News We celebrate our 20th anniversary
In October 2022, the URBIS FOUNDATION is 20 years old. We celebrated this milestone with the founding family, colleagues and long-time supporters of the foundation at an anniversary conference. It was especially nice to have six of our Togolese colleagues from the URBIS FOUNDATION Togo with us. We had invited them to Germany for this anniversary. With them was our longest employee Fousseni Morou, who has been with us since 2002.
We used the two-day event on 24 and 25 September for exchange and discussion on various topics: Fundraising, Technology Transfer, Social Entrepreneurship and Gender. With the keynote speech "Gender in Development Cooperation" held by Lara Biel, development policy officer at Plan International, we deliberately created an impulse for all participants to question this aspect in their own work. A special highlight was our future workshop where we all collected ideas for the next 20 years of URBIS FOUNDATION.
Take a look back with us at the multifaceted work of the URBIS FOUNDATION. Click here for our anniversary brochure (in German).
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View into the plenum -
Appreciation of our colleagues (from left to right: Bärbel Epp, Daouda Adam, Fousseni Morou, Islam Memem, Wahabou Moumouni, Chérif Kpandja, Farouk Mama)
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Lara Biel, development policy officer at Plan International during her keynote -
Exchange during the future workshop (Copyright all pictures URBIS FOUNDATION)
Further contributions
Beekeeping as a catalyst for sustainable development and environmental protection in Togo
In collaboration with Case Togo, the Urbis Foundation has successfully implemented the project ‘Beekeeping and sustainable protection of the ecosystems of the Eweto mountain’ in the prefecture of Kpélé, Togo.
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Solar Irrigation in Togo: Successful project implementation with GIZ
Our joint project with GIZ (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) on solar irrigation in the central region of Togo is ending today.
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The right time to listen is always now: 20 years of PFIM with Gerry McCarthy
For two decades, Gerry McCarthy has been travelling the world with his workshop "People First Impact Method" (PFIM) to convey a central principle: There is never a wrong moment to listen to people.
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