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Collaboration–a key solution to bridging diverse communities, fostering connections, and confronting societal challenges. 🔑 Here's our coaching take → https://bit.ly/45cMejL

Remarkable! Read more below to learn about this “all teach, all learn” model enables participants to engage in a virtual learning community...”

Check out my talk from the SAMC Equipping Lectures series! In this talk, I discuss the ways interconnection serves as the common link between creativity, community, and knowledge mobilization.

Thanks to ULB Engagée & Jagora Asbl for the opportunity to lead my first high school workshop on "Migration, au-delà des préjugés" How does the media talk about migration? These 14-year-old students already knew a lot about news & social media, and enjoyed learning how framing & journalists work on a hot topic like migration. Learn more about MADP: https://lnkd.in/eBU5jNTz

What mothers can do when they get together.....

From dynamic discussions to hands-on learning in Turin, watch the highlights of our recent Development Cooperation Academy where people from around the world gathered to discuss social justice and navigate just transitions. 🌍💡

Our second pathway to change in Humanity United’s Public Engagement strategy is “influencing policy outcomes to ensure greater accountability.” I explain why we landed on this pathway and what we hope it looks like in practice.

Our Special Issue of New Area Studies is out! Indigeneity, Community and Participatory Practice: Methods, Concepts and Perspectives from the Global South. And all the brilliant articles in it are open access! https://lnkd.in/e_wb-hT6

▶️ Influencing Policy Outcomes, from Kehinde Togun, Managing Director, Public Engagement. 🟢 Two strategic pathways work together within our Public Engagement portfolio to advance HU’s three core conditions: agency, accountable institutions, and shared humanity. 🟢 Pathway 2 focuses on resource allocation, policy adoption and implementation to ensure that institutions are accountable and responsive to those most impacted by human exploitation and violent conflict. ➡️ You can find a video on ‘Pathway 1: Centering Communities with Lived Experience’ earlier on our feed. 🔗 Read our Public Engagement strategy: https://bit.ly/3UYmhzP

Today, I had the pleasure of co-opening the JRC’s 5th Citizen Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival. This year’s festival theme is about the engagement of citizens in the green transition and on environmental issues, aligning well with previous European Commission Citizens' Panels. In a rapidly evolving communication landscape, two-way engagement with citizens significantly enhances the quality of our work. By incorporating their wealth of real-life knowledge and experience, citizens enrich our policy development at an early stage. In times of polarisation, we must continuously invest into the most precious currency of our political system: trust.