The 1 st Permaculture East African Mini Convergence 28 -29 May, 2018 Background: The East African Permaculture Convergence is a 2 day conference bringing together practitioners and interested parties from across East Africa to highlight and explore the potentials for permaculture education and project development in the region. We invite policy makers, budget heads, head teachers strategic planners, NGO heads etc. to meet leading permaculture teachers and practitioners and enablers at this ground breaking event. Permaculture addresses climate change justice, food security, education for enterprise development and offers a powerful tool kit to all environment sector based organisations, community workers and scholars of natural resources and agriculture. We will discuss permaculture's relevance to key local community, national and global efforts and how to make contributions using permaculture more effective. Day one: (28th May) Permaculture best practice and