---
title: Delibera Brasil
type: ngo
status: active
country: BR
website: https://deliberabrasil.org
logo: /assets/org-logos/delibera-brasil.png
contact:
  checked: 2026-08-09
  email: comunicacao@deliberabrasil.org
  phone: +55 11 95381-1356
  source: https://deliberabrasil.org
summary: A Brazilian deliberative democracy organisation that designs and runs citizens'
  assemblies and minipublics using sortition — operating climate assemblies in the
  Amazon, minipublics in São Paulo's periphery, and theatre-based follow-up to turn
  assembly recommendations into policy.
concepts:
- citizens-assembly
- deliberative-democracy
- sortition
- participatory-budgeting
location:
  latitude: -23.5505
  longitude: -46.6333
  name: São Paulo, Brazil
  precision: city
events:
- date: '2020-01-01'
  title: Organisation established — begins running deliberative minipublics in Brazil
  url: https://deliberabrasil.org/sobre/
  quote: O Coletivo Delibera Brasil é uma organização sem fins lucrativos e suprapartidária
    que objetiva contribuir para o fortalecimento e aprofundamento da democracia brasileira,
    promovendo a Deliberação Cidadã, principalmente a partir de uma metodologia de
    ação conhecida como Minipúblico.
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-12'
  notable: true
- date: '2021-01-01'
  title: Climate Assemblies of Pará launched — citizen deliberation in the Amazon
    on climate policy
  url: https://deliberabrasil.org/projetos/primeira-assembleia-cidada-sobre-o-clima-em-cidades-amazonicas/
  quote: O município selecionado foi Bujaru, no Pará
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-13'
  notable: true
- date: '2025-01-01'
  title: Assembleias Cidadãs de Moçambique — climate resilience assemblies launched
    in Mozambique
  url: https://deliberabrasil.org/projetos/assembleias-cidadas-de-mocambique-sobre-as-mudancas-climaticas/
  quote: Diálogo público sobre resiliência climática e uso de recursos naturais
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-13'
  notable: false
activity:
  dod:
    checked: 2026-08-09
    date: 2026-08-09
    note: Confirmed live and active — 2025 project updates on climate assemblies in
      Pará/Mozambique and Osasco minipublic
last_checked: '2026-08-09'
---

Delibera Brasil designs and facilitates citizens' assemblies and minipublics — randomly selected groups of ordinary citizens who undergo an intensive learning process with experts, deliberate together, and produce policy recommendations. The method treats democracy not as a spectator sport but as something citizens do: given time, balanced information, and a structured process, laypeople reach substantive, considered conclusions on hard policy questions.

Current projects include climate assemblies in Pará (the Amazon region, working with municipalities in Barcarena and Magalhães Barata), a minipublic on climate justice in the peripheral neighbourhoods of Osasco (São Paulo), and climate resilience assemblies in Mozambique. A distinctive practice is legislative theatre — transforming assembly recommendations into theatrical scenes performed in public spaces, pushing the recommendations toward implementation rather than letting them gather dust.

The broader context matters: Porto Alegre originated participatory budgeting in 1989, but Brazil's formal PB machinery has since declined. Delibera Brasil represents the evolution of that tradition — from open budget assemblies to deliberative minipublics, from municipal PB to climate governance, from Brazil alone to the Lusophone world.

## Links

- Website: [deliberabrasil.org](https://deliberabrasil.org)

## See also

- [Citizens' Assembly](../concepts/citizens-assembly.md)
- [Deliberative Democracy](../concepts/deliberative-democracy.md)
- [Sortition](../concepts/sortition.md)
- [Participatory Budgeting](../concepts/participatory-budgeting.md)