The high level objective is to grow and strengthen the work of the Permculture in Africa (PIA) circle through a project designed to help meet the needs of grassroots PIA members in navigating and getting value from the CoLab. This project aims to create an accessible onboarding pathway/guide as well as curate/collect resources tailored for PIA grassroots projects.

Objectives:

1. Develop a guide/pathway for permaculturists from Africa to better navigate the CoLab and the resources provided.

◦ What is it -introduction to CoLab, why are you here , where to go next, what is available, permission to engage/culture, add people you meet in CoLab to linkedin/other sm, how to be an egaged community member (refer to training) – a short document

◦ By when we will complete it: – Mid August – testing time in community

◦ How will we know that this has been successful / quality output / relevant – feedback from community and PIA circle, feedback from African Permaculturists who would like to join/ have joined.

◦ How will it be useful post grant: it is a resource which is valuable to people coming in post funding and still be useful to help them becoming engaged.

2. Curate, collect, and share resources tailored for PIA grassroots projects, including opportunities, information, capacity building, funding, and co-marketing:

◦ What is it that we are sharing – opportunities, information, capacity building, funding, and co-marketing, identify key areas to start (identified by the community)

◦ How many resources – depends on budget est 1 hour per post – could be multiple resources per post

◦ How will we know that this has been succesful / quality output / relevant – think hard about the curation and really highlighting the value

◦ How will it be useful post grant – focus on perennial (how the seasonal can be perennial – eg share funder not funding opp with deadline)

◦ When do we do this – throughout the project time