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PROJECT DANDELION AT SKOLL WORLD FORUM

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PROJECT DANDELION AT
SKOLL WORLD FORUM

This April, Project Dandelion returns to the Skoll World Forum in Oxford - a space where ideas meet, movements align, and coalitions form. We join to ensure women leading climate solutions are not only in the room, but visible, connected, and supported.

In partnership with the Skoll Foundation, we are convening a women-led delegation of Global South leaders whose work is driving real-world solutions across climate adaptation, health, conservation, food systems, and girls’ education. Leaders that are shifting systems, influencing policy and mobilizing communities.

Collective learning across contexts

Convening peer-led exchanges that allow for comparison and relatability of how they navigate similar risks in different environments, without flattening cultural, ecological, or social differences.

Turn proximity into progress

Beginning with listening and co-designing alongside community leaders, ensuring learning is shaped by lived experience.

Sensemaking with care

Supporting reflection and syntheses that surface patterns, trade-offs, and lessons over time. Using the symbol of the Dandelion to support collectivism, we help translate proximity into shared understanding and shared understanding into more thoughtful, context-aware action.

Expand the Dandelion community

Each Dandelion marks a leader working to shift systems, influence policy, mobilize communities or transform industries to drive meaningful climate action. By spreading our seeds beyond our existing networks, we aim to expand and strengthen an already powerful community driving women-led climate solutions across the globe.

GOALS

DELEGATION

Leaders from the Global South  are tackling some of today’s most pressing challenges. Their communities face the impacts first - and are also where powerful solutions are emerging, grounded in lived experience and local knowledge.

Former Dandelion Delegates include:

GRACE MATLHAPE OSPREY ORIELLE LAKE ANA FONTES KATIE HARRISON DR. RAJVI JOSHIPURA REEMA NANAVATY BHAVNABEN RATHOD JADE BEGAY ISABEL CAVELIER YAMIDE DAGNET LUANA GÉNOT NDIDI NWUNELI SHREYA GHODAWAT IRMA SITOMPUL
  • DANDELION HUB
    DANDELION HUB
    Tue, Apr 21
    Apr 21, 2026, 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM
    Organic Deli Cafe, 24 Friars Entry, Oxford OX1 2BY, UK
    Throughout the Forum, Deli Organic Café will serve as our informal hub for Dandelions to connect as a community, mobilize as a collective, and amplify our solutions.
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  • EARTH DAY ACTIVATION
    EARTH DAY ACTIVATION
    Apr 21, 2026, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
    Organic Deli Cafe, 24 Friars Entry, Oxford OX1 2BY, UK
    As part of our Pin the Dandelion Campaign, running from IWD to Earth Day, our team will be capturing short video testimonials and messages from Dandelions and leaders at the Forum.
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  • BEFORE WE BEGIN
    BEFORE WE BEGIN
    Apr 21, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM GMT+1
    Classroom 2, Saïd Business School, Park End St, Oxford OX1 1HP, UK
    SWF Badge needed to attend. Skoll World Forum week is rich in ideas and insight. What is rarer, and increasingly necessary, are moments that help leaders integrate their learnings. This session, designed especially for first-time Skoll World Forum delegates, offers a grounded way to start your week.
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  • OPENING DANDELION DINNER
    OPENING DANDELION DINNER
    Apr 21, 2026, 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM GMT+1
    Location shared upon invite confirmation
    Project Dandelion will host an intimate dinner conversation ahead of Skoll World Forum.
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  • MORNING BRIEF
    MORNING BRIEF
    Wed, Apr 22
    Apr 22, 2026, 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM GMT+1
    Location shared upon invite confirmation
    Project Dandelion Co-Founder Hafsat Abiola will host an intimate breakfast conversation ahead of Skoll World Forum to widen the network of those doing work in Africa, learn where they are seeing progress, and discover where we might connect, mobilize, and amplify. Invitation only.
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  • THE ECOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP
    THE ECOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP
    Apr 22, 2026, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM GMT+1
    Invite only.
    A gathering for women in nature, in partnership with The NAT. Invitation only.
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  • DEGREES OF CHANGE
    DEGREES OF CHANGE
    Apr 23, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM GMT+1
    Marmalade, Old Fire Station, 40 George St, Oxford OX1 2AQ, UK
    Hosted by Project Dandelion, Kite Insights, and Wellcome Trust, this session dives into solutions and systems for heat during pregnancy.
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WHERE TO FIND US

CONNECT

Our work in climate is the thread that connects us all, and we want to make that visible. Dandelions are spreading around the world, advancing and championing solutions. 

This is our opportunity to welcome women leaders to a community by supporting each other in our work, amplifying our voices, and connecting and making ourselves visible through wearing the Dandelion pin.

1. Follow us online for timely updates

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2. Join our Project Dandelion SWF WhatsApp Channel for meet-ups and events

3. Sign up for The Dandelion Digest to receive summaries, perspectives, & more

OUR OBJECTIVES FOR SKOLL WORLD FORUM

Proximity-based design

Beginning with listening and co-design alongside community leaders, ensuring learning is shaped by lived experience.

Collective learning across contexts

Convening peer-led exchanges that allow for comparison and relatability of how they navigate similar risks in different environments, without flattening cultural, ecological, or social differences.

Elevating what it means to be a Dandelion

Each Dandelion marks a leader working to shift systems, influence policy, mobilize communities or transform industries to drive meaningful climate action. By spreading our seeds beyond our existing networks, we aim to expand and strengthen an already powerful community driving women-led climate solutions across the globe. 

Dandelion Community Growth

Our work in climate is the thread that connects us all and we want to make that visibility. Dandelions are spread around the world, advancing and championing solutions. This is our opportunity to welcome women leaders to a community supporting each other in our work, amplifying our voices, and connecting and mobilizing through action.

Sensemaking with care

Supporting reflection and synthesis that surface patterns, trade-offs, and lessons over time. Using the symbol of the Dandelion to support collectivism, we help translate proximity into shared understanding and shared understanding into more thoughtful, context-aware action.

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