SAS+ Learning Event
Join Stopping as Success (SAS+) on OCTOBER 8 at 9am EST / 1pm GMT for a virtual learning event all about ensuring financial sustainability for the local entity during a transition from international to local ownership.
Financial sustainability is critical to any conversation about successful transitions and true locally led development. After transition, raising funds as a new local entity can be difficult, and decisions made before, during, and after a transition can have wide-ranging effects on a new organization’s ability to meet these challenges.
Hear from SAS+ accompaniment partners and more on their experiences with the process, and how ensuring financial sustainability can help shift power and support the long-term success of international/local partnerships.
This 90-minute virtual event will include a panel conversation followed by an interactive discussion on challenges and opportunities for financial sustainability during a transition process, as well as practical lessons learned. All are welcome to join.
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French & Spanish interpretation will be provided by NaTakallam, a social enterprise that creates livelihood opportunities for professional interpreters and translators from the Global South and forcibly displaced communities.
Speakers:
- Tala Bautista is a member of the Sumacher First Nation in Kalinga, Philippines. She got involved in the peacebuilding field in 2008 and currently works with Peacebuilders Community Inc. (PBCI) as Chief Operations Officer and with Coffee for Peace Inc. (CFP) as Senior Vice President. She is also currently serving as an adjunct faculty for the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding.
Her work with PBCI and CFP is focused on community organizing and advocacy to local leaders to adopt the Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) framework in their organizations. She helps develop the local communities’ own vision for peace, crafting contextually-based, culturally-sensitive strategies to address peace issues in their contexts. Her approach in peacebuilding work involves intensive listening and intentional relationship-building with the people most impacted by injustices. She believes that peacebuilding should be firmly grounded in people’s lived experiences, taking care to be sensitive to power differences and relations. - Bert Maerten is HelpAge International’s Head of transformation since April 2021. The role is to grow HelpAge’s strategic capability to transform and achieve its 2030 Strategy. The purpose of the Transformation team is to Articulate, Activate and Embed key initiatives that advances the transformation ambition of the organization.
Previously (May 2018-March 2021), he was HelpAge’s Head of Programmes for Asia Pacific where he oversaw programmes and partnerships on health & care, humanitarian preparedness and response, social protection, voice, etc.
Bert has worked for 20 years in the development sector in Asia and the Pacific. He has supported programmes, initiatives, partnerships and campaigns in relation to economic justice and climate change. He managed Oxfam’s global climate change campaign in the run up to, during and after the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. Bert managed campaigns in Southeast Asia and country programmes in Vietnam and the Pacific.
Bert has a background in international and development economics.
He is originally from Belgium and has lived in the Asia-Pacific region since 1999. He currently is based in Chiang Mai, Thailand.- Sameena Gul works as Head of Localisation with HelpAge International since April 2021. The Transformation ambition of HelpAge which is a locally led process based on consultations with the country teams and other stakeholders to identify a viable country transition option is led by Sameena and her team. The support to transitioned countries in their journey to become fully independent is guided by HelpAge’s aim to create an enabling environment for the growth and viability of the new entities and to shift power to local change agents.
Prior to this, Sameena was the Regional Head of Programme in HelpAge’s EME region. She worked for over 27 years in Asia, East Africa and the Middle East leading and managing programmes and partnerships under various thematic areas and raised funds for humanitarian and development programmes. She is passionate about change through strategic shifts, change in mindset and organisational culture. Sameena has MA in Public Administration and MS in Human Resource Development. She is based in Pakistan.
- Sameena Gul works as Head of Localisation with HelpAge International since April 2021. The Transformation ambition of HelpAge which is a locally led process based on consultations with the country teams and other stakeholders to identify a viable country transition option is led by Sameena and her team. The support to transitioned countries in their journey to become fully independent is guided by HelpAge’s aim to create an enabling environment for the growth and viability of the new entities and to shift power to local change agents.