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Community Organisers are working with Iswe and a team of global partners across the world as a Regional Lead to create a Permanent Global Citizen's Assembly.
The first Global Citizen’s Assembly began in January with the topic focusing on global food systems in the context of climate change. Food was chosen as a topic as it connects people from all backgrounds.
By exploring how to feed everyone within planetary boundaries, the Civic Assembly will confront difficult questions that lie at the heart of global climate governance. The following framing question has been developed to stimulate these conversations.
“What changes, if any, should we make to how we grow, share, and eat food, so that everyone has enough to nourish themselves, while tackling the causes and impacts of climate change?”
The Assembly is designed to be a “mini-world”: members are selected through a two-stage lottery that first identifies random locations across the globe. Then the lottery chooses one person from each location to reflect global diversity and slightly elevate voices in climate-vulnerable regions.
Community Organisers were recruited as a Regional Lead covering the British Isles and North America with the map points in Leinster Dublin, Luton England, Bravos County Texas, Allegheny County Pennyslyvania, Kittias County Washington and Brevard County Florida being selected.
First, Community Hosts (local community organisations) were recruited in these areas. These Community Hosts were supported to reach out and find 5-10 potential Assembly Members in that area, of which one was selected through a demographic lottery to take part.
A permanent Global Citizens’ Assembly offers a new way forward: a deliberative process where people learn, find common ground, and help shape informed solutions. For many who’ve taken part, it’s more than a process: it’s a powerful personal journey.
On 17 January, 105 people chosen by democratic lottery started the Civic Assembly of 2026. From January-March Assembly Members will take part in 14 facilitated online sessions alongside their Community Host who will support them.
In these sessions they’ll work through evidence, explore lived realities of food and climate, test different future scenarios, and debate the trade-offs behind any shift in how the world produces and shares food.
After the deliberative process has finished there will be a wave of community assemblies with the online platform Assemblis being used to shape, plan and share outcomes. This platform was piloted across the Community Organisers Social Action Hub Network and together with other pilot partners will help develop a programme for Community Assemblies on Food Systems, aligned with the Civic Assembly.
At Bonn, Iswe hopes to publish a set of recommendations shaped by collective actions of the Global Citizens Assemblies and local community assemblies, offering a rare, globally representative view on what people believe should change in our food systems.
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