PROJECT DANDELION AT SKOLL WORLD FORUM
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.
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.
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.
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:
