Take time to identify and recognize our differences, similarities, and complementarities in the Global South’s deliberative democracy practices.

• Differences. The Global South is not a monolith; thus, our perspective must involve recognizing the differences within it. We can identify our differences by asking ourselves…
• What are the particular contexts that we’re facing that impact our practice of deliberative democracy?
• Similarities. The Global South shares some historical, political, social and economic contexts, for example…
• Inequality in citizen participation in the Global South: Most people don’t have the necessary resources (time, money, access to participation spaces, care work, mobility) to exercise their right to citizen participation.
• Complementarities. These possible similar contexts within the Global South could lead us to have some complementarities in our solutions, innovations and practices from the Global South.
• We can identify our similarities by asking ourselves…
  • What are the particular ways in which we’re facing or solving the barriers we’ve mentioned?
  • What are the particular solutions and innovations we’ve created? What are they for?
• We can identify our complementarities by asking ourselves…
  • Are there any solutions or innovations from my colleagues that could be useful for a specific problem or barrier we’re facing?