Public Energy Futures Forum: Reimagining Africa's Energy Future
Set during the Africa Climate Summit/Africa Climate Week on Friday 8th September 2023, the Society for International Development (SID) in collaboration with the Heinrich Boll Foundation and the Next Generation Foresight Practitioner (NGFP) Climate Futures Hub hosted an engaging and transformative forum that looked to the horizon of Africa's energy potential under the banner of "Reimagining Africa's Energy Future: An Intergenerational Visioning Exercise
On Monday 22 July 2024, SID, in partnership with Heinrich Boll Foundation, hosted the Sustainable Energy Futures Project public virtual workshop under the theme ‘Energy Policy & Dilemmas of a Just Transition'.
The Youth Dialogue on Sustainable Energy Futures for Namibia, hosted by Society for International Development in collaboration with Namibia Youth Energy Forum, was held on 5 July. This event provided a platform for young Namibians to reflect on the current energy landscape and strategize their involvement in shaping Namibia's energy future.
On 21 June, SID co-organized, together with other civil society partners, a side event to the 56th session of the Human Rights Council. Panelists discussed a new report analyzing civil society engagement in UN fora, and proposed ways forward to promote the protagonism of people and grassroots organizations.
On May 25, 2024, in Geneva, the Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2) convened a civil society workshop ahead of the 77th session of the World Health Assembly (WHA77). The workshop aimed to provide a space for common reflection and exchange on the escalating violence and humanitarian crises mounting globally, with a particular focus on conflicts in the Middle East, Sudan and Ukraine.