Transcidadania Program

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São Paulo - Brazil

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

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.

4.5 By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations.

4.6 By 2030, ensure that all youth and at least a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy.

4.7 By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development, among other means.

5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere in the world.

5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.

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.

10.4 Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality.

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

E - Gender equality

G - Territorial inequality, spatial mobility and vulnerability

American Convention on Human Rights

• Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women (Convention of Belém do Pará)

Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

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

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

Summary

This program is implemented jointly by the municipal secretariats of Human Rights and Citizenship (Sexual Diversity Coordination) and of Economic and Work Development. This is an initiative which promotes and strengthens labor inclusion, social reintegration and valorization of the citizenship for the LGBTI population with violated rights.

It has the general purpose of providing a historical reparation to transvestites and transgender persons through psychosocial, legal and pedagogical support to reduce social inequality.

In its implementation, it combines inter-sectorial actions with other municipal areas such as education, health and social assistance. It includes strategies such as the transfer of income conditioned by the development of formal and informal educational activities, the support during the transgender process and the heath demands it entails, etc.

Implementation Date:

Start: 01 / 1 / 2015

End: End: Currently in force

Gender and sexual diversity - Diversity and sexual Identity Education - Formal education Education - Non-formal education Local economic development - Employment Local economic development - Education / Labor Training Gender and sexual diversity - Equality
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A diagnosis made by the Municipal Secretariat of Human Rights and Citizenship and the Organized Transvestites and Transgender Social Movement enabled the identification and verification of main the leading social vulnerabilities affecting the people of the LGBTI group: ● School exclusion during childhood and adolescence based on prejudice and lack of preparation of the educational team to tackle the specific needs of this population. ● Lack of family and social support for the permanence in the school context which allows their comprehensive development. ● School as space for re-victimization. Need to build a friendly and duly prepared educational or school context, where gender identity is respected.
General ● Promoting social re-integration and recovery of the citizenship for transvestites, transgender women and men and trans-men in vulnerable situations. ● Providing a historical reparation to transgender people through psychosocial, legal and pedagogical assistance services to reduce social inequality. Specific ● Granting educational and charitable opportunities to beneficiaries so that they can finish primary or secondary school, acquire technical or professional education and develop citizenship practices. ● Transferring income to both beneficiaries so that they complete the burden of activities contemplated by the program. ● Providing psychosocial, legal and pedagogical assistance to beneficiaries for the two years of permanence in the program. ● Qualifying and humanizing the public service to transvestites and transgender individuals in social vulnerable situation.
Municipal Secretariat of Human Rights and Citizenship-Sexual Diversity Coordination. Municipal Secretariat of Economic and Work Development.
The Municipal and State Education Secretariats intervene to guarantee the access to education for youths and adults. Municipal Secretariat of Health: intervenes to guarantee the hormonal supports set forth in the transgender process and respond to other health demands which might arise and that the program has not provided. Municipal Secretariat of Assistance and Social Development: to manage the transfer of income and eventual benefits, channel the institutional reception and strengthening of the bonds with the target population.
Executive Order No. 55,874 of January 29, 2015, amended by Executive Order No. 58277 of May 16, 2018. Act No. 13,178 of September 17, 2001 of the creation of the Collective Work Action Program of the Municipality of Sao Paulo, with an amendment in the text approved by Act No 13,689 of December 19, 2003.
LGBTI Population
Financial/legal/technical assistence
Education and training
Institutional strengthening
The main strategy which structures the Transcidadania Program is the generation of financial autonomy conditions for transvestites and transgender individuals, by means of an income transfer conditioned by the development of activities such as finishing the basic education (primary or middle school), attendance to orientation activities to enter the labor market, or professional or citizenship education in human rights. This strategy is implemented around four work axes: i) More autonomy: it contemplates the enrollment of the beneficiary population in the Programa Operação Trabalho (POT) Transcidadania for two years. In addition, it provides the registry of beneficiaries in the Unique Registry of Social Program of the Federal Government (Unique CAD) and allows for their access to other benefits such as the Programa Bolsa Familia. ii) More opportunities: it concentrates and articulates actions aimed at allowing the acquisition of basic skills to facilitate the occupational insertion process. It offers school education in the basic education cycles (basic or middle level), foresees the inclusion of beneficiaries in the National Program of Access to Technical Education and Employment (PRONATEC) and includes activities for the preparation of the entry to the labor market (preparation for interviews, preparation of the study plan, access to public and private networks of employment mediation and development of activities in related areas with course offered through the PRONATEC). iii) More citizenship: it includes giving citizenship, human rights and democracy courses, as well as a social participation plan in the follow-up of municipal projects. iv) Institutional improvement: it includes education and training actions for public employees to achieve an appropriate and humanized support to the target population. Among these actions we can mention the referral and training of teams for the attention of cases of violence against women, HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment, mental health and basic health.
The Transcidadania Program is the first public initiative that works with a historical reparation perspective of institutional violence suffered by transvestites and transgender individuals. It guarantees the return and permanence in the free public school system through the transfer of income, supporting a population in a situation of extreme social vulnerability.
Its implementation and the support of the beneficiaries is conducted in association with civil society organizations/third sector through the four LGBTI Citizenship center in São Paulo: ● Luiz Carlos Ruas LGBTI Citizenship Center (downtown); ● Laura Vermont LGBTI Citizenship Center (eastern area); ● Luana Barbosa dos Reis LGBTI Citizenship Center (northern area); ● Edson Neris LGBTI Citizenship Center (southern area). In 2017, the Transcidadania Program was decentralized in these four center because previously it was only implemented from the center/downtown.
The beneficiaries periodically perform an impact assessment. In addition, the Municipality is working to set about other mechanisms which promote the population’s participation in the Program’s management.
The continuity of the Program is planned through the regulations that created them and the institutional agreements among the municipal secretariats participating in its implementation.
According to the provisions set forth in the executive order which provided for the creation of the Program, the Inter-departmental Transcidadania Committee was created with powers to supervise and evaluate its execution, as well as to propose its improvement. Such committee is integrated by the following municipal secretariats: Human Rights and Citizenship; Economic and Work Development; Social Development; Education; Health and Mobility and Transport.
Local goverment
Since 2015, about 600 people have become beneficiaries of this Program which reaches all the regions of São Paulo city. The decentralization of the program from the central region to the east, south and north of the city has enabled the increase of the associated public establishments, the number of which runs up to 50 schools. Likewise, it was possible to extend the hormonal monitoring for the central, northern and southern regions. 31 people have been employed in the formal labor market after having entered the program. As regards schooling, 3 people entered post-high school education, 53 people completed high school, 193 entered high school and the others entered high school, primary school or literacy for adults.
Students and researchers of academic institutions have formulated PhD thesis and studies regarding the impact of the program.
Official page of the Municipality of São Paulo: https://www.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/cidade/secretarias/direitos_humanos/lgbti/programas_e_projetos/index.php https://www.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/cidade/secretarias/desenvolvimento/cursos/operacao_trabalho/index.php?p=170430

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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.

4.5 By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations.

4.6 By 2030, ensure that all youth and at least a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy.

4.7 By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development, among other means.

5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere in the world.

5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.

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.

10.4 Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality.

A - Full integration of population dynamics into sustainable development with equality and respect for human rights.
E - Gender equality
G - Territorial inequality, spatial mobility and vulnerability
American Convention on Human Rights
• Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women (Convention of Belém do Pará)
Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in economic, social and cultural rights (San Salvador Protocol).
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

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

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