In a word café format, the proposed activity aims to be a space for connections and dialogues between innovative practices of social mobilization for participation, monitoring, and advocacy experienced among activists, leaders, collectives, movements, and researchers from the Global South who are at the forefront of territorial agendas for community resilience, inclusive adaptation, mitigation, and climate justice. The dialogues will be an opportunity to improve practices and strategic cross-border transitions to sustainable societies. The opening of the dynamic will feature an inspirational speech that will seek to synthesize the experiences of Casa Fluminense (BRA), Instituto Procomum (BRA), Funbea (BRA), Mutante (COL), and Climate Rise/Dasra (IN).
Participants will be divided into groups and each table will have a mediator to support the sharing of practices and the recording of key messages and reflections. The activity will be based on three significant questions: i) How has citizen science been an input for innovative practices of social mobilization for climate action in the Global South? ii) How have the culture, knowledge, and traditions of the Global South driven cooperation and ambition for global climate resilience? iii) What social mobilization practice would you like to see advance in your territory to strengthen it?
Each round will be preceded by a question that guides the dialogue and encourages the exchange of ideas and experiences. Participants will have pens and colored cards available to share their ideas. Everyone should circulate among all tables and the three questions. At the end, the mediators chosen at each table will share the main collective findings. In this sense, we hope to offer an environment that is conducive to the emergence of the new, based on the recognition of what is already being done and on listening to others.