Habitat for Humanity Malawi wound the year on a high note with a 2-day team building and strategy development retreat in the lakeshore district of Salima.
Closing the retreat, the National Director for Habitat for Humanity Malawi Mr. Anock Kapira thanked the staff for their team commitment and dedication in serving the Malawians with housing solutions.
The National Director highlighted how Habitat for Humanity Malawi in the year being concluded has successfully convened key actors and brought other organizations together to discuss housing solutions. The Director was also impressed with how the organization has directly implemented projects on addressing housing poverty. “As we appreciate what we have so far achieved, there is still more that we can do and need to start thinking outside the box. We need to make Habitat for Humanity Malawi a think tank and a thought leader in providing housing solutions in Malawi.
This will require Habitat for Humanity Malawi to focus more on policy advocacy delivering convincing material and engagement to influence policy direction and support research to identify gaps and potential solutions in addressing barriers to accessing housing in Malawi and this will largely depend on teamwork. I hope the team building sessions and the conversations leading to the development of a new 5 year strategic framework have helped us to redefine a new approach to quality service delivery input from every staff and every department”, he concluded.
The team building workshop emphasized on building trust with one another to be more productive on the ministry. The members of staff were also capacitated with mental health and wellness at the workplace. The staff were supported with skills on how to deal with work related stress and burn out. staff also had games and sporting events.
This is happening when Habitat for Humanity Malawi has just embarked on developing its new strategic framework and the reflections made during the retreat provide useful insights into the new strategic plan which is expected to be concluded early next year.
