Enabling local global participation

Allowing ordinary people to participate in global affairs

Description

Enabling local global participation involves creating mechanisms and opportunities for communities and individuals at the local level to actively engage in global decision-making, initiatives, and networks. This strategy addresses exclusion and marginalization by facilitating access to information, resources, and platforms, empowering local voices in shaping global agendas. Practical actions include capacity-building, fostering partnerships, and supporting inclusive communication channels, ensuring that local perspectives contribute to and benefit from global solutions.

Claim

Growing individual involvement in more democratic societies, and increasing concern about global concerns, is a significant step towards social progress and development. On a more localized basis, these trends are mirrored in popular concern for a better quality of life based on human, moral and spiritual values, a sense of purpose and meaning, care for others and the natural world and a generally more holistic approach. Sophisticated economic and technological globalism is being complemented by people-centred grassroots globalism.