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Welcome to the groundbreaking Footprints Podcast, a vibrant series honouring the remarkable legacies of influential elders. Anchored in the study conducted by CivSource Africa on Executive Transitions and Succession planning, our commitment in response to the study recommendations is to document and tell stories of change, transition, and succession among leaders within the sector and beyond. The process seeks to glean lessons from those who have led and served before us. Join us on as we honour those who've paved the way and reflect on the legacies we aspire to leave behind!

  1. 6d ago

    Perspectives, Practices and Possibilities

    Perspectives, Practices and Possibilities Community Knowledge and Reproductive Health in Africa 🎙️ “The sustainability of healthcare depends as much on the quality of its partnerships as on the availability of its resources.” This Week We Feature! | Special Feature Episode How might the design of philanthropic funding arrangements influence the ability of local health organisations to respond to emerging needs, maintain essential services and invest in long-term institutional resilience? This week on our YouTube channel, we feature an insightful conversation on the financing of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) initiatives in East and Southern Africa. Olum Lornah Afoyomungu of HURIPEC, Makerere University, joins Catherine Mutesi Mugabo of CivLegacy Foundation to examine research findings on funding practices, the significance of community knowledge and the possibilities presented by more flexible and locally informed financing approaches. The discussion introduces 13 principles emerging from the research, including considerations around sustainable funding, equitable partnerships, local resource mobilisation and the recognition of community experience. 📺 Press play to explore the full conversation. “If the effectiveness of healthcare is judged by immediate programme results, how do we adequately account for the long-term capacity of communities and institutions to sustain those outcomes?” #CivLegacyFoundation #SRHR #SustainableHealthcare #AfricanPhilanthropy #HealthFinancing

    Perspectives, Practices and Possibilities

  2. Oct 15

    Don’t Become Complacent!

    “Keep being curious.” — Aili Mari Tripp What happens when a childhood lived across continents becomes the beginning of a lifetime spent asking questions about politics, power, women and society? In Episode 11 of Footprints, Jacqueline Asiimwe sits down with Professor Aili Mari Tripp for a conversation that moves through Tanzania, the United States and Uganda; through childhood, academia, feminism, research and the relationships built over decades of listening to people. Aili reflects on growing up in Tanzania during a remarkable period of political change, accompanying her anthropologist mother into communities and ceremonies, and later discovering how deeply those early experiences had shaped the questions she would spend her career pursuing. She takes us inside her journey as a scholar of African politics and women’s movements, including her research in Uganda and Tanzania, her experiences navigating academia as a woman and mother, and the intellectual curiosity that continues to drive her work. It is also a conversation about the craft of research: listening carefully, returning stories to the people who shared them, following questions whose answers are not immediately obvious, and understanding that sometimes the most important part of scholarship is simply being willing to talk to people. Episode 11 is a rich reflection on curiosity, women, politics, scholarship, Africa and a life spent learning from people. Watch, listen and walk through another remarkable set of footprints with us. “Keep learning.” — Aili Mari Tripp #FootprintsPodcast #Episode11 #AiliMariTripp #AfricanPolitics #WomenInPolitics #AfricanWomen #Feminism #Research #AfricanScholarship

    Don’t Become Complacent!

  3. Oct 2

    Hide in Plain Sight | Part 2

    “What is it that I don’t know? And I can learn.”_ Charles Onyango-Obbo What does leadership look like when it is shaped by curiosity, experience and the willingness to keep learning? In Part Two of our conversation with Charles Onyango-Obbo, we continue a journey through journalism, leadership, changing media landscapes and institution-building. Charles reflects on what it means to lead while still remaining open to what others can teach you. He speaks about leadership as the ability to step beyond your own position, see the wider field and understand the different people, pressures and possibilities within it. In this episode, we explore: 🎙️ Leadership beyond titles📰 Lessons from a changing media landscape🧭 Seeing the bigger field as a leader💡 Remaining curious even after years of experience🤝🏾 Leading as part of a team📚 Learning from people, institutions and changing contexts🌍 Navigating change while staying grounded👣 The lessons that experience leaves behind For Charles, leadership is also about knowing that there will always be something you do not yet know. “The captain is the guy who has the ability to gain a bigger view of the field.” _ Charles Onyango-Obbo 🎧 Watch Footprints Part Two and join us as we continue gleaning wisdom at the feet of our elders. ⁉️ What are you still willing to learn as you lead? #FootprintsPodcast #CharlesOnyangoObbo #LeadershipIsALegacy #Changeready #Leadership #AfricanLeadership #Journalism #Wisdom #CivSourceAfrica

    Hide in Plain Sight | Part 2

  4. Sep 17

    Hide in Plain Sight

    “I never looked back. I just stayed at it.” — Charles Onyango-Obbo⁠What does a lifetime spent observing people, politics, media and society teach you about leadership? In this episode of the Footprints Podcast Series, we sit down with Ugandan journalist, writer and curator Charles Onyango-Obbo for a conversation that begins long before the newsroom. Charles takes us back to his childhood, an intellectually rich family environment and his experience growing up with a severe stammer. When spoken communication became difficult, books and writing became increasingly important, setting him on a path that would eventually become a lifelong relationship with journalism. He reflects on his early writing, his entry into journalism, periods of political turbulence in Uganda, further study in Cairo, his time at Harvard and the experiences that eventually contributed to the birth and growth of The Monitor. The conversation also explores a question at the heart of Footprints: What does a long life of experience teach us about leadership? Charles offers a striking answer. He is less interested in being the person exercising authority and more interested in being the captain of a capable team. Drawing from sport, he argues that the captain is not necessarily the most talented player or highest scorer. The captain is the person who can see the wider field. It is a conversation about finding a voice, surviving difficult times, building institutions, choosing brilliant people, remaining curious and understanding leadership beyond position. 🎧 Subscribe to the Footprints Podcast Series and join us as we preserve the stories, wisdom and lived experiences of elders whose footprints continue to shape the generations coming behind them. “The captain is the guy who has the ability to gain a bigger view of the field.” — Charles Onyango-Obbo #FootprintsPodcast #CharlesOnyangoObbo #AfricanLeadership #Journalism #Legacy #AfricanStories #CivSourceAfrica

    Hide in Plain Sight

  5. Sep 11

    Who Will Carry The Work?

    “If I tell my story to people and tell them how I managed to live, that is what gives another person the persistence in life.” — Dr Lydia Mungherera There are moments in a life that divide the story into a before and an after. For Dr Lydia Mungherera⁠ , returning to Uganda gravely ill in 1997 was one of them. She speaks candidly about illness, treatment, family support and recovery, but what makes the story particularly striking is what happened afterwards. Survival gradually became service, and lived experience became something she could place in the hands of another person who needed reason to believe that their own story was not over. She remembers a period when HIV carried enormous stigma and treatment remained inaccessible to many. Her response was to speak, organise and advocate. She says personal testimonies helped break stigma because another person could hear the story of someone who had become desperately ill, recovered and returned to a working life, and begin to imagine that possibility for themselves. The conversation moves beyond survival into the architecture of a life of service: the networks built, women supported, communities reached, health systems challenged and younger leaders encouraged. And now, having spent years asking what can be done for others, Dr Lydia is also asking one of Footprints’ central questions: what happens to the work when the person who built it is no longer the person doing it? For her, succession cannot simply mean identifying someone at the last moment and handing them a responsibility. It means teaching, mentoring and walking alongside younger people while there is still time to share the knowledge that experience has accumulated. “We should be mentoring now the younger people to take over.” — Dr Lydia Mungherera⁠Listen to her story! #FootprintsPodcastSeries👣 #Transitions #Succession #LeadershipIsALegacy #ChangeReady

    Who Will Carry The Work?

  6. Aug 27

    The Missing Dimension | 2

    💬 “There is hope. There is definitely hope. And there is hope in young people.” _ John De Coninck What does it mean to belong to a place? What should remain after a founder leaves? And how do we continue contributing when the season of being in charge has passed? In The Missing Dimension | Part 2, John De Coninck takes us further into a life shaped by Uganda, culture, civil society, institution building and the continuing search for identity and purpose. He reflects on the growing interest among young people in their culture and history, pointing to heritage clubs, museums and the curiosity of younger generations as signs of hope. John also takes us into the story of the Quality Assurance Mechanism for NGOs (QAM), born from an effort by Uganda’s nonprofit sector to hold itself accountable through shared standards and values. For John, those values remain essential. He argues that self-regulation is still necessary and reflects on the importance of ensuring that organisations remain connected to the principles they claim to serve. The conversation then turns inward. After decades in Uganda, John asks: 💬 “Who am I? Am I Ugandan in some ways? Am I non-Ugandan in other ways?” He speaks openly about the death of his Ugandan wife and the crisis of identity that followed, particularly as he realised how much of his sense of being Ugandan had been connected to her. Ironically, it was around this same period that he acquired Ugandan citizenship. His conclusion is not a neat answer. Identity, he suggests, exists in layers and is continually renegotiated as life changes. And leadership, too, must be renegotiated. John reflects on leaving organisations he helped establish, resisting founder syndrome and recognising that strong institutions must eventually be able to continue without the people who began them. Sometimes, he says, an organisation may even have completed the work for which it was created. He recalls an idea from organisational development: “Strategic funerals for organizations.” _ John De Coninck 💭 What do you believe should remain when a leader finally leaves the institution they helped build? #FootprintsPodcast

    The Missing Dimension | 2

  7. Aug 20

    The Missing Dimension

    Episode 8 part 1 traces John De Coninck's path from a floating theatre on the rivers of Belgium, to a childhood in the Belgian Congo, to nearly five decades of community development work in Uganda. Known to many as Mukiibi, John shares what it was like arriving in Uganda in 1973, teaching at Makerere during Idi Amin's rule, co-founding a university in Juba, surviving deportation, and eventually building one of the country's earliest organisations dedicated to strengthening how NGOs and community groups work. Long before “localisation” became a buzzword in international development, John was already asking what it means to build an organisation, a curriculum or a culture that actually fits the place it grows in, rather than the place it was imported from. Fifty years on, that question still shapes his work. Born in Belgium in the 1950s aboard his family's touring theatre boat, John trained as an economist in England before coming to Uganda in 1973. He has spent the decades since teaching, writing, and building institutions rooted in local context rather than imported theory. “I think the missing dimension was understanding better the local culture.” _ John De Coninck Subscribe for new episodes of Footprints podcast series. #FootprintsPodcast #Episode8 #Uganda #CommunityDevelopment

    The Missing Dimension

  8. Aug 13

    What We Leave Behind

    "What we leave behind are our words, our thoughts, and our actions." _ Mary Moran In this episode of Footprints, a podcast by Sauti Africa, we sit down with Mary Moran, an 87 year old teacher, counsellor, and former Catholic nun who has spent over six decades between Ireland, Uganda, the United States, and beyond, learning, teaching, and giving. Mary shares her journey from a young home economics teacher arriving in Uganda in 1963, through 27 years at Maryhill High School, her years as a nun, her transformative decision to leave that life at retirement age with no home, no job, and no safety net, and her later study of Buddhist psychology, which changed how she understood family, culture, and herself. She also opens up about the years she spent, almost by accident, raising money to keep Ugandan schoolgirls in the classroom during a period of deep scarcity, turning a single dinner conversation into a sponsorship network that spanned continents and decades. This is a conversation about service, humility, and what it really means to leave a good footprint behind. 🎧 Listen to the full episode now. Like, comment, and share it with someone who values lifelong learning and quiet generosity. "I hope that the footprint I leave will be one of respect for the planet and love for others, not for their sake, but for my own good." _ Mary Moran #FootprintsPodcast #SautiAfrica #Uganda #Generosity #LifelongLearning #Elders #ServiceAndLeadership

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Welcome to the groundbreaking Footprints Podcast, a vibrant series honouring the remarkable legacies of influential elders. Anchored in the study conducted by CivSource Africa on Executive Transitions and Succession planning, our commitment in response to the study recommendations is to document and tell stories of change, transition, and succession among leaders within the sector and beyond. The process seeks to glean lessons from those who have led and served before us. Join us on as we honour those who've paved the way and reflect on the legacies we aspire to leave behind!

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    CivSource Africa
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    54
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