The LISA 2020 Sustainability Symposium will be held in Kumasi, Ghana 2–6 May 2022. This in-person gathering of the LISA 2020 Network (with options for remote attendance) will be an opportunity to renew friendships, welcome new network members, and increase lab-to-lab collaborations. The main goals of the Symposium are to share best practices in making stat labs stronger and more sustainable, finalize sustainability plans for individual labs, and make collective decisions about the future of the LISA 2020 Network and how to make the network more sustainable so it can continue to build local capacity to transform evidence into action for development.

Program and Schedule

The symposium will have a mix of presentations by stat labs about their sustainability plans, workshops on sustainability and creating and implementing sustainability plans, workshops on improving labs' technical and collaboration skills--especially data science, and network discussions and plans for sustaining the LISA 2020 Secretariat into the future. Also, there will be many opportunities for social connections.

Proposed Schedule:

• Sunday, 1 May:
  Arrivals (for foreign delegates) in Accra.

• Monday, 2 May:
  Morning: Gather in Accra for bus to Kumasi.
  Afternoon: LISA 2020 Sustainability Symposium Welcome and Keynote Address (Vance).
  Evening: Large group dinner.

• Tuesday, 3 May:
  All day presentations and discussion about sustainability of individual stat labs.

• Wednesday, 4 May:
  Morning: Workshop for stat lab sustainability plans, and Summary of Tuesday presentations.
  Afternoon: Keynote address (Adebanji), and Kumasi excursion.

• Thursday, 5 May:
  TEACH Fund presentations (1.5 hours)
  Discussion/presentations and workshop on sustainability of the LISA 2020 Network and LISA 2020 Secretariat.

• Friday, 6 May:
  Morning: Wrap-up session and farewell.
  Afternoon: Bus back to Accra (6PM arrival).

• Friday night and Saturday, 6–7 May:
  Departures from Accra.