PEOPLE'S CLIMATE COLLECTIVE
CSIDC is partnering with AktivAsia to run the second cohort of the PCC (People's Climate Collective), a five month program for seasoned campaigners to enhance their already existing leadership and organizing skills.
The PCC is a six month program for seasoned campaigners to enhance their already existing leadership and organizing skills. It provides a space of solidarity to learn together a combination of local and global forms of organizing practices that have led to successful campaigns; and think about potential ways to strengthen and energize the campaigns participants are working on.
The content includes methods of campaign strategizing, storytelling, strengthening relationships and tactic planning so that campaigners have large and impactful events, and a structured direction to their efforts.
Being a part of the PCC fellowship has helped campaigners overcome fears of failure, self doubt, and feel solidarity as part of a larger group of progressive organizers and learn how to lead and organize. After six months of collective experiences and memories, the cohort develops into a community that connects at a deep level and leaves the program with a refreshed perspective of organizing and strategizing.
Over the six months, there are two main areas of focus.
1. The first is on nurturing the capacity of campaigns that participants are involved in. Over four online sessions, attended by the full cohort, one every two to three weeks, participants are provided peer-learning spaces to share and analyze implementations of learnings in their campaigns; as well as benefit from international guest speakers invited to the sessions.
2. The second area of focus is on nurturing the teaching and coaching capacity of the cohort to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge learned, back into their campaigns, as well as to new and emerging campaigners in the ecosystem.
Selected participants attend an in person 3-day workshop to revise their conceptual clarity and practice coaching and teaching. These participants go on to teach, facilitate and coach at the Foundational and the next Climate Organizing School Immersive. These programs and the subsequent teaching allow participants to gain hands-on experience to coach and develop campaigners like themselves, develop new relationships, and take back the learnings to deepen the capacity and effectiveness of their own campaigns.
AREAS OF FOCUS
TIMELINE
SHEHREEN UMAIR
LEADERSHIP TEAM MEMBER
AURAT MARCH LAHORE
PCC ALUM 2023; COACH FOUNDATIONAL 2023; TRAINER PCC 2024
I'm an Aurat March volunteer from Lahore, formerly a student activist. CSIDC's Immersive and People's Climate Collective Fellowship completely changed how I look at campaign planning. The deep dive into developing a strategy based on community mapping and power analysis taught me how to center people in a campaign and how to strategically engage different stakeholders. The exercise of developing a strategic goal and theory of change added clarity to my thought process and pushed me to think of specific and tangible outcomes to drive toward.
RIAZ MANGLO
FOUNDER
TALEEMDAN
PCC ALUM 2023;
TRAINER PCC 2024
Before People’s Climate Collective, I dreamt of empowering my community in KhairpurMirs through TALEEMDAN, but it felt like an uphill battle. This fellowship became my launchpad. People’s Climate Collective gave me the tools to coach young minds on organizing, not just in theory, but with real-world skills. This was not just about me growing, it was about building a wave of young advocates with me. After knowing the importance of understanding the constituency at a deep level and the power of storytelling now I feel more connected to my people. This fellowship also honed my leadership and community engagement. Now, I can confidently mobilize people around issues like education, environment, and gender equality – the true pillars of TALEEMDAN.
SHAZIA SARWAR
PROJECT COORDINATOR
DOABA FOUNDATION
PCC ALUM 2023
As the Project Coordinator for Doaba Foundation's DiDRR initiative in Multan and Muzaffargarh, relief for vulnerable communities drives my every action. I knew, deep down, that this could be so much more instead of only collaborating with the district government. The People’s Climate Collective was not just a workshop, but a journey. I realized 1-on-1 meetings were not just feedback sessions, they were moments of empathy and shared strength. By knowing the real decision-maker I was able to get the accessibility assessment of the relief camps done with the local government being on board. PCC did not just give me tools, it gave me a powerful lens to see the world. From Multan to Muzaffargarh, and beyond, I carry the lessons learned, forever grateful for the journey that began at PCC.