Resources

Here are some useful resources for the design and promotion of Citizen Assemblies

Practical guides

First approach to hold a Climate Assembly: Summary Guide How to organize a Citizen's Climate Assembly? by Fórum dos Cidadãos, Instituto de Ciências Sociais and Zero, 2023

More complete document based on the experiences of the Spanish Climate Assembly, the Barcelona Climate Assembly, the Mallorca Climate Assembly and the Gipuzkoa Climate Assembly: Guide for the design, organization and facilitation of citizen climate assemblies, BC3 Basque center for climate change, 2023.

To situate citizen assemblies in an international context, approach the typologies of deliberative processes and principles of good practices: Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions. La ola deliberativa, OECD, 2020 (translated by INE Instituto Nacional Electoral de México, 2022).

Key aspects of Climate Assemblies, from the Network of actors working in this field: Climate Assemblies - key aspects, KNOCA, Knowledge Network on Climate Assemblies, 2021.

A practical guide from the point of view of the main actors active in the implementation of a Citizens' Assembly: How to activate national initiatives to move democracy beyond elections, a project of the UN Democracy Fund and the newDemocracy Foundation, 2019 (translated by Deliberativa, 2020).

Practical guide in English

Guide produced by the people who elaborated the OECD documents on deliberative processes, based on multiple experiences around the world: Assembling an Assembly Guide, produced by DemocracyNext, 2024. Red Delib is working on the Spanish version.

Audiovisual resources on the Iberian Peninsula

Tolosako Herritarren Batzarra - Asamblea Ciudadana de Tolosa, 2023, 10 min. (in Basque with Spanish subtitles)

Gipuzkoako Herritarren Batzarra - Citizens' Assembly of Gipuzkoa, 2023, 11 min. (in Basque, click on "subtitles > automatic translation" to select your preferred language)