All 'Bout the Money? Scaling Democratic Innovations amid Scarce Financial Resources

This is an external webinar of the Resonance Space series, a peer-learning and reflection space hosted as part of the SCALEDEM project.

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The webinar will address the following question: How do we scale meaningful citizen participation when financial resources are tightening?

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The webinar will feature three seasoned democracy‑builders who will each share a concrete, resource‑savvy solution for advancing participatory democracy:

• Daniel Oppold (Service Center for Citizen Participation Baden-Württemberg) will share how institutional support structures can help small municipalities deliver high‑quality and high-impact deliberation with a tight budget.
• Sofía Castillo (ISWE Foundation / Global Citizens’ Assembly) will reveal how their "community assembly" model enables local, easily replicable Citizens’ Assemblies worldwide, even in contexts with very limited means.
• Cheri-Leigh Erasmus (Accountability Lab) will present how the "Civic Strength Partners" approach supports civil society organizations protect their missions, consolidate strategically, and build lasting ecosystem resilience in the wake of overseas development aid cuts.

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