Imagining and shaping a more participatorypolitics in Latin America.
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We strengthen innovative initiatives and practices that spring from the political imagination of young, grassroots, black, indigenous and LBTQIA+ women in Latin America.
We work to make political systems more participatory and popular, bringing leaders and their territories closer to institutional politics.
Highlights
Political initiatives in Brazil
A project to remember and disseminate the work of political innovation carried out by the ecosystem of initiatives for more political representation and an accessible democracy for all.
Political initiatives in Latin America
Explore the mapping of initiatives that strengthen diverse political leadership in Latin America, focusing on Afro-descendant, Indigenous, and LBTQIA+ women.
Political initiatives in Africa
The Amefricanas project seeks to identify, connect and strengthen initiatives that drive the political leadership of popular, rural, indigenous, LGBTQIA+ and young women in African countries, promoting exchanges and transcontinental collaboration with Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Projects
+Representativeness
Training and research program that seeks to increase the presence of black, indigenous and LGBTQIA+ women committed to social and climate justice, with a gender and race perspective, in spaces of power, subsidizing the ecosystem of initiatives for women’s political participation.
Im.pulsa
Plural, open and free political learning community and platform dedicated to helping diverse women enter and remain in Latin American institutional politics. Im.pulsa contributes to political representation and the democratization of political and electoral learning for diverse women.
Women in Dialogue
A project that researches what Brazilian women think about feminisms and proposes the creation of new strategies for articulating women’s needs and diversities in order to generate constructive dialogues around common values and expand women’s rights and political participation in Brazil.
