Econet is supporting Hope Rootz CBO to run a gathering as a Bioregional Group Confluence for the r3.0 Conference 2025. Here are the details for that Bioregional Gathering
BIOREGION NAME: Great Lakes Regions (KEN)
See overall r3-0 local confluences web page here: https://conference2025.r3-0.org/confluence/
AND the pdf Guidance to running a confluence here:
MAIN Great Lakes Regions GATHERING CONTACT PERSON: Horace Otieno
(Map of bioregion needed here)
r3-0 CONTACT PEOPLE ()
DATES:
LOCATION:
PROGRAM:
The overall program consists of
9-10 Morning Yoga / Stretch / Exercise and refreshing drink
10-15 Welcome from Hope Roots
10-15-11:00 TALK 1
11-11.15 Break / coffee / networking 1
11:15-12:00 Training Financial Planning as a Tool
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-13:15 TALK 2
13:15-14:00 Training Poverty in our Community & Strategies to Uplift ourselves
14:00-14:15 Break / coffee / networking 2
14:15-14:45 TALK 3
14:45 - 15:30 Presentation of organisations PechaKucha style
15:30-16:00 r3.0 What is bioregionalism? What is r3.0?
16:00-16:15 break
16:15-17:00 Final session: Open Space Technology (future collaborations) / Fishbowl / Close of formal session -
16:15 free time to network, leave
TALKS depend on who comes.
LETTER OF INVITATION:
Dear ......
We are inviting you / your organisation to take part in a Bioregional Gathering. This bioregional gathering is the first to take place in Kenya as far as we are aware. It is connected to the r3-0 Conference. This Kenyan gathering will take the form of a confluence. There are 18 confluences taking place all around the world.
The cost for you to take part is free, though we are happy if you are able to contribute to the costs via a donation of money, air time, or in the form of future commitment in a commitment pool. We have 2 main aims in the conference:
1. To explore community economics in our setting. To this end we will be running some trainings and would value your participation in them. 2. To connect the idea of bioregionlism to our local work here in Kenya. To do this we will give some presentations and talks.
This confluence will help us connect to you and for us to show you what Hope Rootz CBO has been engaged in. We look forward to getting to know your work and hope that future collaborations will be possible. We also hope that the r3-0 Conference process can be engaged with and so we will collectively connect to that conference and the work that is being done by participants in that endeavour at the other confluences.
The overall aim of the r3-0 Conference process is to adapt our societies to the pressures of climate change on agriculture, people, nature and our livelihoods. "Confluences are a means of advancing their own bioregional governance, strategizing, project development, etc." We will give a deeper explanation of these aspects at the gathering.
Please let us know if you would like to participate in the confluence and we can then discuss how that might look like, so that you can show your work, connect with us in solidarity and finalise the program.
The contact for the Great Lakes Regions (KENYA) confluence is Horace Otieno
More details and the working program can be seen on Econet:
https://www.e-c-o.net/wiki/Econet/Confluence
Details about the r3.0 Conference (9,10,11 September) can be seen here:
https://conference2025.r3-0.org/confluence/
and the planned agenda is here:
https://conference2025.r3-0.org/agenda/
Yours expectantly
Horace Otieno Chairman Hope Rootz CBO
PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS & INDIVIDUALS (main individual/s):
Econet Marcus Petz
Hope Rootz CBO Horace Otieno
Teens Fighting to Rescue & Restore Lake Victoria (Millicent Olal-Muchilwa)*
Grassroots Economics (Will Ruddick)*
Green Vision Network CBO*
VSO Kenya a UK based international development INGO*
Uplifting Others (Franziska Self Fisken)*
- To be confirmed
NOTES
Andrius, Horace and Marcus write details for the page https://conference2025.r3-0.org/confluence/
BIOREGION: Great Lakes Regions (KEN)
Expression of Interest Confluence
Bioregional Group Confluence (mid-sized: ~10-20 people) gatherings of emerging bioregional groups in need of logistical support to host in their own venues (€6k available to share equally amongst Confluences)
Financial Support: If you want to be remunerated, you will need to send a proper invoice to hello@r3-0.org after the event (r3.0 will do its utmost to pay proper invoices within 14 days of receipt).
Further Guidance: r3.0 and our Advocation Partner AndNowWhat? will offer support guidance and 2-3 Confluence Organizer Calls in the runup to the Conference. Are you interested in joining these calls, or at least receiving more information about them?
Filled in this form https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/1FAIpQLSekFDcbindWrkBULeatZZ1futZS4-fJf3eeSLyf6EGfAwWGrw/formResponse on 18.2.2025. Horace is the contact.
In connection with this Conference https://conference2025.r3-0.org/
Details about the Bioregional contacts for confluences are to be sent to: hello@r3-0.org
The list of all Bioregional Confluences are: https://conference2025.r3-0.org/confluence/
The page Social technology covers confluence under
Congressing
History of Congressing:
https://www.r3-0.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/A-HISTORY-OF-NABC-HAENKE.pdf
https://www.r3-0.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/A-PERSONAL-HISTORY-OF-OACC-HAENKE.pdf
INFO about ecological economics https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/david-haenke-on-bioregionalism-ecological-economics-77be911685ce
See Congressing thread for a bioregional congress as a social technology.
This can be expanded into the idea of a confluence. There are plans for some confluences to happen around the R3.0 Conference 2025 which follows on from the 2024 and is also discussed on the And Now What Facebook group and is being considered by Hope Rootz - see their wiki page for expression of interest.
Uplifting stories The Lake is also troubled by the effects of climate change, pollution and other man made problems such as industrialisation and extraction of sand for the construction industry. You can see more about these issues in this talk: TEENS FIGHTING TO RESCUE & RESTORE LAKE VICTORIA, AFRICA--from the triple planetary threat of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss, presented by Millicent Olal-Muchilwa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnVv3APSk1A .