#COPisHere: Support Social entrepreneurs who are working to protect and conserve our planet’s resources in Tanzania to make a positive difference in climate change.

3 min readMay 7, 2016

**The logo of OpenIdeo provided to help drive this event and activities in dealing with climate change**

Description of the event

Japhet A. Kalegeya is the #COPisHere event organizer at the beginning of his journey to encouraging social entrepreneurs who were working to protect and conserve our planet’s resources in Tanzania to make a positive difference in climate change.

**Japhet A. Kalegeya giving participants information on this event and its objectives in dealing with climate change**

The OpenIDEO offers tremendous opportunities to host event of local Climate innovators in the lively discussion, to share their work and excellent brainstorm on how might we support local climate innovators, in Nzega Tanzania, named Nzega event.

Where were the event hosted

The event were hosted in Nzega,Tanzania at 14/January/2016and the participants of this event were 14 social entrepreneurs who were working to protect and conserve our planet’s resources in Tanzania.

*Participants in the hall as they listened organizer as he gave details about this event*

Why did I want to host this event

Given the enthusiasm I received for my community to show greater need to work in response to climate change, has continued to give me the motivation to host this event. Climate change is the global challenge requires an equally global set of solutions. By supporting and collaborating with one another, we will carry these efforts beyond Paris and build on #COPisHere. Other event will be done at June 9- 11 2016.

The general content of this event

1. To share the works on climate change.

2. To lead brainstorming by using Human Centered Design methods

**Participants shared their experiences of their activities in response to climate change**

**Participants going through and look at the experience of stakeholders innovative climate change**

In this event we have not any special speakers although I longed to have them, but I lead a brainstorming using the system Human Centered Design

I am amazed by the commitment and passion my community has demonstrated toward tackling a complex, deforestation, environment degradation, sanitation, Biogas energy, Solar energy, beekeeping, water sources, as the big issue of tackling climate changes.

**Brainstorming conducted by using a system of Human Centered Design**

I would like to have other people to continue with us in other events from this #COPisHere event

Climate change is a cross cutting issue that requires the involvement of many stakeholders, from different communities to bring solidarity and sharing experiences to design new ways of dealing with climate change. So it’s important for me to be with other stakeholders from different communities to bring innovations in this area.