Catalogue of Local Inclusive Public Policies

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“Cumplí con tu papel” Program

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San Francisco - Argentina

Region
Latin America and the Caribbean
Range of Demographic Size
50,000 to 99,999 inhabitants (small intermediate)

8.3 Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services.

8.4 Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, with developed countries taking the lead.

8.6 By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth who are not employed and who do not attend studies or receive training.

12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.

17.17 Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships. Data, monitoring and accountability

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

American Convention on Human Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

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

UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

Summary

The Program envisages an inclusive public policy that encourages partnerships leading to drive environmentally-friendly behaviors and actions to help generate decent cooperative jobs, focused on female victims of gender-based violence and young addicts.

“Cumplí con tu papel” is a program based on the separation of paper and cardboard at schools, by means of a picking, recycling and conditioning process for subsequent sale by “La Virgencita” cooperative. Coordinated by the catholic organization Cáritas, the cooperative is made up of young people who are in drug rehab and female victims of gender-based violence. The technical schools of the city contribute to the Program by building cart bikes to carry the paper, and by training “La Virgencita” members on health and safety standards at the workplace. At the same time, several private sector companies donate the materials required to build the cart bikes, through their respective corporate social responsibility or other related areas. Finally, the Secretariat of Social, Educational & Economic Development of the Municipality of San Francisco contributes to the Program by donating bikes.

As a local public policy, the Program engages several social agents (schools, businesses, government, public sector and civil society organizations) to “do their part” and fulfill their social role in the city, encouraging the empowerment of vulnerable sectors, such as victims of violence and people in drug rehab. These goals are achieved by connecting them to a cooperative place, through their right to work and making them a valuable part of the community as urban waste pickers.

Implementation Date:

Start: 03 / 1 / 2018

End: End: Currently in force

Local economic development - Cooperative movement Enviroment - Environmental education Local economic development - Employment Local economic development - Education / Labor Training Enviroment - Urban solid waste management
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Unemployment and waste buildup are two of the most pressing challenges currently faced by urban societies. Paradoxically, the solution lies at the core of the problem, for waste handling and recycling (in this case, paper and cardboard) are a source of income, provided these activities are undertaken in an organized fashion, targeted at personal and cooperative development. In addition to reducing the amount of garbage, reusing and recycling paper and cardboard waste also avoid the need for using raw materials, reduce the amount of energy required in their transformation by curbing contaminating gas emissions, and avoid the use of chemicals in industrial processes and their resulting discharges.
The purposes of “Cumplí con tu papel” Program include: • educating citizens to improve their quality of life through social and environmental responsibility actions; • fostering environmentally-friendly behaviors and actions; • helping generate decent cooperative jobs for female victims of gender-based violence and young addicts; • engaging the entire community in actions leading to mitigate the negative effects of one's own conducts, by embracing environmentally-friendly behaviors, such as separating waste by source to facilitate recycling; and • encouraging the search for technical, educational and social solutions which are viable from a social, environmental and economic standpoint.
Municipality of San Francisco: The municipal government’s intervention is key to the adherence, mobilization and ongoing participation of other civil society agents.
The Program interacts with several areas of the municipality, including the Secretariat of Economy, Secretariat of Health, Secretariat of Government, and the Secretariat of Infrastructure and Services of San Francisco.
Resolution of the City Council of San Francisco, Cordoba: Resolution No. 138/19-HCD. National Law of Cooperatives No. 20,337. Letter of commitment from schools.
Women
Children and teenagers
Private sector
Society in general
Education and training
Building of partnerships, networks, associations and coalitions
Creation of entity/plan/programme
“La Virgencita” Lda., a cooperative organized by Diocesan Cáritas, is contacted by several institutions and schools involved in the recycling Program. Once the procedure is arranged, the cooperative staff picks up the materials from the agreed-upon premises using cart bikes. Once in “La Virgencita,” the cooperative staff separates reusable paper and cardboard from non-usable elements and other disposable waste. At the cooperative, the new trainees learn about the cooperative movement principles and the business and social dimensions of collective work, getting an understanding of the benefits of a cooperative project and the professionalization and sense of commitment the job requires. In this way, pickers and recyclers have a chance to learn new skills for engagement, decision-making, negotiation, reconciliation of collective and individual interests, and strategy planning, among other useful skills in social life. IPET No. 50 and IPET No. 264—two provincial higher education institutes based in San Francisco—actively contribute to the Program. For instance, IPET No. 50 designs and builds the cart bikes used to carry the materials, while IPET No. 264 organizes educational actions to raise awareness on health and safety standards at the workplace, for pickers to be able to do their cooperative work in the best possible way, always equipped with suitable protective elements. The civil society organization Junior Chamber International (JCI) raises awareness at schools and among the business sector, which typically donates the supplies required to build the cart bikes through enterprises’ corporate social responsibility areas. The Secretariat of Social, Educational & Economic Development of the Municipality of San Francisco also provides the bikes and the wheels to assemble the carts, as a means to carry the materials for recycling.
The innovative aspect of the Program is the synergy achieved among several sectors of the society in order to contribute to the fulfilment of the stated goals.
• Schools at all education levels and provincial higher education institutes (known as IPET, for its Spanish acronym). • Diocesan Cáritas. • “La Virgencita” Ltda. cooperative. • Junior Chamber International. • Business sector of San Francisco (Province of Cordoba).
The “Cumplí Tu Papel” Program carries on monthly coordination meetings convened by the Secretariat of Social, Educational & Economic Development of San Francisco. From the beginning of the local public policy, collaborative work was done with each social agent to design and implement the Program. Besides, process assessments are conducted and a forum is organized at year-end, convening all institutions involved, public and private, to discuss achievements and reconsider the challenges ahead.
All participating institutions are equipped with the human, technical and budgetary resources required to ensure the continuity of the “Cumplí Tu Papel” Program. At the same time, and in order to reinforce the commitments undertaken, the Municipality of San Francisco and the agents involved in the Program have formalized their ongoing support by entering into letters of commitment.
Assessment of paper and cardboard quantities delivered by institutions, sales volume.
Local goverment
|Companies
Other
– The local public policy beneficiaries (youth with drug problems and female victims of gender-based violence who participate in “La Virgencita” cooperative) are trained on the cooperative movement principles and on the business, social and cooperative dimensions of collective work. – They have access to decent jobs at which their efforts are symbolically and financially recognized and appreciated. – Students across all schools learn to understand the importance of taking care of the environment. – Students from technical schools put into practice their skills to build moving devices and their knowledge on responsible health and safety practices at the workplace. – Caritas addressed the problem of getting supplies and contributions to maintain and support “La Virgencita” Ltda. cooperative. – Reduced contamination within the Municipality. – The local business sector fulfils its community commitment through Corporate Social Responsibility actions, in three specific areas—environmental care, employees’ working conditions, and support to humanitarian causes.
The information is disseminated through institutional social networks and public and private mass communication media from the City of San Francisco (Province of Cordoba).
News story: “La cooperativa "La Virgencita” recibió dos nuevos carros para trabajar” (“La Virgencita" Cooperative Received Two New Carts to Fulfill its Mission). Available at:
News story: “En el Ipet 264 hicieron un carro de materiales reciclados para recolectores de cartón” (IPET 264 Students Built a Cart to Carry Recycled Materials for Cardboard Pickers). Available at:

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8.3 Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services.

8.4 Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, with developed countries taking the lead.

8.6 By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth who are not employed and who do not attend studies or receive training.

12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.

17.17 Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships. Data, monitoring and accountability

A - Full integration of population dynamics into sustainable development with equality and respect for human rights.
American Convention on Human Rights
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

Location

Region
Latin America and the Caribbean
Range of Demographic Size
50,000 to 99,999 inhabitants (small intermediate)

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