FROM GLOBAL SOUTH
In this section, you will find participatory and deliberative practices developed by social leaders, organizations, and collectives from the Global South that have transformed the way public decisions are made. Each model creates new opportunities for participation, strengthens the relationship between citizens and institutions, and offers valuable lessons for other communities worldwide. Bringing them together is a way to recognize their power, amplify their impact, and continue building democracy with citizens and among peers.
democracy
- Improving the democratic climate.
- Increased confidence in institutions.
- Democratic education.
- Institutionalization of deliberative practice.
the public
- Construction of public policies.
- Political incidence.
- Institutional transformation.
- Veeduría ciudadana.
- Rendición de cuentas.
and capacity building
- Citizen empowerment.
- Increased civic capabilities.
- Deliberation skills.

Participatory Budgeting in Schools
Debate model of civic education
ARTvocacy Movement
Sowing The Seed of Deliberation
Youth interactive platform for democracy
Civic Voices: A Tech Platform for Public Participation
Training and Empowerment for Participatory Decision-Making
Summer school participatory democracy
Rebuilding trust in socio-environmental conflicts
Deliberative Assemblies
Citizens’ Assemblies and Mini-Publics for Public Decision-Making
Participative Budget Survey
Citizen School Lab, Pre-University School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Resurgentes – Climate Assemblies Consortium
Farming democracy harvesting sustainability
CIVIS, Enhancing Citizen Participation in the Law-Making Process
Community Engagement for Sustainable Impact
WeVis: We Visualize Data for Democracy
Thailand Talks

Summer school participatory democracy
Rebuilding trust in socio-environmental conflicts
Deliberative Assemblies
Citizens’ Assemblies and Mini-Publics for Public Decision-Making
Participative Budget Survey
Citizen School Lab, Pre-University School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Resurgentes – Climate Assemblies Consortium

ARTvocacy Movement
Sowing The Seed of Deliberation
Youth interactive platform for democracy
Civic Voices: A Tech Platform for Public Participation
Training and Empowerment for Participatory Decision-Making

Farming democracy harvesting sustainability
CIVIS, Enhancing Citizen Participation in the Law-Making Process
Community Engagement for Sustainable Impact
WeVis: We Visualize Data for Democracy
Thailand Talks

Participatory Budgeting in Schools
Debate model of civic education
Hub
Activity
Model
Structured deliberation
Participatory democracy
Methodological innovations
Adaptive/contextual approaches
Actors
Citizenship and communities
Public sector
Civil society and intermediaries
Purpose
Strengthening democracy
Public advocacy
Citizen empowerment and capacity building
25 de 25 RESULTS
- South Asia and India
- South-South Swaps
- Structured deliberation
- Citizens and communities
- Institutional trust

Thailand Talks
- South Asia and India
- South-South Swaps
- Digital Participation
- Youth
- Deliberative skills

WeVis: We Visualize Data for Democracy
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Accompaniment Model
- Citizens’ Assemblies
- Facilitators
- Deliberative skills

ARTvocacy Movement
- Latin America
- South-South Swaps
- Citizen Assemblies
- Marginalized communities
- Citizen empowerment

Resurgentes – Climate Assemblies Consortium
- Latin America
- Demo.Reset/LAB
- Digital Participation
- Youth
- Citizen empowerment

Citizen School Lab, Pre-University School of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Latin America
- South-South Swaps
- Citizens’ assemblies
- Women
- Democratic education

Deliberative Assemblies
- Eastern Europe
- South-South Swaps
- Participatory budgeting
- Children
- Democratic strengthening

Participatory Budgeting in Schools
- Latin America
- South-South Swaps
- Citizens’ assemblies
- Urban communities
- Improved democratic climate

Citizens’ Assemblies and Mini-Publics for Public Decision-Making
- South Asia and India
- Demo.Reset/LAB
- Citizens’ Assemblies
- Social leaders
- Citizen empowerment

Farming democracy harvesting sustainability
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