2023 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"
17th Edition
Jalisco: Caravan "We want to listen to you, 2022": Governance Mechanism for the Participatory Budget Designation
In Mexico, citizen participation is recognized as a human right and the State of Jalisco was a pioneer in raising this issue to a state secretary, establishing from this administration (2018-2024) the Secretary of Planning and Citizen Participation, the first of its kind. in the country, framing it in the Law of Participatory Planning, the Law of the System of Citizen and Popular Participation for Governance -which includes 16 mechanisms of citizen participation- and the State Plan of Governance and Development 2018-2024 vision 2030 with the Transversal Theme Governance for development.
The “We Want to Listen to You” Caravan becomes a practical materialization of these normative instruments, showing that the best way to make public decisions is through governance exercises.
This project was a new experience in Jalisco, it took more than a year to plan and its origins occur during the COVID19 pandemic, aligned with the "Love You At Home" strategy (year 2020), later "Time to Love Us" (year 2021 to date) as the action in the territory to address mental health. In this context, the social determinants of health (DSH) were taken as a basis,
The methodology was based on Research-Action-Participation (IAP) processes, Popular Education and participatory playful methodologies through the "Caravan" format: a group of people travel to the same destination to accompany, support and achieve the objective, that is a practice of collaboration and coordination towards a common goal; First, activating an interactive Fair in a public space in order to bring information, activities and services closer to the citizenry and motivate participation in the Popular Assembly, followed by the Popular Assembly, to determine the how, where and who to achieve the goals. 6 established objectives, after which, virtual workshops for prioritization and participatory project design were developed, and finally participatory monitoring and implementation.
The selection of municipalities was based on an inter-institutional analysis of needs and priority municipalities with diversity and a high degree of inequality, based on data from the Atlas of Mental Health, Drought Risk, Diagnosis of needs identified by dependencies, Degree of Marginalization and Multidimensional Poverty, selecting 11 municipalities, from the different regions of the state.
Around 2,800 people participated in the design process of 43 projects from the Assembly and virtual workshops and around 338,926 as beneficiaries of the project actions.
The impact achieved went beyond the proposed thematic objectives, since there was a spillover in other ways:
- Building skills for intersectoral collaboration
- Formation of technical skills for design and participatory implementation of projects.
- Community cohesion by generating meeting spaces
- Activation and appropriation of public spaces
- Participation of priority groups
- I employ workshop facilitators, sports instructors, health personnel and artisans
In the end, all of the above results in the strengthening of a democratic culture of government openness and citizen participation for the generation of spaces for peace, comprehensive health, and citizen security.
Video about the Caravan We want to hear from you: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=5187232094673464
https://participa.jalisco.gob.mx/
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