Catalogue of Local Inclusive Public Policies

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Envión Avellaneda Program

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Avellaneda - Argentina

Region
Latin America and the Caribbean
Range of Demographic Size
500,000 to 999,999 inhabitants (big)

4.1 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education which must be free, equitable and of quality and leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes.

4.3 By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university.

4.4 By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and professional skills, to access employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.

B - Rights, needs, responsibilities and requirements of girls, boys, adolescents and youth

American Convention on Human Rights

Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in economic, social and cultural rights (San Salvador Protocol).

Summary

The Envión Avellaneda program is a social policy focused on the young population aged between 12 and 21 in a vulnerable situation or who suffer unmet basic needs. Through the inclusion, protection, and prevention in the fields of education, work, health, arts, and sports, together with the Municipal Council for Inclusion Policies and New Projects, the idea is to generate participation spaces for teenagers to be able to access different stages of training which strengthen their attitudes and aptitudes for their performance in school and work life. At the same time, the community, family and affective links are strengthened, which allows the teenagers to develop and grow and to move away from spaces and situations of vulnerability and social exclusion. The program has 10 field offices where 3,200 young people take part and who also receive a cash grant.

Implementation Date:

Start: 04 / 5 / 2005

End: End: Currently in force

Education - Formal education Education - Non-formal education HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE - General health HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE - Social security
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The fragmentation of the social bond deepens and accelerates exclusion, which leaves young adults on the edge of deterritorialization and denies them the possibility of belonging. This process generates helplessness and vulnerability, expression spaces are narrowed down and closed, subjectivity is deconstructed and inequality and violence occur. Territories are dynamic, create social players and build paths which fluctuate between spaces of inclusion and experiences of exclusion. The program attempts to come up with answers to these challenges in the everyday management of a public policy which has young adults as the center, together with professionals, from the creation of collective work strategies integrated into the community and the treatment of different components which allow a comprehensive accompaniment of the processes of social inclusion of young adults.
To promote the full social integration of male and female teenagers and young adults from the Avellaneda county aged between 12 and 21 who are in a socially vulnerable situation or who suffer unmet basic needs. To deepen the inclusion processes for these young adults, creating mechanisms which allow the development of new manners of relating to the social environment and overcoming social and family conditioning.
The Municipal Council for Inclusion Policies and New Projects is responsible for the implementation. It manages the funds it receives from the Social Development Department of Buenos Aires Province and guards the resources and spaces of the municipal government.
The city works closely with the Secretariats of Health and Education, municipal primary care facilities, cultural points, local clubs, ad well as with the Social Observatory of Public Policies and the Secretariat of Citizen Safety, among others. At a provincial level, it works with provincial hospitals and the Social Development Department among others; and at a national level, with the Department of Access to Justice under the sphere of the state attorney. It also works with museums and places of cultural interest in general.
Within the national context, the National Act No. 26,061 for the Comprehensive Protection of Rights of Boys, Girls and Adolescents enacted in 2005 states that public policies must guarantee with absolute priority the exercise of the rights of girls, boys and adolescents. In the Province of Buenos Aires, the framework supporting this public policy is Provincial Act No. 13,298 of Promotion and Protection of Rights of Boys, Girls and Adolescents, enacted in 2005.
The youth
Children and teenagers
Seminars/events
Social/citizen participation
Education and training
There are ten offices distributed among the most vulnerable neighborhoods. Youngsters receive grants provided in conjunction with schools. Enrollments arise from the territorial work of the professionals working in the program, which takes a census in households to assess the vulnerability conditions and designs an action plan specific for each young adult. Access is also possible through the survey of the schools in the municipality which allows the detection of boys and girls who have dropped out or those who are at severe risk of doing so; through the information provided by those in charge of community shelters and health centers, among others. The program is basically implemented through three components: ● Educational: the pedagogical leader links the boy or the girl with the last school they attended or attends and coordinates their participation in the spaces of the office: school support and workshops, sports and recreational activities. FinEs groups are based in two of the field offices of the program through which they can earn the high school diploma in three years. There is also a vocational orientation workshop. ● Health: the Municipal Institute for Sport Medicine carries out physical examinations, from which referrals are made to the different medical specialties, acting together with the health units and Perón Hospital. Training in sexually transmitted diseases prevention is offered. ● Non-formal Education. Art seminars are held: music, photography, cinema, percussion, hip-hop, rap, hair styling, and cooking, among others. In addition, there are three sports sessions in each field office.
The program seeks to create participation spaces aimed at young people so that they can access different education stages which strengthen their attitudes and aptitudes for their performance in school and work life. At the same time, the community, family and affective links are strengthened which allow the teenagers to develop and grow and to move away from spaces and situations of vulnerability and social exclusion.
The program was created by the Municipality of Avellaneda. In 2009, it became a provincial policy and was undertaken by the Social Development Department of the Province of Buenos Aires. In this sense, it is a public policy of social responsibility shared by both the government and private companies of Avellaneda who contributed funds to the Municipality.
Given that this is a public policy anchored in the territory, all the available social participation mechanisms are used informally. This entails participation in neighborhood committees, dialogue with neighbor associations, neighborhood social clubs, senior citizens centers, etc.
This is a consolidated program which arose from the municipal scope and was then extended to the province. The technical resources arise both from the Municipality (building resources, repairs, consumables, food) and from private companies which contribute money for the acquisition of consumables for the workshops. The grant budget for the target population and the fees of the professional staff come from the provincial budget under the scope of the Social Development Department of the Province of Buenos Aires. All these resources are managed by the Municipal Council for Inclusion Policies and New Projects.
It is carried out through the collection, registration and analysis of soft and hard data provided by each of the areas of intervention: health, formal education, non-formal education and sports. Charts, graphs, tables, interviews, surveys, observations, questionnaires and other records are part of the actions which allow the evaluation of the program.
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Even if this type of policies create subjective results which may be affected by the wider social contexts, the following results may be provided for 2018 as an example of their scope: ● 3,292 youngsters take active part of Envión Avellaneda together with 177 mentors. ● 600 participating young adults had access to physical examinations for the practice of sports during year 2018, which meant an increase of 20% against the previous year. ● 50 young adults had access to reading glasses due to eye problems and 17 to dental prostheses to regain mouth aesthetics and health. ● In addition, each youngster has access to a quality breakfast, a lunch and tea refreshment every day; they have two sports sessions a week and participate in the 56 art workshops distributed among the 10 field offices. This contributed to the comprehensiveness of their personal growth as well as the previous items mentioned before.
The main and most sensitive manner of record is the personal file of each youngster in the program, which includes any relevant information for the reconstruction of their journey. In turn, each area head prepared monthly reports based on the information collected in the areas of education, health, sports and non-formal education, under the charge of each of the pedagogical and health leaders, teachers and craftsmen of each field office. Finally, this information is compiled in annual management reports which are submitted to each cell participating in the program and also news are shared in the program’s social media channels.
(Español) La principal forma de registro y la más sensible es el legajo personal de cada joven del programa, en el que se incluye todo dato relevante para la reconstrucción de su recorrido. A su vez, cada responsable de área realiza informes mensuales basados en la información recogida en las áreas de educación, salud, deportes y educación no formal, a cargo de las y los responsables pedagógicos, responsables de salud, profesores y talleristas de cada sede. Por último, esa información se compila en informes de gestión anuales que son entregados a cada célula participante del Programa y a la vez se comparten noticias en las redes sociales del Programa.
● Construir Igualdad Award (2019 edition) – CIPDH-UNESCO
(Español) Sedes del Programa Envión

Instrumentos

4.1 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education which must be free, equitable and of quality and leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes.

4.3 By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university.

4.4 By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and professional skills, to access employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.

B - Rights, needs, responsibilities and requirements of girls, boys, adolescents and youth
American Convention on Human Rights
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in economic, social and cultural rights (San Salvador Protocol).

Location

Region
Latin America and the Caribbean
Range of Demographic Size
500,000 to 999,999 inhabitants (big)

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