Tomando conciencia social sobre el papel de la ciudadanía en el desarrollo sostenible: los Mercaos Sociales del Sur como catalizadores locales de prácticas de consumo y producción sostenibles

Summary of the project

The achievement of sustainable development is a task shared by the whole of society, public and private institutions, companies, social partners and citizens.
All Civil Society Organizations have a fundamental role in raising the awareness of citizens about how important is a sustainable development. Their decisions are supportive or detrimental to sustainability. Therefore, citizens should be formed and trained on sustainable development, for them to be able to get involved in an active mode and also participate in the achievement of a better sustainable life style.
Following this purpose, the proposal is designed to aimed an improvement of the social conscience of the Andalusian citizens, for them to be aware on the importance and necessity of adopting sustainable patterns of consumption and production, through the strengthening of their capacities. At the same time facilitating local tools for them to practice a sustainable lifestyle. This is designed a comprehensive program of training-action structured in two phases, first focusing on training and awareness (training workshops and public awareness campaign) and a second focused on mobilization and advocacy (fair and public meeting of participants).

Beneficiaries

The target groups will be consuming people (citizenship in general and consumers about 720 persons) and producers, producers (12), two actors equally important to green our economy.