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Public Policy of Aging and Old Age for the Elderly in Cali 2017-2027

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(Español) Santiago de Cali - Colombia

Region
Latin America and the Caribbean
Range of Demographic Size
1,000,000 inhabitants or more (metropolis)

10-2 By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.

10.3 Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard.

11.7 By 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for women and children, older persons and persons with disabilities.

16.7 Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.

16.6 Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels.

A - Full integration of population dynamics into sustainable development with equality and respect for human rights.

C - Ageing, social protection and socioeconomic challenges

American Convention on Human Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

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

Summary

The Public Policy of Aging and Old Age for the Elderly in Santiago de Cali 2017-2027 is the result of a highly participative process, agreed and coordinated with different institutional and social players which are the reflection of joint interests in the transformation of the quality of life of the elderly. In this sense, this public policy aims at strengthening the coordinated work in governance, in order to have an impact on the protection, promotion and full exercise of the rights of the elderly. It is organized in four basic axes: Participation and Guarantee of Rights, Comprehensive Social Protection, Active Aging, Research and Education.

Implementation Date:

Start: 08 / 4 / 2017

End: End: Currently in force

HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE - Aging
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The main problem it aims to solve is linked to the violation of the rights of elderly citizens which gives rise to lack of protection, insufficient income for their sustenance, and few participation mechanisms for the senior population. One of most concerning factors is insufficient income for their sustenance. In Cali, only 26.2% of male and female senior citizens are retired and only 11% receive a pension, which means approximately 60% of the population is unprotected (2012 Employment Quality of Life Survey) In this way, senior citizens are forced to relate to the labor market; consequently, the employment participation is considerably high (30.5%) and most of them are related to the informal unregistered market (66.6%). As regards poverty indexes, for this population, they reach 35.7% in poverty and 11.9% in extreme poverty; the mountain-slope urban zones and rural sectors are the ones with the highest percentages As regards to the residential arrangements and family conditions of senior citizens, it is evidenced that 8% of the population live alone and that most of them live in nuclear or big families.
Actively having an impact on the promotion, protection, recognition, restitution and full exercise of human rights at inter-sector and territorial levels regarding the conditions of social development to address the political, social, economic, cultural and environmental demands in the municipality of Santiago de Cali.
The Secretariat of Social Welfare undertakes the Public Policy technical coordination function as well as the design, agreement and execution of the Aging and Old Age Indication Plan with a minimum term of four years; with its objectives, axes, lines, strategies, proceedings, responsible individuals, resources, goals and indicators for its implementation and co-financing. Such plan will be discussed and agreed in the Technical Committee of the Elderly in the Municipality.
All municipal administration bodies of Cali are coordinated by the municipal major. All the decisions and actions of the Municipality aimed at the senior population must be consistent and in line with the Public Policy of Aging and Old Age of the Municipality of Santiago de Cali, to which end the diagnosis on the situation of senior individuals must be updated on an annual basis.
With Agreement 420 of 2017, the Municipality of Santiago de Cali adopts the 2017-27 Public Policy of Aging and Old Age for the Elderly. In addition, the internal regulations on issues such as the granting of special benefits to senior individuals (Act 1171 of 2007); protection, promotion and defense of rights (Act 1251 of 2008); comprehensive care in Centros Vida (Life Centers) and Centros de Protección (Protection Centers) (Act 1276 of 2009, Act 1315 of 2019), and the creation of protection and penalization measures for intra-family abuse (Act 1850 of 2017).
The elderly
Seminars/events
Social/citizen participation
Advice
Awareness and/or information campaigns
The Public Policy has a vital cycle approach involving all the population indirectly; it promotes the construction of an active and healthy aging culture; and uses strategies such as the inter-generation meetings and awareness campaigns, among others to give new meaning to the aging process. A highly participative socialization process was carried out -including the 21 communes, 15 small towns and also schools, universities and protection centers- through the methodology Coffee of the World. Conversation meetings about the intervention priorities for the Public Policy and the response to needs were held. Promotion and prevention day sessions are organized in communes and small towns, generating participation sites to provide education about their rights and duties, contributing to the collective empowerment of the population and their families. The intervention in the groups of senior citizens is carried out in order to strengthen the basic organizations of the elderly, promoting autonomy and social participation. This is made through workshops of organizational strengthening on administrative and accounting processes, drafting of regulations and participation in and election of Directive Councils. The peaceful settlement of conflicts is also prioritized. These strategies favor the social participation and governance, factors which give rise to the empowerment of the community and work in networks.
The Policy proposes integrating the services aimed at the senior population in just one space called Service Center for Senior Citizens as an innovative action. It is a comprehensive model of care which offers services such as legal counseling, trainings in art and crafts, and psychosocial and family care through the Secretariat of Social Welfare; it also provides assistance to bodies or entities related to the process such as the Housing, Sports, Security and Justice, Attention to Armed Conflict Victims Secretariats, SISBEN, BEPS and the National Registry of Statistics. In addition, as a response to the problem of violence and abuse to the senior population, a Care and Prevention Structure for the senior citizens who are victims of violence is established –in line with several entities – and which allows optimizing and ratifying the competencies of each sector through strategies and tools designed and planned jointly for the attention of victims of different types of violence. The coordinated work favors awareness and higher integration of the targeted actions which improve the quality of life of these people in Cali.
Inter-entity agreements and public-private alliances have been entered into with different entities such as Ivonne and Dclass beauty academies, the National Learning Service (SENA), the Dental Professional Association and Mi Querido Abuelo (My Dear Grandpa) to consolidate the services’ offer in those institutions where possible. At the same time, the culture of aging is promoted in a new, active and healthy manner.
Both in the design and formulation process and in the implementation, the participation mechanisms had a key role in the construction of the Public Policy. Two frameworks have been established: 1- The Municipal Round Table of Senior Citizens, composed of a representative of each of the communes and small towns of the city to guarantee political incidence through the dialogue with the central administration, deploying participative governance and participation strategies. It calls direct representatives of senior citizens, their organizations, recognized unions, networks and collective expressions which act as their expression, voice and representation. 2- The Technical Committee, composed of a representative of each entity of the municipality, members of private entities who work for senior citizens and representatives of the civil society, to coordinate the implementation of the Public Policy, to be a liaison between institutions and to generate strategic actions in favor of the senior population.
In the Municipal Agreement, an annual budget is approved for the policy which is raised from own resources of the Municipal administration given by the Pro-Welfare Stamp. As regards human resources, the Policy assigns a trained human group through each of the investment projects which are generated for the welfare of senior citizens. The program establishes a training and awareness system for public and private officers in order to raise awareness over the differentiated care for senior population.
It has a Technical Round Table for the follow-up and monitoring of the Public Policy. It is a liaison entity in which each of the bodies, through a delegate, presents the progress in the implementation of the public policy and more integrated visions on the strategies and action lines to intervene on behalf of the elderly population of the city. Additionally, the Policy manages a quarterly follow-up methodology through follow-up formats by entity. Each of them is in charge of preparing the formats that are collected by the Secretariat of Welfare which, in turn, prepares an annual management report to be presented before the Committee of Social Policy of the local government. The report records the main progress of the implementation and the challenges and goals to be achieved according to the goals and the indicative plan of the Public Policy.
Local goverment
During the two years in which the Public Policy has been implemented, a total of 264,531 senior citizens have been cared for as direct beneficiaries, which account for 78.63% of the elderly population of the city. This figure is obtained from the characterization information system of DUB beneficiaries (Recipient, User and Beneficiary) and of the collection of the report of the implementation of the public policy submitted before the Committee of Public Policy of the Municipality which details the number of beneficiaries per projects of each responsible entity. The Public Policy has generated an improvement in the investment and prioritization of social programs, on behalf of the elderly population in Cali. One of the programs with the best economic investment and which has caused the most changes in the active life expectancy of the elderly population is Centro Vida (Life Center). Since its implementation it has benefited 1,804 people with a comprehensive care in seven areas of intervention, which are: nutrition, psychosocial support, support networks, primary health care, productive occupation of free time, recreation and sports and inter-generational meetings. These areas have contributed to improving the quality of life of the beneficiaries and to strengthening the family bonds and the active aging of senior citizens. The program Canas y Ganas (Gray hair and Willingness) of the Secretariat of Sports and Recreation can also be pointed out; it has taken care of a total of 12,287 individuals. This program develops directed gym activities, psychosocial actions and mental games to promote physical, spiritual and mental activity in the groups of senior citizens in the city.
The Secretariat of Social Welfare has the characterization Information system of DUB beneficiaries (Recipient, User and Beneficiary) which allows the collection, storage, administration, visualization and analysis of great number of data of the cared, vulnerable populations. This enables the follow-up and traceability of interventions and activities developed with the different vulnerable populations. In this way, the patterns in the social dynamics are understood, which allows implementing significant actions and changes in the life of these individuals in a concrete manner. Additionally, thanks to the ordered and efficient data production, the Senior Citizen program of the Secretariat of Social Welfare has published a set of open data, fostering transparency and placing research tools available to the citizens. The communication strategy is composed of actions and products produced from the communicational needs of each area, implemented from the bases of the Public Policy of Aging and Old Age. Brand: #YoTambienSereMayor -IWillAlsoBeOld (included in all pieces and contents).
(Español) Sitio oficial del Municipio de Cali

Instrumentos

10-2 By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.

10.3 Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard.

11.7 By 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for women and children, older persons and persons with disabilities.

16.7 Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.

16.6 Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels.

A - Full integration of population dynamics into sustainable development with equality and respect for human rights.
C - Ageing, social protection and socioeconomic challenges
American Convention on Human Rights
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
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
1,000,000 inhabitants or more (metropolis)

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