2023 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"
17th Edition
Mar del Plata, General Pueyrredon District Road Safety Advisory Commission (CASV).
Towards the participatory construction of a culture of urban mobility based on care and respect for life, within the General Pueyrredon District and its region, Argentina.
“Road safety is everyone's responsibility, but it starts with me”.
Coordinated by the Undersecretariat for Urban Mobility, the Road Safety Advisory Commission (CASV) has managed to become a true meeting space and collective construction, in the city of Mar del Plata, General Pueyrredon District, Argentina.
The CASV is understood and felt by its members, as an active tribute to all those stories that have been truncated due to road accidents, so that no more hugs are left without giving.
The honesty of the relatives of victims (who have known how to turn pain into action), the generosity of those who are part of professional or academic institutions (who contribute their knowledge in an empathetic and democratic way), the drive of those who participate from the private sector (mainly from insurance producing companies) and the commitment of those who represent the State and local government (who invest resources without tainting them with partisan ideologies), have resulted in a true community of people committed to better mobility and coexistence environments, that transcending the sectoral, and even the simple denunciation, works under the conviction that reality only changes from the sum of wills and networking.
The CASV was established in 2020. Its work is based on ordinances 8797/92 and 24318/19. As a mixed body, it is coordinated by the Undersecretariat for Urban Mobility and made up of nearly 50 public, private and third sector organizations. Since 2022, it has been part of the Municipal Road Safety Plan, managing citizen involvement and participation.
He has known how to resiliently overcome various unforeseen events, during 2020 he has worked remotely due to the covid-19 pandemic. This has not prevented the regularity of its work, exceeding 80 meetings in April 2023.
Understanding road safety as a dynamic problem that exceeds jurisdictional limits, the Commission has opened its operation in regional plenary meetings, with the aim of establishing a work group in the southeast of the Province of Buenos Aires, which already has the participation of 7 districts.
Among other actions, the generation of dissemination pieces and advisory documents for the local executive and legislative powers, participation in events with strong roots in the city such as Salsa Day or the Barrileteada for the Day of the Road Victims.
Perhaps it is the Days I take care of myself and I take care of you, which summarize the feelings and thoughts of the CASV. Working jointly with municipal offices and citizen groups, the game is applied as a strategy for the construction of a civic culture of respect and coexistence. Today, based on an itinerant road circuit, more than 850 boys and girls have been reached and, through a public-private initiative (in which AMPAS and the Municipality participated), the enhancement and reconstruction of of the City of Road Coexistence in the Municipal Garden No.1.
https://www.mardelplata.gob.ar/movilidadurbana/seguridadvial/casv
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