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Ordinance for the Promotion, Protection and Guarantee of the Rights of People Living in a Situation of Human Mobility

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Quito - Ecuador

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

10.7 Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies.

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

16.b Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development.

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

F - International migration and protection of the human rights of all migrants

International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CRMW).

Summary

By Ordinance 271/2008, the Municipality declares as public policy the promotion, protection and guarantee of human rights of people and families that live different mobility situations, as migrants, immigrants, displaced due to any kind of violence, people in transit and others that may be acknowledged by the Ecuadorian legislation and the Treaties and Conventions ratified by the Ecuadorian State.

In order to accomplish this, the District Plan for Human Mobility is adopted as a planning tool of permanent feedback and it establishes that all policy-making, planning, management, social information and control processes must be consistent with this Plan.

Implementation Date:

Start: 10 / 3 / 2008

End: End: Currently in force

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Quito records a high growth in migration, peaking between 1998 and 1999. According to the last Population and Housing Census (INEC, 2010), there are, to a national level, 30,133 migrants from 157 nations of the world and Quito concentrates 75% of the total. However, during the last years, there is a constant increase in migrant population that arrives in the country in conditions of great vulnerability. In this respect, there is a great demand for services.
Regulate the promotion, protection and guarantee of the rights of people and families that live human mobility situations, bearing in mind principles such as non-discrimination, social inclusion and integration, the exercise and enjoyment of human rights, the guarantee of universal and quality public services, and others.
Secretariat for Social Inclusion, a political and technical agency in charge of leading, planning, organizing, managing, monitoring and assessing policies, programs and projects to achieve social inclusion in priority care groups.
The city of Quito has a Metropolitan Development Plan with three core topics: Quito Inteligente, Quito Solidiario and Quito de Oportunidades. Human mobility issues, understood from social inclusion, are present in Quito Solidario core topic, which sets forth conditions to guarantee that different social sectors may access programs and services that allow them to have a life in dignity. The project “Quito Ciudad Inclusiva” sets up different strategies and actions for the benefit of priority care groups and people in a situation of vulnerability, in order to build a territory free of discrimination, exclusion or violence for all.
Ordinance Nº 271/2008.
International migrants, asylum applicants and refugees
Developing of regulations
Creation of entity/plan/programme
The ordinance was made collaboratively by sectors of the civil society, foundations, migrant associations, academia, among others. All policy-making, planning, management, social information and control processes must be consistent with the “District Plan for Human Mobility”. The comprehensive nature of the policies is proposed with an approach of diversity and intersectionality. The creation of a District System of Human Mobility is established to develop the Plan. The main actions are: • District Board: it establishes permanent participatory mechanisms that guarantee the right of people to organize, be informed and consulted, and to intervene in the design and follow-up of municipal policies. • District Service Network: it is formed by municipal, public and private agencies acting within the district. • Housing for Human Mobility: these houses provide specialized shelter services, social legal counselling, humanitarian and psychological assistance to migrants, immigrants and their relatives. • District Monitory Center: it manages an information and research base that sustains district policy-making and the comprehensive action aimed at promoting and protecting the rights of people who live in human mobility contexts and their families. A protection and support system is strengthened at the educational, shelter, awareness and care centers for the children of people in human mobility situations; penalties are imposed on municipal officers that discriminate or infringe upon the rights of people in human mobility situations. As regards the implementation of actions in the municipality structure, the monitory center proposes the development of: citizen sensitization and awareness, promotion and fulfilment of rights, strategic alliances with international cooperation, etc.
The Jesuit Service to Refugees and Migrants and the Social Pastoral of Human Mobility. The City Council of Madrid contributed funds for the strengthening of human mobility policies in the district.
The district plan was made in a participatory way with the support of National Government institutions, as well as large sectors of the civil society, foundations, migrant associations, academia, among others. The Secretariat for Social Inclusion leads the District Human Mobility Board where players of national Government, international organizations, partner agencies and civil society organizations meet.
The ordinance sets forth that the general budget must have an annual caption –of at least 10% corresponding to the non-tax revenues– to strengthen and create programs, projects and services addressed to the vulnerable population of the district, including those mentioned in the “District Plan for Human Mobility”.
http://gobiernoabierto.quito.gob.ec/?page_id=990
Local goverment
International cooperation
Human mobility has been understood in the context of complex relationships which are part of everyday life in the city. This has led the Municipality to meet the needs of the different groups in human mobility, and that these answers are understood as basic rights and guarantees of development. Therefore, initiatives around human mobility from a complex socio-political perspective were developed, towards the creation of a city with inclusion, justice and solidarity. Finally, human mobility has been positioned as a social fact with multiple structural causes that must be understood so as to create inclusion public policies, to overcome the paradigm of migration seen only from the economic perspective. This is the perspective the Municipality of Quito committed to organize the II Mayors Forum on Migration and Development, which sought to underline the leading role the cities have in undertaking migration governance and using its potential for development. The possibility of having regulatory and institutional clarity permitted to allocate human and financial resources to human mobility issues based on the competences of the local Government.
The Municipality has a website where the open government was implemented. “Quito Ciudad Inclusiva” has a section in the website in which information, plans, accountabilities, etc., are published. http://gobiernoabierto.quito.gob.ec/?page_id=6734
(Español) Ordenanza municipal Nº 0271, incorporación capítulo protección de los derechos de niños y adolescentes en situación de riesgo



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10.7 Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies.

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

16.b Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development.

A - Full integration of population dynamics into sustainable development with equality and respect for human rights.
F - International migration and protection of the human rights of all migrants
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CRMW).

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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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