Ecojesuit started 2020 by building on the momentum gained from the 2019 Annual Meeting in India and COP25 in Madrid, where the network organized a merged session in the Capacity-Building Hub at COP25 with the Dedicated Grant Mechanism for Indigenous People and Local Communities. A Workbook on Effective Collaboration was released in January that highlights the learnings of Ecojesuit, capturing insights from the past year, and putting forward suggestions. The network continued to support the message of the Amazon Synod through its final document, Querida Amazonia. In March, Ecojesuit engaged with Loyola University Chicago’s Climate Change Conference pre-event, a workshop for Jesuit-affiliated colleagues that focused on community-based participatory research. Case studies from India, Nicaragua, and the Philippines were presented that highlighted the importance of working with communities and approaches to locally-led sustainable development through agroecology, forest management, and natural resource conservation. As lockdowns took effect in mid-March due to the global pandemic and planned engagements were cancelled, Ecojesuit took the opportunity to re-strategize and try different approaches. From May to June, the network organized a series of Conference-level dialogues for change. These were very helpful in understanding the local-regional contexts at a “time of great uncertainty” and in exploring collaborations
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