1st ECHO East Africa Symposium on Appropriate Technology Innovations and Renewable Energy 9 – 11 August, 2023 | Arusha, Tanzania
Presented By: ECHO East Africa
Register Before:
August 11, 2023 15:21
Event Contact:
Sophia Kasubi / Erwin Kinsey (skasubi@echocommunity.org / ekinsey@echocommunity.org)
Phone: +255764756334 /+255754480184
Greetings! You are invited to join us for the 1st ECHO East Africa Symposium on Appropriate Technology Innovations and Renewable Energy! With great anticipation we hope that the topics discussed this week and networking will significantly impact our future collaborations. A wide array of speakers with different objectives, approaches and skills have been called together, whose converging mission still has a surprising unity:
- to reduce poverty, hunger and physical hardship by engaging smallholder farmers more effectively to adapt their farming systems with agroecological holistic approaches
- to respond to climate change and declining yields in Africa with sustainable options which improve the environment, regenerate forests, soils and water catchments, recycle resources and mitigate the effect of weather extremes
- to enhance resilience of the vulnerable and to care for the earth
ECHO takes this opportunity to thank all participants for investing time and resources by attending, and especially to the 29+ facilitators who have come from all corners of the globe and local appropriate technology exhibitors to share their knowledge and experiences in Wednesday’s fair/exhibition. The symposium offers opportunity to raise our awareness of issues, propose best practices worthy of scaling up, and introduce us to new partners, agricultural and agroforestry development organizations, public and private sector actors. A possible, ambitious result of this Symposium will be formation of hubs or communities of practice to consider how better to encourage each other in our work to help smallholder farmers and pastoralists to develop resilient systems.
Note:
If you or your organization pays for at least 30 participants (US$6000) you will be designatedamong the organizers of the symposia and have your logo displayed on banners, stickers, and other documents, and if you/your organization pays for 1 – 29 participants you will be regarded as a partner who will be encouraged to display your technologies openly for all three days.
We conceive of including the following technologies:
- Biogas for domestic and productive use
- Water hygiene and sanitation, productive use
- Food harvesting, processing and packaging
- Post harvest processing and handling
- Honey and beeswax harvesting and processing
- Milk and milk by products processing
- Solar energy for domestic and productive use
- Wind energy
- Conservation agriculture implements
- Livestock management and processing
- Seeds saving and sharing
- Draught power and implements
- Other livelihood related innovations
Event Details
Location
Arusha
P.0.BOX 15205 ARUSHA Arusha, Tanzania
Language
English
Registration
Cost
The cost of attending the East Africa Symposium has not increased: $200 USD equivalent per person which covers three mid-day meals, morning and afternoon teas, a banquet on the closing evening, and all materials. Please note that spouses of a paying delegate will only be charged $100 USD equivalent.
Payment Options
Payment may be made online in advance, OR at the door on the 9th August 2023 in the morning. If you wish to pay at the door, check the box ‘Bill Me Later’ while
Lodging
This symposium will be held at A1 Hotel and Resort (Off Ndorobo Rd, 11782 Burka Olasiti 23119, Arusha) . The venue is located within 800 meters from the Arusha Airport.
SPECIAL DISCOUNTED RATES TO SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS
SPECIAL RATES 2023
(BED & BREAKFAST)
STANDARD ROOMS
U$ 35 SINGLE OCCUPANCY
U$ 70 DOUBLE OCCUPANCY
EXECUTIVE ROOMS
U$ 45 SINGLE OCCUPANCY
U$ 90 DOUBLE OCCUPANCY
EXECUTIVE COTTAGE
U$ 50 SINGLE OCCUPANCY
U$ 100 DOUBLE OCCUPANCY
PRESIDENTIAL COTTAGE
U$ 100 SINGLE OCCUPANCY
U$ 120 DOUBLE OCCUPANCY
RECREATION ROOM (Minimum Budget) and NO TV (35,000) singles
All rates quoted are inclusive of all applicable Government Taxes.
Call /WhatsApp Reservation Manager: +255 655 318 023 OR +255 766 800 901
Food
MEAL RATES
AS PER THE DAILY MENU
Additional Opportunities
Speaker Interest? If you are interested in being a presenter or interested to demonstrate a technology during the ECHO East Africa Symposium, please reach out to Harold Msanya; ECHO East Africa Innovation Coordinator at hmsanya@echocommunity.org. If selected, you may receive a full waiver of the registration fee. You may also donate your waiver fee to another person who cannot afford to pay to attend the symposium.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for more information if needed. We look forward to seeing you.
Additional Information
Please wear your nametags: ECHO events are networking opportunities. This means you, the delegates, are the most important resource. Discuss during meals, evenings, and breaks any project that has worked well, a "good idea” and why it failed, a promising plant, how these integrate agricultural work with church activities, or other lessons learned in agriculture projects. Share your needs.