The Fondo Uruguay Socioambiental emerged from direct and sustained dialogue with feminists, social and political leaders, academics, media representatives and territorial organizations with many years of community activism. The Fund is the result of a collective learning process about what works in the Uruguayan context, where communities have tirelessly defended their spaces against extractivism, deforestation, agribusiness and the expansion of so-called “TikTok cities”, as well as many other threats. In recent years, Uruguay has witnessed exponential growth in citizen empowerment, with ordinary people organizing and demonstrating that community participation is the only way to ensure that laws are upheld, rights are...

  Join us on 30 October for a conversation about what is possible – and already happening – now, and to imagine how we can build the new, together.    Around the world – from Palestine to India, Serbia to Indonesia – communities are showing remarkable creativity, finding new ways and reviving old traditions to endure, resist and thrive. Their efforts feel all the more vital in an era of unprecedented global challenges, when traditional funding models and NGO structures are proving inadequate, extractive and disconnected from grassroots realities. They remind us that liberation cannot be outsourced.  What becomes possible when we stop seeing...