Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
22 July 2026
Post No. 466
The Week’s Contents
• Summaries of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2026
• July 2026 All-in-one Impact Feedback and Assessment (Activity Level 3): All-in-one Impact Feedback of XX236.3 F Programme
• 2025-2026 Data Analytics and Insight Generation Activities from 22 to 31/07/2026
… And much more!
• Summaries of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2026
Our summer 2026 campaign (about finding health relief, happy fulfilment and good wellbeing) continues this week with the brief explanations or summaries of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2026. Each of these projects has its own summary, which includes project goals and objectives, scope, deliverables, timeline, resources and stakeholders. To highlight their summaries, let start defining these projects.
• • What Is Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects?
Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects (HHWPs) are a 6-week community programme starting from 22/07/2026 and made of holistic initiatives designed to improve poor Children, Young People and Families’ (CYPFs’) overall quality of life. HHWPs focus on proactive physical, mental, and social well-being through daily choices, community connection, and personal fulfillment.
• • What Is a Summary of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects?
It is a concise, actionable overview outlining HHWPs’ goals, target audience, core activities and expected outcomes. It serves as a clear scannable guide to help CYPFs and other stakeholders understand how the programme will boost mental, physical, and emotional well-being during the Summer month.
Each of this project (that is, happiness, healthiness and wellness) has its own summary. The summary serves as a quick snapshot for stakeholders to grasp the project’s purpose and progress without needing to read a detailed documentation. These summaries are therefore brief explanations about projects to keep children, young people and families happy, healthy and well over Summer 2026. Like any project, these projects have values and features.
• • Values of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2026
Our Season of Happiness or Summer of Happiness will be about the following five values or utilities:
1) Our capacity to spread happiness between the members of CENFACS Community to narrow the gap in happiness inequalities (value of spreading happiness)
2) The help we can provide to those who are in most need within the CENFACS Community to find happiness cure and feel happy, to achieve successful outcomes in the current economic context (value of sharing happiness)
3) Our ability to create and innovate happiness-enhancing activities and projects to reduce poverty linked to the lack of happiness (creative and innovative value of happiness)
4) Our kindness to care about those members of our community who are in most need of care (care value of happiness)
5) How internet activities (like communications, news, AI and content creation) can bring or increase life satisfactions among the members of the CENFACS Community (internet or digital value of happiness).
These values of the Season of Happiness or Summer of Happiness are also our project values. These values represent the net worth or benefits (e.g., improved happiness) these projects will deliver to our stakeholders (e.g., beneficiaries and users). They are fundamental principles, beliefs or standards that are encapsulated in these projects. They will be measured through metrics such as beneficiary satisfaction and key performance indicators.
• • Features of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2026
To the above-mentioned values or utilities, let us also remind our audience that there are three features about this year’s Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects. These features are as follows:
1) The link between CENFACS’ services and life satisfaction of CENFACS’ members
2) The distribution of life satisfaction amongst CENFACS’ members
3) Social media trackers in CENFACS’ community happiness, healthiness and wellness.
These project features, which represent project aspects, are specific, tangible, functional characteristics or functionalities or capabilities of projects’ deliverables. These features will contribute to the overall value by enabling us to deliver the benefits and positive outcomes for stakeholders.
The above-stated values and features will be reflected in project particulars, that is the specific details, requirements and constraints that define the scope, timeline, budget, and other aspects of the projects. These blended particulars will be apparent as Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects get fully unveiled and implemented.
The summaries of these projects can be found under the Main Development section of this post. The full details of these projects are also available on request from CENFACS, including ways of accessing and using them.
To access and or support them, please contact CENFACS.
• July 2026 All-in-one Impact Feedback and Assessment (Activity Level 3): All-in-one Impact Feedback of XX236.3 F Programme
Our 3-tier impact feedback has reached its third activity level or tier. Unlike All-in-one Impact Feedback of our 2025-2026 Programmes and Projects given by Users and Stakeholders, All-in-one Impact Feedback of XX236.3 F Programme is provided by CENFACS to inform its audience (including users and stakeholders) about the progress it is making in terms of this programme. Some of the statements made about this programme come from what it has been recently argued within the literature about the elements of this programme.
• • What Is This All-in-one Impact Feedback from CENFACS about?
First of all, literature on impact feedback suggests that an ‘all-in-one’ impact feedback refers to a comprehensive evaluation approach that gathers, synthesizes, and analyzes data from multiple sources to understand the holistic effects – both intended and unintended – of a programme. It looks beyond basic output metrics to measure tangible, long-term changes in the target population.
CENFACS’ All-in-one Impact Feedback of XX236.3 F (2020 to 2030 to 2063 Follow up) Programme is a comprehensive approach to gathering and utilising feedback to understand the effects of this programme. It is timely, specific, and focused on impact. It is about the observation on the following five key components of this follow-up programme:
(a) The Paris Treaty
(b) The Istanbul Declaration
(c) The Maputo Treaty
(d) The United Nations 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals
(e) Africa’s Agenda 2063.
This feedback provides our feelings and what we would like (if we could) to be different regarding these five frameworks or pieces of work. It is also about the insights that others have offer about them.
Our observation, feelings and need of difference will be in terms of progresses and shortcomings concerning these frameworks. Our observation, feelings and need of difference are indeed in relation to the kind of work of poverty reduction we do since these global and international frameworks/initiatives greatly impact us. These frameworks provide us a reference to align our work with a global/African vision for a better world. This alignment helps us to foster collaboration between us and other organisations having similar aims to us in order to create a more impactful and long-lasting approach to address the issue of poverty that our community and sister communities face. So, these frameworks provide us with valuable tools to connect our work to a global and African audiences and movements for poverty reduction and sustainable development, while contributing to a better Africa and world.
Our feedback is not an evaluation of these frameworks of work. What observation do we make about them?
• • Observation about the Five Pillars of XX236.3 F Programme
The following statement is what we would like to make about the five pillars.
∝ International Climate Change Agreement (or the Paris Treaty)
It is true to acknowledge that there have been some processes and setbacks in terms of global climate action. There have been some positive impacts like
~ the maintenance of the momentum in global ambition (in terms of Nationally Determined Contributions and net-zero emissions goals) although the USA officially left the Treaty since 27 January 2026;
~ enhanced transparency and reporting (to track progress on mitigation, adaptation and support);
~ mobilization of finance (e.g., increased investment in clean energy and climate-related projects);
~ shift towards net-zero targets (i.e., a long-term vision for decarbonisation);
~ global collaboration (i.e., a sense of global cooperation and shared responsibility in addressing climate change).
Despite the above-mentioned positive impacts, there are also challenges such as the lack of binding enforcement mechanisms, insufficient ambition to limit global warming to 1.5°C, uneven ambition, continued reliance on fossil fuels, climate justice issues (like in Africa where the victims of floods due to torrential rains cannot get justice), etc.
Overall, efforts are needed to strengthen commitments, enhance transparency and accountability, and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon future.
∝ The Istanbul Declaration
It has to be recognised that it has a great potential for the protection of women against violence. In April 2026, The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, adopted a new resolution calling for renewed political will and adequate resources to counter growing attacks on the Convention – nearly 12 years after it entered into force. According to the website ‘womenalliance.org’ (1),
“The bottom line is 15 years in the Istanbul Declaration has changed laws, shaped policies, and saved lives across Europe”.
We are continuing to observe the Istanbul Declaration, in particular the work of the Committee of the Parties to the Council of Europe Convention of Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) and its Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO). We are as well following up the outcomes from its 18th meeting held in Strasbourg, France (2)
∝ The Maputo Treaty
It has delivered some positive impacts on women’s rights in Africa so far (3). Among these impacts, it can be mentioned the following:
~ legal and policy changes in terms of alignment with the Maputo Protocol provisions for countries that adopted it
~ criminalisation of harmful practices (like Female Genital Mutilation and Gender-based Violence)
~ increased access to abortion (with the expansion of abortion services in Africa)
~ strengthening of judicial decisions (in line with the rights enshrined in the Maputo Protocol)
~ empowered advocacy by holding governments accountable by women’s rights organisations
~ enhanced political participation of women in political processes
etc.
According to Equality Now (4),
“There are 23 reasons why the Maputo Protocol remains vital for women and girls in Africa”.
There is a need to recognize progress and accelerate action. The protocol has supported stronger legal protections, advocacy, jurisprudence, and policy reform. There is a long way to go to transform lives since there are member states that have not yet ratified the Protocol. Besides this, there are still challenges like reservations by certain African countries, resistance to gender equality, implementation gaps, limited impact in some areas (e.g., reproductive health and economic empowerment, need for gender awareness among many sections of the African population), ongoing discrimination and inequality in many aspects of life in Africa.
∝ The United Nations 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals
It emerges from Sustainable Development Goals Report 2026 (5), there has been some progress, but this progress remains uneven and insufficient. According to ‘un.org’ (6), there are challenges such as
~ The global extreme poverty rate is projected to reach 10 per cent by 2026
~ 273 million children and young people remain out of school
~ An estimated 1.16 million people live in slums or informal settlements
~ Official Development Assistance fell by a record 23.1 per cent in 2025
~ The global refugee population reached 440 per 100,000 people by mid 2025
~ Worsening of extinction risk across all species groups
~ More than 117.8 million were forcibly displaced worldwide due to violent conflict
~ Global temperatures in 2025 reached 1.43º C above the pre-industrial level
~ Extreme debt of low-middle-income people reached $8.9 trillion in 2024.
This picture shows that gains are uneven within and between nations and communities. There are setbacks in many areas due to climate change, economic instability, the lingering effects of polycrises, etc. Many vulnerable people continue to be excluded from the development gains, despite the principle of ‘Leave No One Behind’.
∝ Africa’s Agenda 2063
Using data from the African Union and African Union Development Agenda, the website ‘africancenter.org’ (7) provides Progress Select Agenda 2063 Flagship Projects. It notes that there has been some progress on the following flagship projects:
>> African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
>> Integrated High-Speed Rail Network
>> Grand Inga Hydropower Project
>> Pan-African e-Network
>> African Passport/Free Movement
>> African Commodities Strategy
>> Pan-African Virtual and e-University (PA/EU).
However, there is less progress on these two areas:
<< Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM)
<< Silencing the Guns.
Additionally, there are challenges in areas like poverty, inequality, malnutrition, healthcare, and political instability, infrastructure deficiencies, political instability and conflict, foreign aid cuts, monitoring and accountability.
From this observation, we would like to make two points below.
1) We are following up and examining, looking back and analysing data on the overall projects and programmes delivered during the financial year 2025-2026 in relation to XX236.3F programme. This exercise will help our all-in-one impact feedback system to drive continuous improvement and achieve desired outcomes.
2) These frameworks or pillars provide us with valuable tools to connect our work to a global, African and local audience and movement for poverty reduction and sustainable development, while contributing to a better world.
The above is just an observation we wanted to make about these pillars. Some elements of this observation do not come from us as many people have the same feeling or view like ours. This observation is not complete.
For those who would like to know more about our observation, feelings and need of difference regarding these pieces of framework of work, they can contact CENFACS.
• 2025-2026 Data Analytics and Insight Generation Activities from 22 to 31/07/2026
Data Analytics and Insight Generation in the context of CENFACS financial year 2025-2026 involve systematically evaluating financial fundraising, and impact data to assess performance and inform future strategies. It transforms raw statistics into actionable insights (like donor retention rates and campaign ROI) required for statutory reporting, impact statement, and strategic planning.
The two tasks or activities (i.e., data analytics and data insight generation of the programmes and projects we ran in the last financial year) are being carried out and will finish by the 31st of July 2026. Although these data activities are jointly conducting, we are going to briefly highlight each of them. We shall as well consider the experiences of Africa-based Sister Organisations in analysing data and generating insights.
• • 2025-2026 Data Analytics Activity from 22 to 31/07/2026
To highlight Data Analytics Activity, it is better to mention what needs to be said concerning this activity and its usefulness.
• • • What this Data Analytics Activity is about
It is about continuing to collect, transform and organise 2025-2026 data. To do that, we are using descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive data analytics. Data analytics skills such as data management, probability, statistics and others (like AI-powered tools) are also engaged in this analytics process.
Once this work is completed, we shall draw conclusions, make predictions and drive informed decision-making process about our poverty reduction work. In other words, we will be using data findings to theorise and forecast poverty reduction as well as build data systems.
For example, we shall look at what fundraising data, humanitarian appeals data and so on will tell us. We can also consider data from the campaign on financial controls in 2026 and determine to continue or redesign or close this campaign.
• • • How this Data Analytics Activity is useful
This Data Analytics Activity will help to track projects (like All Year Round Projects) as well as to make informed decision for the new financial year. We can look at data about services we provide and decide which ones to continue, update or close. We can further check the community members’ data or beneficiaries’ data to decide if the needs have been met or unmet within the community. This data analytics will help to drive CENFACS’ strategy in the new financial year.
• • 2025-2026 Data Insights Generation from 22 to 31/07/2026
To draw attention to Data Insights Generation we are conducting, we are going to narrate what relates to it and its helpfulness.
• • • What this Data Insight Generation is about
It is about collecting, organising and curating data about the 2025-2026 programmes and projects. We are as well extracting knowledge from 2025-2026 data while analysing the extracted knowledge. Once this knowledge extraction is completed, we shall hypothesize action plans for each insight and apply the insight/action plan.
• • • How this Data Insight Generation is helpful
Gleaned data-driven insights will help in a number of ways. For example, they can assist in the following:
√ identifying, categorising and crafting individualised messages to prospective donors for marketing purpose
√ customising messages to Africa-based Sister Organisations
√ finding out new members for targeted marketing in terms of their preferences
√ detecting users’ needs in times of high demand induced by natural catastrophes or crises (like the cost-of-living crisis, geo-economic crisis) or war events in Africa
√ determining popular contents within the CENFACS Community
√ improving CENFACS reporting and analytics capabilities
√ boosting CENFACS poverty reduction work
√ enhancing CENFACS’ work on sustainable development
etc.
In short, the process of data insight generation will help analyse data to extract meaningful information that can inform CENFACS‘ decision-making and strategic planning.
• • Data Analytics and Insight Generation Experiences from the Perspective of Africa-based Sister Organisations (ASOs)
This week, we are as well looking at the way in which our Africa-based Sister Organisations perceive data analytics and insight generation. We are inviting ASOs that have impact stories or case studies or experiences about their own data analytics and insight generation processes to share with us.
Likewise, we are asking to those ASOs that need advisory support in the area of data analytics and insight generation to let us know. This is an opportunity to learn and develop best practices and policies in this area.
Need to share your work or experience in terms of data analytics and insight generation for the programmes and projects you are running, please do not hesitate to contact CENFACS.
The above is the summary of 2025-2026 Data Analytics and Insight Generation activities.
For those who would like to know more about these activities, they can contact CENFACS.
Extra Messages
• Specific Implementation of Analytics and Impact Activities – In Focus from Wednesday 22/07/2026: Operational Analysis, Key Performance Indicators, and Impact Assessment
• The Application of Data and Insight Skills to Manage Your Household – Session/Application 3: Inventory Prediction and Grocery Management (from Wednesday 22/07/2026)
• Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Journal – Summer Creative Activity No. 1: Create Your Double-entry Journal of ‘Happy, Healthy and Social Support/Wellness (Journal A) and Triple Bottom Line (Journal B)
• Specific Implementation of Analytics and Impact Activities – In Focus from Wednesday 22/07/2026: Operational Analysis, Key Performance Indicators, and Impact Assessment
We are continuing to take detailed steps and actions to execute the plan for Analytics and Insight Month at the level of CENFACS and to ensure it reaches its objectives. This is the phase we are moving our Analytics and Insight project of the month from planning to active development and delivery. To put into action our plan for Analytics and Insight Activities, we are undertaking the activities below, from this Wednesday.
• • Operational Analysis for Various Data Types Activity
Under this sub-heading, we shall consider financial forecasting, cost recovery and efficiency, risk management, and data quality management. Let us summarise the contents of this sub-activity.
σ Financial forecasting
It is about analysing CENFACS’ income and expenditure patterns and their links with budgets created and financial forecasts made.
σ Cost recovery and efficiency
It is about identifying areas where costs can be reduced, resources can be optimized, and processes can be streamlined.
σ Risk management
It is about using data to identify potential risks (e.g., financial overspending) and implement appropriate financial controls.
σ Data quality management
It is about ensuring the accuracy and reliability of data across all systems for effective analytics and decision-making.
Also, charity operational analysis relies on mission metrics and efficiency ratios to balance social impact with financial health. We shall use actionable Key Performance Metrics to evaluate resource allocation, programme execution and sustainability.
• • Key Performance Indicators for Financial Analysis Activity
The website ‘plinth.org.uk’ (8) states that
“A Key Performance Indicator (KPI) in the charity context is a measurable value that demonstrates how effectively an organization is achieving its charitable objectives, managing its resources, and delivering value to its beneficiaries. Charity KPIs typically span four domains: financial sustainability, programme effectiveness, fundraising performance, and operational efficiency”.
With reference to this statement, we shall consider using metrics such as total amount raised, average donation, CENFACS website visitor numbers, and online/press exposure to measure performance and impact. With these measures together with income and expenditure/payments accounts, the information on fund movements and reserves; we shall analyse CENFACS’ assets and liabilities, and the overall financial health based on CENFACS balance sheet.
• • Impact Assessment for Impact Activity
A charity year-end impact assessment evaluates both the scale of operations (outputs) and the tangible societal or environmental changes achieved (outcomes). It relies on a balanced mix of quantitative data, financial ratios, and qualitative stories. This mixture of metrics can be broken down into four stages: Inputs (resources used), Outputs (activities delivered), Outcomes (changes in beneficiaries), and Impact (long-term societal benefits).
To assess impact for impact activity, we shall proceed with the following: measuring outcomes, building an impact assessment framework, and telling the story of CENFACS’ impact. Let us summarise each of these contents.
σ Outcomes measurement
We shall use both quantitative (e.g., surveying, routine data collection) and qualitative (e.g., interviews) data and methods to assess the impact of CENFACS activities.
σ Building an impact assessment framework
We shall establish a framework to guide the measurement and reporting of impact.
σ Storytelling
We shall use stories from those who benefited from our work, visuals, and narratives to bring impact data to life and connect with our varied audiences.
In short, as part of implementing analytics and impact activities, we are going to conduct the above-mentioned three specific activities for this week, while dealing with the broad aspects of Analytics and Impact Month 2026. We hope that these activities and those that precede them will help gain valuable insights into CENFACS performance, identify areas for improvement, and demonstrate its impact to stakeholders.
• • Last Words about Specific Implementation of Analytics and Impact Activities
The results of this Specific Implementation of Analytics and Impact Activities to be conducted during this month of July 2026 will be included and published in CENFACS Annual Report and Accounts 2025-2026. The report will be made available on this site.
For any queries and/or enquiries prior to this publication or about any other matters, please do not hesitate to contact CENFACS.
• The Application of Data and Insight Skills to Manage Your Household – Session/Application 3: Inventory Prediction and Grocery Management (from Wednesday 22/07/2026)
In this third application, we are going to work on two areas of managing household resources: Inventory Prediction and Grocery Management. Let us summarise each of these areas.
• • Inventory Prediction
Within the literature about inventory, the term ‘inventory forecasting’ us used instead of inventory prediction. According to ‘netsuite.com’ (9),
“Inventory forecasting – also known as demand planning – is the practice of using past data, trends and known upcoming events to predict needed inventory levels for a future period”.
Similarly, the website ‘inboundlogistics.com’ (10) argues that there are benefits in forecasting inventory such as minimization of stockouts, less inventory needed on hand, reduction of waste and cost.
There are also metrics used in inventory forecasting. One of them is lead time, which measures the duration from placing an order to receiving stock. Knowing the average lead time can allow households to reorder on time. Another metric is economic order quantity, which calculates the ideal order quantity to reduce total inventory costs.
There are as well inventory forecasting formulas and methods. A better inventory forecasting helps you manage inventory, meet your needs, and control costs as well as to develop a streamlined and responsive inventory strategy for your household.
Those who would like to have the best practices to accurately forecast their inventory and choose the right forecasting methods, they can work with CENFACS.
• • Grocery Management
Households and families need to manage their grocery. However, what is grocery inventory management?
The website ‘safetyculture.com’ (11) explains that
“Grocery inventory management refers to operational workflows, targeted strategies, and technologies to keep track of and optimize inventory levels”.
There are steps in managing grocery inventory, which are:
1) Predict 2) Continuously monitor stock levels 3) Strategically plan and place order 4) Inspect and verify orders for quality control 5) Organise, store and rotate stocks efficiently 6) Track inventory performance 7) Analyze inventory performance to improve operations.
One can use grocery inventory management software if they can afford it.
Regardless of the size of the income they possess, all households need to manage their inventory and grocery.
Those members of our community who will be interested in Session/Application 3 as well as any support about The Application of Data and Insight Skills to Manage Your Household, they should not hesitate to contact CENFACS.
• Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Journal – Summer Creative Activity No. 1: Create Your Double-entry Journal of ‘Happy, Healthy and Social Support/Wellness (Journal A) and Triple Bottom Line (Journal B)
Social support is one of the six predictors of happiness and healthiness. But, what is social support? Social support can be defined in many ways. According to ‘verywellmind.com’ (12),
“Social support involves having a network of family and friends that you can turn to in times of need”.
The website ‘verywellmind.com’ adds by arguing this:
“Social support refers to the psychological and material resources provided by a social network to help individuals cope with stress”.
One can refer to the above definition and create a journal for having someone to count on in time of trouble like of any crisis or any other social network matter over this Summer. They can do more within this first creative activity.
One can also include in this journal social wellness, that is the development of positive relationships or connections with other people.
One can as well integrate the Triple Bottom Line (that is, People, Planet and Prosperity) into the journal, in doing so making their journal a double-entry one.
• • What Is a Double-entry Journal?
A double journal is a two-column journaling technique where you write down specific observations on one side and your reflections, thoughts, or responses on the other.
In the context of this Summer Creative Activity No. 1, this method pairs personal tracking (happy, healthy and social support/wellness) with the Triple Bottom Line – a framework that measures success across three elements: People, Planet and Prosperity. To do that, one needs to break down concepts.
• • Breaking down the Concepts
• • • Happy, Healthy and Social Support /Wellness
This refers to the “People” aspect of sustainability. It focuses on nurturing human capital, such as mental health, workplace wellbeing, social connections, and community support.
• • • The Triple Bottom Line (TBL)
It is an accounting framework (coined by John Elkinton) that urges organizations to measure their success on three fronts rather than just financial profit. In this framework,
People represents social responsibility and the wellness of employees and communities;
Planet refers to environmental stewardship and minimization of ecological impact;
Prosperity signifies economic sustainability and long-term viability.
• • • Connecting your Double Journal with the Triple Bottom Line
When you combine a double journal with the TBL, you use a two-column journal to align your daily personal, social, and physical health with broader, sustainable practices as shown below.
Column 1 (The Observation): You track daily actions or practices
Examples: You can log daily sleep, interactions with a social support network or workplace wellness initiatives.
Column 2 (The Reflection/Impact): You assess how those actions map onto the TBL.
Examples: How your personal health (People) or sustainable habits (Planet) contribute to overall long-term productivity and success (Prosperity).
You can use this to ensure that the pursuit of your financial gain does not come at the expense of human health or environmental resources. It helps evaluate whether our daily lives and business/working models are truly sustainable.
• • What else You Can Do as Part of This Summer Creative Activity no.1
As suggested above, you can create a double-entry journal for the things and people who have been socially supportive to their enjoyment and good conditions of life during this Summer 2026. You can as well include in the same journal any development of positive relationships with people or social connections you had as part of social wellness.
You can record their thoughts, feelings and experiences in relation to the social support you have received or given.
You can share with the community your experience of happy and healthy social support/wellness as recorded in your double-entry journal by the end of Summer 2026.
• • Sharing the Content of Your Double-entry Journal
One of the objectives of this journal is to share one’s Summer holiday experience. Thus, sharing your Summer holiday experience via the records from your double-entry journal could be helpful and useful for others who are not only looking for social support and inspiration but also how they can include TBL into their journal. You can share the content of your double-entry journal via CENFACS by submitting it.
To submit the contents of your ‘happiness, healthiness and wellness‘ double-entry journal relating to social support and wellness, and help build a better Summer holiday experience within the community, please contact CENFACS.
When submitting the content of your double-entry journal to us, please do not forget to give us permission to share it.
Message in English-French (Message en Anglais-Français)
• Bilingual Synopsis of CENFACS be.Africa Forum’s E-discussion Topics (from July 2025 to June 2026)
This bilingual review is about topics e-discussed for poverty reduction and sustainable development in Africa in the context of CENFACS’ be.Africa Forum’s E-discussion Programme. It refers to the core thematic areas and digitized policy strategies debated under CENFACS’ be.Africa Forum.
Among the topics included in this collection and their contents are the following ones:
1) Poverty Reduction in 2026 by African Charities
2) The Impacts of Football on Poverty Reduction in Africa
3) How to Bridge the Gap between Africa Charities’ Reliance on Grant Models and Not-for-profit Impact Investors’ Request for Scalable, Self-sustaining Market Mechanisms
4) The Impact of Credit Bonobo on Poverty Reduction within Local Communities
5) Natural Resource Crime and Poverty Reduction in Africa
6) Media Choice, Information Consumption and Poverty Reduction
7) How Can We Build Resilient Education Systems that Can Withstand Future Crises in Africa?
8) Economic Sovereignty and Poverty Reduction in Africa
9) Economic Wars and Poverty Reduction in Africa
10) African Law Firms and Their Impact on Poverty Reduction in Africa
11) Fiscal Policies and Inequalities Reduction in Africa
12) How Can Art Galleries Become Real Points for Reducing Poverty in Africa?
13) Gambling Laws and Poverty Reduction in Africa
14) The Impact of Video Games on Poverty Reduction in Africa
15) False Positives of Poverty Reduction in Africa
16) The Impact of Armies Protecting National Resources on Poverty Reduction in Africa.
Those who will be interested in this synopsis or the contents of the topics included in it, they can contact CENFACS. Also, as part of Impact and Analytics Month those who have any feedback or comments to make about the above-mentioned topics and the overall running of CENFACS’ be.Africa Forum, they can seize this opportunity to do it.
To contact CENFACS, please use our usual contact address on this website.
• La Synthèse Bilingue des Thèmes de Discussion en Ligne du Forum ‘Une Afrique Meilleure’ de CENFACS (de Juillet 2025 à Juin 2026)
Cette synthèse bilingue porte sur les sujets abordés lors des discussions en ligne consacrées à la réduction de la pauvreté et au développement durable en Afrique, dans le cadre du programme de discussions en ligne du forum ‘Une Afrique Meilleure’ de CENFACS. Elle fait référence aux thématiques centrales et aux stratégies politiques numérisées qui ont fait l’objet de débats au sein de ce forum.
Parmi les sujets abordés dans ce recueil, on trouve notamment :
1) La réduction de la pauvreté en 2026 par les organisations caritatives africaines
2) L’impact du football sur la réduction de la pauvreté en Afrique
3) Comment peut-on concilier la dépendance des organisations caritatives africaines aux modèles de subventions et l’exigence des investisseurs à impact (secteur à but non lucratif) en faveur de mécanismes de marché autonomes et extensibles?
4) L’impact de « Credit Bonobo » sur la réduction de la pauvreté au sein des communautés locales
5) La criminalité liée aux ressources naturelles et la réduction de la pauvreté en Afrique
6) Le choix des médias, la consommation d’information et la réduction de la pauvreté
7) Comment peut-on bâtir des systèmes éducatifs résilients, capables de résister aux crises futures en Afrique ?
8) La souveraineté économique et la réduction de la pauvreté en Afrique
9) Les guerres économiques et la réduction de la pauvreté en Afrique
10) Les cabinets d’avocats africains et leur impact sur la réduction de la pauvreté en Afrique
11) Les politiques budgétaires et la réduction des inégalités en Afrique
12) Comment les galeries d’art peuvent-elles devenir de véritables leviers de réduction de la pauvreté en Afrique ?
13) La législation sur les jeux de hasard et la réduction de la pauvreté en Afrique
14) L’impact des jeux vidéo sur la réduction de la pauvreté en Afrique
15) Les faux positifs en matière de réduction de la pauvreté en Afrique
16) L’impact des armées protégeant les ressources nationales sur la réduction de la pauvreté en Afrique.
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Main Development
• Summaries of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2026
The following headings will help to summarise Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2026:
∝ 2026 Edition of Summer of Happiness, Healthiness, Wellness, Peace, Vulnerability-free, Protection and Sustainability
∝ Essential Summaries of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects
∝ Other Summer Projects around Me.
Let us briefly uncover these headings.
• • 2026 Edition of Summer of Happiness, Healthiness, Wellness, Peace, Vulnerability-free, Protection and Sustainability
This 2026 Edition is out now and trending. It covers the main initiatives and activities planned for this summer. In this edition, the 2026 Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects may have kept the same names for some of these projects like in the previous Summers, but their contents reflect this year’s themes of happiness, healthiness and wellness in the treble context of lingering impacts of polycrises, extreme temperatures and the struggle that low-income peoples have to meet their basic life-sustaining needs.
These projects are as follows:
1) ‘Holiday with Relief’ Resource (this year’s focus is on A Holiday with Alternative Activities)
2) Narrowing Gaps in Happiness Inequalities
3) Summer Harmony with Nature
4) True Balance in Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness
5) Networking for Protection, Safeguarding and Security
6) Community Care, Health Responsibility and Wellness Enhancing Activities.
They are the combination of skills, knowledge, resources, tools, fixers, enhancements, boosters and tasters for poverty relief and sustainable development. They consist of:
√ Two resource projects (Family Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Mini-Guide, and Holiday Information Manager)
√ One communication-protection project (Networking Platform for Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness)
√ One climate and environmental campaign (Summer Harmony with Nature)
√ One interactive (interaction between people and their community) project (True Balance in Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness)
√ One set of initiatives to stay well (Wellness Enhancing Activities).
They are the projects to move forward to protect the gains of poverty reduction work, while building upon progress to achieve a more equitable and inclusive society. They are as well initiatives to embed long-term resilience through innovation to drive progress.
In their design, we have considered the effects of climate change all over our Summer 2026 Programme. In other words, all the six Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects will have green, sustainable, and climate changing and resilient contents. They will be aligned with greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals and targets. The consideration of the effects of climate change and resilience all across is what makes Summer 2026 of a zero or neutral carbon one.
This is done to help improve life evaluation while taking actions to enhance the same life in a changing climate. In this way, Summer can be a season of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness NOT of Misery for un-served and under-served children, young people and families who are at the same time the victims of the adverse effects of climate change, particularly but not exclusively extreme temperatures.
They are the victims of adverse effects of climate change because climate change affects the way they dress, eat, house, educate, entertain, care for their health, and above all the way they pass Summer holiday.
We can briefly present these projects one by one as follows.
• • Essential Summaries of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2026
Here are the explanations and essential summaries of the Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects making the 2026 Summer Programme Part II. As said previously, these projects can help in achieving some happy, helpful, healthful and hopeful Summer plans, goals and outcomes.
• • • 1) ‘Holiday with Relief’ Resource with a focus on a Holiday with Alternative Activities
a) What is Holiday with Alternative Activities?
Holiday with Alternative Activities refers to an unconventional, off-the-beaten-path trip focused on experiential learning, immersive cultural exchange, or active outdoor pursuits rather than standard resort relaxation.
b) ‘Holiday with Relief’ Resource with a focus on a Holiday with Alternative Activities
As a resource, Holiday with Relief is one of CENFACS useful and helpful ICDP (Individual Capacity Development Programme) resources for holiday makers and travellers. The resource, which is published during Spring of every year, can also be used during Summer holiday or any holiday.
The current Issue of our ICDP Resource entitled as ‘Holiday with Relief’ focuses on a Holiday with Alternative Activities.
This year, the resource deals with holiday with alternative activities. These are family holidays offering unique experiences and activities beyond traditional beaches or amusement parks. Such holidays can include adventure trips, educational experiences, and local excursions tailored to different interests and age groups. They offer families the opportunity to strengthen bonds, acquire new skills, and create unforgettable memories in a more enriching and educational way.
To build forward a happy, healthy and well Summer break, and or get this Family Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Mini-Guide, please contact CENFACS.
• • • 2) Narrowing Gaps in Happiness Inequalities
a) What is Narrowing Gaps?
Narrowing Gaps refers to closing the wellbeing gap – the difference in life satisfaction and mental health between a society’s happiest and most miserable citizens. It shifts the focus from purely economic inequality to an individual’s actual quality of life, aiming to alleviate societal misery.
Narrowing Gaps helps reduce the extent to which happiness levels vary across individuals or members of our community, through strengthening social trust, addressing economic disparities, ensuring equitable access to resources, and promoting fairness and inclusion.
b) Narrowing Gaps in Happiness Inequalities (‘NAGAHAIN’) Project
It is our Information Manager for this year’s summer. The goal of the ‘NAGAHAIN’ Project is to help make the distribution of subjective well-being even or equal within the community. It assists in the reduction of the variation of happiness levels across individuals within the community. What is really about?
It is about using the following strategies to narrow happiness inequalities:
√ Improving the psychological equality or happiness quality or even subjective well-being
√ Enhancing happiness levels amongst the members of CENFACS Community to avoid high levels of happiness differences
√ Ensuring equitable access to resources
√ Promoting fairness and inclusion
√ Addressing economic disparities
√ Increasing the community trust, that is the belief in the integrity of other members of our community.
One of the concerns for many people and families is how to pass this Summer happy and healthy under the constraints of rising costs of living, changing climate and lingering effects of the polycrises (like the crisis linked to the Strait of Hormuz).
The NAGAHAIN Project/Resource as Holiday Information Manager is the awareness, preparedness and solutions-focused Resource to Manage Information to turn summer of constraints and worries into that of happiness, healthiness and wellness. It contains a set of tips and tricks to help and enable vulnerable unaware people to plan their holiday or break with confidence to achieve the goal of increasing happiness, healthiness and wellness.
For further details about this Holiday Information Manager or Narrowing Gaps in Happiness Inequalities, please contact CENFACS.
• • • 3) Summer Harmony with Nature
a) What is Harmony with Nature?
It is the practice of aligning human lifestyles, mental well-being, and architectural designs with the active, cyclical rhythm of the summer season. It emphasizes eco-centric living, recognizing that humans are interconnected with the environment rather than separate from it.
Harmony with Nature emphasizes a balanced relationship where human activities are aligned with the well-being of the planet and its ecosystems.
b) Summer Harmony with Nature as a project
Summer of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness is also of accord with nature with its creatures. Keeping a harmonious relationship with leaves, plants, animals, landscapes and surrounding natural species (like trees, plants, fungi, waters, parks, etc.) and resources adds a great value to our happiness, healthiness and wellness. In other words, it is about equating our needs of happiness, healthiness and wellness to those of the nature. It is about emphasizing a balanced relationship where human activities are aligned with the well-being of the planet and its ecosystems.
Living in harmony with nature means that to pass a good summer we do not need to upset the nature with its creatures. Humans can pre-emptively take the lead by keeping their relationships as harmonious as possible to avoid the degradation and depletion of nature. They can do it through…
σ the recognition of interconnectedness
σ the respect for natural processes
σ undertaking sustainable practices
σ the respect of rights of nature
σ having non-anthropocentric view
σ making their summer of no waste consumption
σ integrating social and ecological justice
etc.
Need to keep harmony with nature, please do not hesitate to contact or connect with CENFACS’ Summer Campaign over Nature.
• • • 4) True Balance in Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness
a) What is True Balance?
True Balance is not an even split of time, but a dynamic equilibrium where your daily habits align with your core value. It is the harmonious integration of happiness (joy and purpose), healthiness (mental and emotional resilience), achieved by actively meeting your personal needs without neglecting your responsibilities.
True Balance includes cultivating healthy habits, finding joy in daily life, and nurturing meaningful relationships by finding the right proportions for happiness, healthiness and wellness.
b) True Balance in Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness
Through this initiative, we shall work with users to address some forms of imbalance in happiness; imbalance between happiness as an individual experience and happiness as a collective endeavour. In other words, we shall support the community members to achieve their own happiness without compromising the ability of the other members of the community they belong to have their own happiness.
Balance is also about giving each part of our life the correct amount of care and attention as suggested by ‘mindfulmovement.me’ (13). The same ‘mindfulmovement.me’ argues that balance means we have to learn how to embrace life’s dualities.
By finding your personal balance, this can help to discover the true balance or right proportions in happiness, healthiness and wellness.
It is in the interaction in happiness of each of our members and the CENFACS Community that the true balance in happiness, healthiness and wellness can be found. It involves cultivating healthy habits, finding joy in daily life, and nurturing meaningful relationships.
To find out further about this Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Project, please contact CENFACS.
• • • 5) Networking for Protection, Safeguarding and Security
a) What is Networking for Protection and Safeguarding?
Networking for Protection and Safeguarding involves implementing measures to safeguard children and deploying efforts to protect vulnerable adults from harm.
It involves multi-agency approach and connects local authorities, housing associations, charities, and community groups to share resources, identify vulnerable people, and provide vital support before households reach breaking point.
b) Networking for Protection, Safeguarding and Security (N4PSS)
N4PSS is a CENFACS Social Media Platform to facilitate the flows of information and communication in order to keep local children, young people and families (CYPFs) out of the threats, troubles, attacks and challenges of everyday life and during the Summertime of changing climate, rising costs of living and lingering effects of the polycrises.
N4PSS is about improving the Flow of Information over the Summertime amongst us and other stakeholders by gaining access to mutual support, facilities, services and resources in order to protect and safeguard multi-dimensional deprived CYPFs. It is also about applying the five main areas of safeguarding which are: recognize, respond, report, record and refer.
It is not enough to carry out our individual actions against any crisis unless we sum up them by coming together in the form of social connections as human chains. Such connections or networks will help to exchange information and data for the mutual interest and collective defence or security.
N4PSS can even go further by forming a network security to protect the usability and integrity of our network and data. It includes protecting network infrastructures, preventing threats (e.g., cyber threats), ensuring data integrity and availability, and creating a combination of solutions to build a robust defensive system.
N4PSS encompasses various strategies and technologies to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of network resources. This type of network will help to undertake behavioural analytics and react to questionable activities that can pose a threat to the CENFACS Community members.
N4PSS can as well keep us safe, identify security issues, create an incident response plan, while setting up a firewall around us and encrypting any data we try to transmit. This is important since protection and security are also about data that run our individual and community lives. In this respect, our network security can include components such as intrusion detection and prevention systems, access control, security system reviews and updates, etc.
N4PSS against any Crisis or Summer Social Media Platform is a means to access and facilitate the flows of information about the protection, safeguarding and security against any crisis. It is our capacity to help protect our members from threats, risks and attacks. Through this means, one can receive and pass on protective, safeguarding and security information about any threats and risks from the rising costs of living, changing climate and lingering effects of the polycrises within a networked community.
To network for protection, safeguarding and security against any crisis, please let CENFACS know.
• • • 6) Community Care, Health Responsibility and Wellness Enhancing Activities
To understand this Happiness-Healthiness-and-Wellness initiative; it is better to explain its three components, which are Community Care, Health Responsibility and Wellness Enhancing Activities.
a) Explaining Community Care, Health Responsibility and Wellness Enhancing Activities
Community Care (or care in the community) refers to health and social care services provided outside of hospitals or residential care facilities with the aim of supporting individuals in their own homes and communities.
Health Responsibility can be explained as the idea that individuals should actively manage their own well-being through lifestyle choices and preventive measures.
Wellness Enhancing Activities are activities that promote physical and mental health.
To sum up, Community Care promotes independence and wellbeing, while Health Responsibility helps individuals to manage their own well-being through better lifestyle choices and preventative measures, and Wellness Enhancing Activities are about the practice of activities that improve their physical and mental health.
Let us put together the above-defined components.
b) Community Care, Health Responsibility and Wellness Enhancing Activities
They are a combination of the physical, emotional and social support to people/our community members to live with care, control and dignity in our community on the one hand; and our shared responsibility for the public health on the other.
So, health responsibility means that our community members fulfil their duties to maintain their physical, mental and social well-being.
Community care and responsibility imply whatever we do we must comply with the rule of the community, society in which we live.
Wellness activities describe anything (like meditation, walking, gardening, DIY, physical exercise, etc.) being done to help achieve the overall health goal.
We can use this Happiness-Healthiness-and-Wellness initiative to create a safe Wellness or Healthcare Plan. Such a plan will include the following: health vision and goals, lifestyles habits, follow-up tips and checks.
Through this Personal/Family Healthcare Plan, we will try to reduce lifestyle-induced diseases for ourselves and others while promoting our own health without adversely impacting the health of others and future generations.
For further details about Community Care, Health Responsibility and Wellness Enhancing Activities, please contact CENFACS.
The above six interlinked themed ways/projects of creating and sustaining Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness in a Summer of rising costs of living, changing climate and lingering effects of the polycrises do not replace any good advice and practice (like the ones produced by statutory bodies). They just add value to what it is already in place. They need to be used in conjunction with the existing other measures to bring happiness as well as health and safety measures.
For further details about any of these projects, please do not hesitate to contact CENFACS.
• • Other Summer Projects around Me
So far, we have highlighted what CENFACS can do to help build a Summer of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness. Besides CENFACS, there are countless projects and programmes that can help anyone to meet their Summer goals or plans. They include holiday camps, arts activities, clubs and activity classes, workshops, trails and tales, theatre, family farms, places to visit over Summer, etc. Depending on where one lives and which online platforms one uses, there are projects and programmes that can bring happiness, healthiness and wellness. Put it simply, there is something that one can do over Summer in-person or virtual to stay happy, healthy and well this Summer.
For example, if you live in the Broadgreen ward of Croydon, there is Handcroft, Eastney and Tamworth ‘Summer Fun’. This is a two-week period of fun for 8 plus years (and under 8’s with parents), which includes sports, games, arts and craft, music and much more. You can access this initiative by contacting the organisers as follows:
e: info@playplace.org
w: www.playplace.org
Similarly, if you live in the county of Surrey, you can check ‘ABC magazine’ – the local information magazine for parents in Surrey – at
www.abcmagazine.co.uk.
The magazine tells you the places to go to, things to do, ideas and resources to help you over this Summer.
For those of our members who are looking for Summer activities other than CENFACS’ Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects; and they do not know where to find them, CENFACS can work with them to guide them. They can contact CENFACS for guidance and support. They can as well follow us on X to catch up with what is happening during this Summer 2026.
We would like to wish all multi-dimensionally Poor Children, Young People and Families Happy, Healthy, Well, Vulnerability-free, Peaceful, Safe and Sustainable Summer Days.
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• References
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(3) https://soawr.org/up-content/uploads/SOAWR-Maputo-Protocol-Report-07-PDF.pdf (accessed in July 2025)
(4) https://equalitynow.org/news-and-insights/maputo-at-23-23-reasons-why-the-maputo-protocol-remains-vital-for-women-and-girls-in-africa/ (accessed in July 2026)
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(12) https://www.verywellmind.com/social-support-for-psychological-health-4119970 (accessed in July 2023)
(13) https://mindfulmovement.me/blog-eng/why-balance-is-key-to-live-a-happy-and-successful-life (accessed in July 2024)
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