Monday (3rd) and Tuesday (4th) are dedicated to the Young Global Leaders Annual Summit 2010.
Monday 3rd:
Began the day with welcome remarks from Lawrence Masha (Tanzania Minister for Home Affairs and Dr Ahmed Salim Salim former Tanzania Diplomat and now Ex Dir of Julius Nyerere Foundation). Fascinating stuff. Masha is 40; good to see a young and articulate African give a good impression to the 300 YGL’s in attendance.
We were divided into several clusters that will embark on impact journeys across various communities to review several social economic projects.
I belong to the water and environment cluster and on monday 3rd we visited an operation of the Tanzania Forest Conservation Group two hours outside Dar. Great bus journey with some brilliant YGL’s, great discussions too on the difficulty of measuring impact in such short time frames, and the scope of the development challenges that both public, NGOs and private sectors face.
Tuesday 4th:
We are now in the Mlimani City Conference Centre giving cluster group feedback. Interesting suggestions from Arthur Mutambara (Deputy PM, Zimbabwe), Von Jones (Obama’s former Green Tzar) is managing the session.
Conclusion is that there has to be an national vision to address the development strategy of the nation here, better stakeholder cross sector participation for greater understanding and impact and also stronger linkages with YGLs with ability to make a contribution; where they have relevant skill sets.
11.55am – Going in to plenary session now…..
