AMECEA: National Coordinators Trained On Regional Office for Missio Aachen Project Funding Concept
Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSA
In the realization that a section of national coordinators for the Missio project in the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) region did not make it to Germany for the four-week training on Missio Aachen’s new funding concept and the establishment of it which is expected at the beginning of 2025, AMECEA secretariat organized for a similar training so that all national coordinators can read from the same script.
“There is a need for us to journey together as a region to understand the new concept Missio Aachen proposed to AMECEA concerning how project funding will be done from next year going forward,” Fr. Andrew Kaufa, AMECEA’s Social Communication coordinator and one of the facilitators for the session shared with AMECEA Online in an interview Wednesday, September 18, adding that if this initiative was not taken, some conferences would lag behind.”
Mission Aachen is an International Catholic Mission organization whose main task is ‘to raise and strengthen the missionary awareness of the faithful as a community of learning, prayer, and solidarity in Germany and also to provide both financial and non-material support for the mission of local Churches in Africa, Asia, and Oceania.’
As one of the delegates from the AMECEA region who attended the one-month training in Germany, Fr. Kaufa pointed out the need for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) skills for a regional officer to ably manage the online project application and decision making system which requires technological know-how.
“After the training in Germany, we realized that this new platform needs someone to be supported with a competent ICT person,” Fr. Kaufa narrated.
In her presentation to the three participants from South Sudan, Zambia, and Ethiopia Ms. Lea Minkenberg from the Department of International Relations at Missio Aachen underscored that the contact persons are to familiarize themselves with the Easydor software which Missio uses for the application of funds.
Missio Aachen has set up an application portal through which applications and reports can be submitted by the applicant.
