WE ARE A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
THAT PROMOTES DELIBERATIVE
DEMOCRACY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
- Sub-Saharan Africa Eastern Europe Latin America Southeast Asia & India
- Sub-Saharan Africa Eastern Europe Latin America Southeast Asia & India
- Sub-Saharan Africa Eastern Europe Latin America Southeast Asia & India
- Sub-Saharan Africa Eastern Europe Latin America Southeast Asia & India
Since 2021, we have connected organizations, activists, scholars, and public officials seeking to strengthen the link between citizens and institutions through participatory methodologies of public deliberation, structured and grounded in everyday life. We believe that diverse local experiences share key challenges and learnings that are valuable for global knowledge. Our work begins by identifying these practices, supporting them, systematizing them, and connecting them to amplify their impact.
Over the past years, we have engaged more than 250 actors across Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, India, and Eastern Europe. —Our goal is to collectively strengthen the capacities of practitioners and civil society organizations to create more effective deliberative spaces and foster meaningful dialogue between citizens and public officials that influence local public decisions.—
Where is it
being done?
HUB
- Latin America
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Southeast Asia & India
- Eastern Europe
Who
participates?
ACTORS
- Citizenship and communities
- Public sector
- Civil society and intermediaries
What and how is
it being done?
MODEL
- Structured deliberation
- Participatory democracy
- Methodological innovations
- Adaptive/contextual approaches
What is it done for?
PORPUSE
- Strengthening Democracy
- Influencing Public Decision-Making
- Citizen Empowerment and Capacity Building
WHO IS PART OF DEMO.RESET?
Demo.Reset is a project of the Extituto de politica abierta, An organization with diverse political tendencies. It believes in and works to strengthen democracy, open government, and innovation to achieve more accessible politics. It is a multi-party think tank.
The project of Demo.Reset It has an advisory committee composed of social organizations from diverse contexts, which support the deployment of common actions to promote practices and models of deliberative democracy in our four priority regions: India and Southeast Asia, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe.
WE SHARE TOOLS AND INSPIRING STORIES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Get involved, share and learn in our community of practice
OUR THEORY OF CHANGE
In many territories in the Global South, democratic institutions face mistrust, social fragmentation, and low citizen participation. This limits their ability to respond to real community problems.
And we connect local practices of deliberative democracy.
Citizen participation processes with training, mentoring, and methodological support.
Encounter spaces between citizens and institutions.
Learning and dissemination with our community of practice in the Global South.
1.
The capacities of local organizations to design and sustain deliberative processes are strengthened.
2.
Public institutions open up to new forms of participation.
3.
Peer networks in the Global South are consolidated, enabling the sharing of tools, lessons learned, and partnerships.
We contribute to a more inclusive democracy, sustained by local initiatives, where citizens can influence public decisions through dialogue, listening, and collective action.
WORKING METHOD
Demo.Reset is a space for learning, collective creation and peer-to-peer exchange.
We have 4 working modalities, get to know them:
We offer methodological and technical support to organizations in the Global South to design and strengthen models of deliberative democracy and citizen participation.
Our training processes include:
- Theoretical and practical training spaces on deliberative democracy
- Tailored sessions according to the needs of each process
- Model co-design
- Tools for design and team training
- Evaluation mechanisms
- Modality: registration and prior call
We create experimental and multidisciplinary spaces to co-design solutions to local challenges in citizen participation and deliberative democracy. These labs are living scenarios where tools that respond to the challenges of the Global South are prototyped. Through open and collaborative methodologies, we aim to break down barriers and reinvent the way citizens engage with the public sphere.
- Modality: registration and prior call
Exchange and support processes designed to strengthen and implement models of deliberative democracy that are already underway. Through a model of collaboration between host organizations and professionals from the Global South, residencies allow people with experience in similar processes to integrate into a local initiative for several months, contributing ideas, methodologies, and practical advice.
- Modality: Previous call
We create and curate educational resources that strengthen work in deliberative democracy:
- Modality: free access
- Modality: free access
- Modality: free access
WHO ARE
THE REGIONAL LEADERS?
They identify relevant organizations, update the community of practice, and facilitate the creation and implementation of models at the local level. Their work enables the network to grow and organizations to become more involved in project activities.
- LATIN AMERICA
Political scientist and anthropologist.
I'm motivated by participatory design, territorial awareness, and collective decision-making. I'm passionate about learning about agri-food systems, weaving, and photography.
- SOUTHEAST ASIA * INDIA
Publicist/Marketer.
Specialist in Feminist and Gender Studies.
Strategist, creative, and music lover.
Passionate about popular culture, thoughtful conversations, and social justice.
- EASTERN EUROPE
Social communicator.
With experience in research and social innovation, she is a Black woman from the Caribbean, an ally of the LGBTIQ+ community, and a believer in peace. She also loves human data.
- SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Political scientist and Master in Urban and Regional Planning.
With experience in the formulation and execution of territorial development projects. Passionate about the performing arts.
