Dr Ndubuisi Ekekwe has been selected as one of Africa’s thinkers by Germany-based GIZ for its WE-Africa Lab on Building Wellbeing Economies in Africa . The WE-Africa Lab is an incubator involving 20/25 participants hailing from the following countries: Senegal, Ghana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa.
The WE-Africa Lab uses a unique combination of deep dialogue on content challenges, leadership development and change facilitation. The process makes space for new perspectives, enabling profound reflection, experiential learning, and tangible action to empower participants to advance their work and that of their home organisations significantly.
The WE-Africa Lab will provide a space of inquiry and experimentation around the following core objectives:
- Fostering individual and collective leadership. Dynamic and complex realities call for collective leadership focusing on enabling collaboration, rather than heroic leadership pushing for unilateral decisions.
- Encouraging cross-sectoral collaboration. The Lab will provide an opportunity to develop and consolidate links between a diverse group of people, committed to a pro- found social, political and economic transition in Africa.
- Developing transformative action. The Lab will provide an experimental space that merges research and practice with a view to generating innovations for a wellbeing economy. Transformative actions may be small-scale or span across countries and partners.
- Supporting a continental network of change makers. Through its research-action orientation, the Lab will contribute to the development of a continent-wide network of change agents. The Lab will strengthen the WE-Africa network, an alliance spanning the continent and involving more than 50 change leaders, which will guarantee the sustainability and long-term efficacy of the Lab.
- Impacting global discourses on development. Ideas, fin- dings, recommendations and transformative actions that emerge during the Lab process will be fed into relevant networks to impact the global debate on development in the 21st century
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