hendrix-Jenkins <ann.hendrix-jenkins@...> wrote:

Hi all,

1. I am attaching a call for proposals which might be of interest to some of you.??

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Africa Regional Services (ARS) / Bureau of Africa Public Diplomacy (AF/PD) of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out virtual and in-person thematic programs in Africa.??

?Deadline for Applications August 17, 2020

2. As I work with colleagues across Africa, I am wondering what the group thinks about the future of remote facilitation as a career option for individuals,?or an important capacity/skill set for civil society organizations to?make sure they have. Any thoughts about the demand and value of such capacity?

Best,

Ann