18-21 March 2024 Kathmandu, Nepal

Create Conference working together towards a flourishing world

18-21 March 2024 Kathmandu, Nepal

Create Conference working together towards a flourishing world

18-21 March 2024 Kathmandu, Nepal

Create Conference working together towards a flourishing world

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INTRO TO THE CONFERENCE

The Create Conference is community and business working together towards a flourishing world. This is an opportunity for you to bring your knowledge and skills and be part of designing innovative approaches to community development and the financing of work that is truly transformational for local communities around the world.

The physical conference is part of an ongoing process co-designed by The Centre for Building Better Community, The Informal Settlements and Cities Consortium and The Business Coalition of the World Evangelical Alliance will be running a series of webinars in the lead up to the conference. They will highlight many of the topics we will discuss including the nature of the problem and possible strength-based solutions; the positives and negatives that business play; a theology of giving and financing; and coming soon a focus on God’s vision for our world, this wonderful word Shalom.

AS A RESULT OF THE CREATE CONFERENCE, WE AIM TO

Create an ongoing process that allows the development of solid life giving relationships between community development practitioners and funders

Bring strength-based community development and business together to create a flourishing future globally

Model approaches to investment that empowers and benefits the whole of community

Advocate for a holistic approach to development that includes economics but doesn't centre on it

Conference Hosts

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Andre is an international speaker, facilitator and practitioner in community development.

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Andre Van Eymeren
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Psychologist, Master in Social Innovation and NLP. Coordinator of social projects in different community development organizations as Pablo Besson Association.

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Andrea Marcela Candia
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Working as Regional Director for Asia with World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) IT Commission

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Sharoon Sarfraz
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Timo Plutschinski, an evangelical theologian, is Director of the World Evangelical Alliance´s Business Coalition and member of the Wider WEA Leadership.

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Rev. Timo Plutschinski
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Emily J Choge Kerama (Ph.D, Fuller) in Christian Ethics, an Associate Professor at Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya, a theologian, a researcher and a motivational international speaker.

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Emily J. Choge Kerama

WEBINARS LEADING UP TO THE 2022 NAIROBI CONFERENCE

1. Stating the problemNov 14, 2021

2. How can business have got it so right and so wrongJan 26, 2022


3. Whose world is it?18 March 2022


Development and finance in the majority of the world need to be re-thought. Communities are full of people with amazing gifts, skills, abilities, and perspectives, yet believe they are poor. Old models of funders providing finances for wells, schools, other infrastructure, and a plethora of development stimuli, have often left these communities dependent and disempowered.

These four themes explore different aspects of this conversation and provide an opportunity for you to engage with our thinking in the lead up to the Create Conference 2024 in Kethmandu, Nepal . Each podcast has some input from people directly affected by the theme and will be discussed in further detail at the conference.

You are invited to explore each topic and begin to formulate your thoughts and contributions to the whole conversation of community development, business and the creation of a flourishing world.

Testimonals

The Create Conference is an amazing opportunity to bring communities together with funders and practitioners to explore and develop new approaches to community development. Approaches that don't create dependence and recognize that everyone, everywhere is created in the image of God, meaning they have lots to offer.

Andre Van Eymeren

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It excites me how the Create Conference merges two God-given areas of responsibility: business & community development. This gathering will share best practice solutions on how to realize a holistic approach when it comes to financial, environmental, political, and spiritual aspects of life.

Rev. Timo Plutschinski

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I am Thankful to Lord for the opportunity to be part of Create Conference and I look forward to having blessed and fruitful fellowship during the event

Sharoon Sarfraz

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Living intentionally in a 'forgotten estate' in the UK doing community building, growing an expression of church and working with other churches, communities, organisations and institutions including businesses. I am excited that Create is seeking to bring people together to explore what a 'shalom life' - one of compassion, wholeness, harmony, connectedness, integrity, well-being and justice can look like and how collaborating together, with the community and the passions, skills, gifts and talents of people at the heart, can bring about real and sustainable change

Tim Evans

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It's exciting to be part of the Create Conference that aims to foster new funding flows that enable fuller and more fruitful people empowered development work to occur, resulting in flourishing communities that better reflect the Shalom of God's kingdom.

Oreste Pompetti

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