BACK TO EVENTS

DATE: Wednesday 22

TIME: 8-10AM BST

LOCATION: The QUOD Restaurant,

The Red Room

KEY CONTACTS: Ursula & Brittany

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PURPOSE: A seated breakfast with leaders from / working in Africa around gender, health, and climate to discuss the state of the state with candor.

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SET UP: Since we're allowed 30 guests, we're using 3 round tables of 10 participants each. Images available at the bottom of this page.

 

ATTENDEES:

Double confirmed include

Amie Gardner, Farm Africa

Erin Roberts, Loss & Damage Collaboration

Isabelle Kamariza, Solid Africa

Hafsat Abiola, Project Dandelion

Lizzie Otaye, Eannaso

Makena Ireri, GEAPP

Mary-Ann Etiebet, Vital Strategies

Monika Froehler, Ban Ki Moon Fdn

Nthabiseng Mosia, Easy Solar

^ Dandelion Delegate ^

Ronda Carnegie, Project Dandelion

Teresa Muthoni, WEA

^ Dandelion Delegate ^

Tolullah Oni, Urban Better Science

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Awaiting double confirmation include

Abigail Kajumba, Emerging Public Leaders

Aisha Raheem, Farmz 2 U

Annie Green, We Are Family Fdn

Barbara Platzer, Wellcome

Clare McCullagh, ActionAid

Daniel Kajumba, TriTrees

Elle Covell, ActionAid

Fiona Macklin, Apolitical

Holly Dunham Dye, The B Team

Ify Malo, Clean Tech Hub

Isabelle Kamariza, Solid Africa

Maliha Fawzia, Teach for All

Nassima Sadar-Gravier, AfroClimate

Ndidi Nwuneli, ONE

Olasimbo Sojinrin, Solar Sister

Sellah Bogonko, Jacobs Ladder

Taoffy Adigun, ActionAid

Angie Murimirwa, CAMFED

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SUGGESTED RUN OF SHOW:

8-8:15AM | Arrivals & Networking

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8:15-8:25AM | Welcome & Framing

With Hafsat Abiola

Hafsat opens the morning with a personal and grounded welcome drawing on her own family's story of sacrifice for democracy in Nigeria and her decades of work building women's power across Africa. She sets the tone: this is a brief among peers.

TALKING POINTS:

• Why this gathering, and why on Earth Day

• Project Dandelion's mission: elevating women-led climate solutions from the Global South

• The specific urgency at the intersection of gender, health, and climate in Africa, from food systems to climate finance to health outcomes

• A commitment: what is shared in this room stays in this room; candor is welcome

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8:25-8:35AM | Context-Setting

With Ronda Carnegie​

Ronda offers a brief framing from the vantage point of Project Dandelion's broader global campaign, connecting this room of African women leaders to the 2 billion women the campaign seeks to mobilize worldwide.

TALKING POINTS:

• Why Project Dandelion centers women's leadership as the accelerator for climate solutions

• The role of storytelling and narrative power in shifting global will

• How the voices in this room are essential to what gets decided at COP, at multilateral tables, and in climate finance boardrooms

• A warm hand-off back to Hafsat: "We are here to listen, not to lecture."

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8:35-8:50AM | Table Introductions

With Hafsat Abiola​

A structured but warm round of introductions at the three tables: fast and focused. Each guest answers two questions with their tablemates, one sentence each (helpful to be strict about this):

1. "Where are you from, and what climate challenge are your people facing right now?"

2. "What is one thing you wish the world understood about women's climate leadership in your community?"

Note: Hafsat to time-keep gently. With up to 20 guests, approximately 45 sec pp.

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8:50-9:30AM | Peer Dialogue: Gender, Health, & Climate

With Hafsat & Ronda​

Hafsat leads the dialogue, with Ronda weaving in connective threads, elevating quieter voices, and drawing out implications for global audiences and narrative strategy.

• Thread 1: Health as a Climate Outcome (~15 min)

  • How is climate change showing up as a health crisis for women in your region?

  • Malnutrition, maternal health, disease burden…what are frontline leaders seeing?

  • Prompt: "What is the health story that is not being told?"

• Thread 2: Women-Led Solutions Already Working (~15 min)

  • What are the innovations or community solves that are working & could be scaled?

  • What would it take to resource these solutions at the speed the crisis demands?

  • Prompt: "If you had the room's full backing tomorrow, what would you do first?"

• Thread 3: Power, Finance & Who Gets Left Out (~10 min)

  • Where are the structural barriers that most need to shift?

  • How can networks like this one create collective leverage?

  • Prompt: "What do we need from each other that we can't get anywhere else?"

Note: Hold the line on time but allow depth when it surfaces. 

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9:30-9:45AM | Founder Close

Hafsat synthesizes the three threads:

1. What did we hear?

2. What are the throughlines?

3. What surprised us?

She invites the group to name one concrete commitment or connection they are leaving with: "One thing you will do differently, or one person in this room you will follow up with."

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Ronda closes with a brief charge to the group, naming the moment (Earth Day, Skoll, the global stage they are walking back into), and affirming the role of this network in Project Dandelion's ongoing work.

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9:45-10AM | Networking & Departures