Past, present and future…

For 10 years, the Update Institute has been working to foster political imagination and strengthen democracy. Learn about our journey so far:

Mission

Strengthening initiatives and empowering innovative practices that spring from the political imagination of women: young, grassroots, black, indigenous and LBTQIA+, bringing leaders and their territories closer to institutional politics.

Vission

More participatory and popular political systems, with greater diversity and representation of young, popular, black, indigenous and LBTQIA+ women in Latin America; and collectives, people and institutions committed to climate, social, racial and gender justice.

Our way of doing things

Articulation and networking

Connecting initiatives for more political and electoral representation. To systematize, strengthen and collectively communicate experiences, tools and processes of political innovation in Latin America, based on local experiences and territorial work.

Political and electoral training

Increase the resilience of women and diversity in politics. Boost their feminist and anti-racist agendas for climate, social, racial and gender justice.

Political imagination

To bring Latin American activists, content producers and opinion makers closer together in the construction and mobilization of narratives based on the political imaginary of women and diversity and on climate, social, racial and gender justice agendas.

Political Incidence

To support and encourage the political advocacy carried out by initiatives for more political and electoral representation in order to promote a collective and popular change in the political system.

Diversity, equity, inclusion and justice are transversal and fundamental values.

We carry out regional projects for a more diverse and representative institutional policy, but we also seek to institutionalize these values within our own organization and in the community of partners and suppliers with whom we work.

Care, collaboration and representativeness: an exercise in participatory democracy.

Caring for people, collaboration and representativeness are part of our commitment to experimenting and exercising inside, what we seek outside: to promote the democratization and decentralization of spaces of power.