Prioritize South-South knowledge exchange. We can prioritize South-South knowledge exchange through the following practices:
Promote mutual learning between practitioners, advocates, learners and academics from the Global South.
Identifying shared challenges and strategies (as well as differences in context) might be helpful across contexts.
Set up learning calls and other spaces for learning and dialogue between countries and practitioners of the Global South.
Secure ongoing support from practitioners and experts working in similar contexts and/or topics.
Promote OUR Global South knowledge, solutions and innovations in the deliberative democracy field.
Build a collaborative agenda to promote Global South knowledge on deliberative democracy together.
Join forces to increase our financial capacity to document deliberative democracy in the Global South.
Find a common narrative and theory of change from the Global South.
Identifying shared challenges and strategies (as well as differences in context) might be helpful across contexts. For example, frame participatory deliberation as a mechanism to guarantee people’s right to participation, particularly for those historically relegated from decision making processes, and not as a favor done to the people: “In the Global South, we’re seeking for the human right to participate, and deliberative democracy can be a strategic mechanism to balance power relations in our societies.”
