THIS year’s CSO Week intends to enhance relations and partnerships geared at bolstering civil society’s engagement in Tanzania’s development.
Organisers of the week-long event, to be held from October 25 to 28 in Arusha, noted that the agenda of the CSO Week 2022 will also be directed towards ensuring that multi-sectoral actors are made a critical part of new collectives geared towards delivering development.
“It is meant to forge new and strengthen existing collectives aimed at addressing key development challenges and generating and exchanging ideas,” said CSO Week 2022 Coordinator, Dr Shirley Mushi.
Dr Mushi said overt 500 participants are set to attend this year’s CSO week, and will be one of its kinds.
The anticipated participants would come from the civil sector in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, government, development partners and the private sector.
“It will showcase the sector’s ever evolving and innovative approaches as a key stakeholder in development,” Dr Mushi emphasized when speaking on Monday, in Dar es Salaam.
The CSO week steering committee and organizers had officially launched the 2022 CSO week with the theme ‘People’s Development, People’s Stories’ which underscores that the people are CSOs most integral constituency, partners, and reason for existing.
The theme allows for critical reflection on the many approaches, systems, and processes used by CSOs to address the development challenges that Tanzanians confront, particularly those that are complex, deep-rooted, and long-standing. It also reaffirms CSOs’ and development actors’ commitment to transformative change.
The online registration for interested participants to attend the CSO week 2022 is open.
The online registration to attend the week-long event is open to the members of the public to register early to book their seats.
“I urge everyone to book their seats for the conference early. CSO Week 2022 will place citizens at the centre of its activities and discussions,’’ said Dr Mushi.