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Together for a Better Tomorrow
The Asia Pacific Social Forum (APSF) was started through an online event in 2022 as a process of encounters, held in an open space as per WSF principles , where organizations and movements can come and interact to address critical challenges facing the Asia Pacific region. This forum serves as an essential space for civil society organizations, grassroots movements, and social justice advocates to engage in collective reflections, strategic mobilizations, and policy-oriented discussions through self-organized activities.
Making an Impact:
About APSF
The APSF is envisioned as a collaborative and participatory process of self-organized activities designed for thematic dialogues, self-organized activities, and cultural exchanges, aiming at inclusive outcomes, announcing next steps/activities, and public actions. Organizers of activities are invited to give special attention to the engagement of youth and grassroots movements, recognizing their critical role in shaping sustainable and equitable futures.
Given the complex social, political, and environmental landscape of the region, the APSF is a common space maintained by the APSF facilitation group where we can foster solidarities, advocacies, and coordinated actions among the diverse participants. APSF serves as a crucial common tool in reinforcing regional and global alliances, ensuring that civil society remains a powerful force in advocating for justice, equality, and democratic governance.
Given the complex social, political, and environmental landscape of the region, the APSF is a common space maintained by the APSF facilitation group where we can foster solidarities, advocacies, and coordinated actions among the diverse participants. APSF serves as a crucial common tool in reinforcing regional and global alliances, ensuring that civil society remains a powerful force in advocating for justice, equality, and democratic governance.
Making an impact:
General goals of participation of organizations and movements in the APSF
Strengthen Regional Solidarities and Cooperations – Develop collaboration among civil society organizations, grassroots movements, and youth leaders in order to build and strengthen joint efforts to address social, political, and environmental challenges while reinforcing alliances for long-term change.
Enhance capabilities for Strategic Advocacy and Policy Engagement – By building a relevant and diverse policy-oriented discussion base that empowers grassroots movements, informs decision-making, and gives way to coordinated advocacy efforts for justice, equality, and democratic governance.
Sustain Inclusive and Participatory Processes - Through which marginalized communities, youth, and civil society actors actively contribute to shaping policies and fostering a just, peaceful, and sustainable future.
About APSF thematic connection spaces (TCS)
- The APSF open space is currently implemented online through 13 Thematic Connection Spaces (TCSs) around the 13 broad themes of WSF 2024
https://wsf2024nepal.org/theme
After filling out a “join APSF” online form participants can start interacting around invitations that they share about in-person, hybrid or online activities.
Movements and Organizations joining in as participants in the APSF space and process are encouraged to propose activities and/or come take part in activities proposed by others.
In those activities, they can engage in dialogues and deliberations and contribute to the formulation of strategies that will strengthen regional cooperation and advocacy efforts.
The APSF is a sustained process of activities/encounters/dialogues aimed at fostering long-term change through the exchange of experiences, debate, cooperation, alliance building and strategizing, and coordination for implementations.
After convening an event in 2022 and contributing to the preparation of the WSF2024 event(*), the APSF facilitation group is working on convening an APSF event held in early November 2025, which will be a visible 2025 moment in the permanent APSF process
(*) https://wsf2024nepal.org, see the public outcomes of activities in the WSF2024 event here: https://wsf2024nepal.org/square-of-statement
Activities in APSF process and event ( Oct 31-Nov 5 2025)
More information to come soon …….
WSF principles
The WSF charter of principles is ” to be respected by all those who wish to take part in the process and to organize new editions of the World Social Forum “, is the reference conceptual-formal-ideological document for World social forum process participants- https://wsf2024nepal.org/individual/aboutus/100
It clarifies the format : WSF as a process of a diversity of encounters, self organized between civil society organizations, held in an open space. (principles 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9)
It clarifies the generic values and expectations/goals of participation of the entities and individuals present in the WF space-process ( Principles 1 2 4 8 10 11 12 13 )
