Public policies
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(Español) Montevideo - Uruguay

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(Español) Santa Helena - Brazil

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(Español) Tres de Febrero - Argentina

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(Español) Umán - Mexico

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(Español) San Miguel de Tucumán - Argentina

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La Serena - Chile

The Honorable Municipality of La Serena, through its Department of Inclusive Development belonging to the Office of Community Development, has detected a need among the community’s population with disabilities between the ages of 18 and 59 to have program offers aimed at providing free services for the promotion of autonomy and the conservation or maintenance of the cognitive, physical, and communicative functionality in this population segment.   To address this issue, the municipality sets out to implement a local public policy, thus establishing the “Community Day Care Center for Persons with Disabilities” and adopting a device managed by the municipality itself, unique and innovative for the region, which offers different services and benefits to persons with disabilities and carers, who are mostly female.

Huamanga - Peru

The “Open Schools” Action Plan of the Provincial Municipality of Huamanga came into force in 2019, and it experienced the most difficult conditions during the pandemic in 2020–2021, functioning uninterruptedly, and returning to safe on-site classes following biosecurity protocols established by the Ministry of Health.   The plan has had significant results with the implementation of virtual and on-site workshops of soft and socioemotional skills, underscoring the emotional well-being of children, adolescents, and their families through psychological workshops and promoting healthy and harmonic environments that contribute to a significant learning.   This municipal plan is oriented to activities with children and adolescents between 5 and 17 years of age, and it has an inclusive perspective, mainly because the target audience is composed of children living under extreme poverty, children living in shelters, and children with special abilities.

General Alvear - Argentina

AppDi is a software of augmented communication, educational and playful, developed by the Municipal Agency of Science and Technology of the city of General Alvear, Mendoza Province, Argentina.   The software facilitates learning for persons with multiple disabilities through the use of a conventional mouse or a virtual mouse connected to a webcam, which captures face movements and different facial gestures.   AppDi uses pictograms, is completely free to download and use, and is open code. It can be installed on desktop computers, notebooks, and tablets, and there is no limit on usage time or on the number of connected devices.

Cuenca - Ecuador

This ordinance establishes the legal framework for ensuring inclusion, respect, and recognition for the gender and sexually diverse population in the Cuenca canton under conditions of equality and the eradication of all forms of discrimination through multiple strategies: affirmative action policies in support of LGBTI people and of those individuals who, not belonging to any of these categories, suffer some form of discrimination by virtue of their way of experiencing sexuality or of their free body expression in relation to their gender choices; awareness-raising and training programs offered to public officials; cross-cutting focus on diversity across all its policies, plans, programs, projects, and services

Santiago de Cali - Colombia

For the first time in Colombia, a public body at the territorial level is determined to attend to some of the most significant needs of its citizens through an innovative and internationally acclaimed policy, which offers a comprehensive solution to the following issues:   1.- Qualitative public space deficit. 2.- Low use of plastic waste. 3.- High youth population with low possibilities of technical training and working relationships. 4.- High risk of violence, especially among vulnerable youth. 5.- Low appropriation of public space.   Implementation of public policy relies on the active participation of local citizens, since Cali Ecocrea understands the design of public space under a framework that involves cocreation and codesign as methodologies that are transversal to the project. These methodologies are essential because, through these building spaces, common ground for dialogue is developed, which allows for a distributed and horizontal power relationship to the benefit of the community and the learning process of all interested parties.   By building these participative design spaces, ideas come to life from their own realities and a sense of appropriation of the territory is ensured while tools and skills are exchanged with the participants, something that prompts participants into action and the empowerment of their space. In addition, by implementing a cocreative methodology, more high-risk youth from the targeted territory become involved.