2022 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"

In its origins, the strategy sought to strengthen community action through the involvement of youth actors who were trained under the "Young Weavers of Society" program, through a pedagogical model based on Participatory Planning and Citizen Culture that adopted the OSP as a means to strengthen the processes of community organization in spaces of democratic deliberation and construction of a sense of belonging.

The model evolved and is currently presented as an articulating strategy for the various actions, actors and wills in the territories of the entire city in order to connect different participation tools within an "ecosystem" of participatory democracy and incident citizen participation.

The methodology ensures the promotion of incident citizen participation through the formulation of projects, co-creation exercises, execution and monitoring of minor infrastructure works, provision of furniture for public space and social-environmental development works, among others. that respond to the needs and care of the community and the territories. Actions that allow the community fabric to be strengthened while neighborhoods are conserved and greened, safety is improved, and trust and coexistence are generated among citizens and between them and institutions.

Based on a massive, personalized dissemination strategy, with a territorial approach that is carried out virtually and/or in person, support and advice on feasibility and viability criteria is guaranteed; disposing of diverse channels of diffusion and attention to the citizen through technologies of the information and the Informative System of the IDPAC.

During the three moments or phases explained above, the methodology incorporates (i) dialogue sessions that allow for co-creation exercises and citizen support, (ii) collective planning and execution, (iii) citizen oversight and (iv) sustainability of works; the entire process with an incident citizen participation approach from start to finish and with an educational balance for the community. In addition, it is articulated with the IDPAC model of strengthening community and social organizations that participate in the process, allowing them access to tools and instruments to increase their organizational capacities.

Based on the experience obtained with the implementation of the OSP methodology in the territories, spaces have been created for the public evaluation of the process in each of its phases and in the days of delivery of the works that provide transparency to the execution of public resources and strengthens the trust of citizens in social and community organizations.

Likewise, at the time of liquidating each of the solidarity agreements entered into with the organizations for the execution of the works, a financial and legal verification of compliance with the agreed conditions is carried out in coordination with the auditing contracted by IDPAC.

More information:

http://www.participacionbogota.gov.co (External link)

https://www.participacionbogota.gov.co/obras-con-saldo-pedagogico (External link) 

Obras con Saldo Pedagógico: Bogotá, el Mejor Hogar (External link)