2023 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"
17th Edition
Nuevo León: Installation of the first Citizen Advisory Council of the Secretariat of Citizen Participation
Nuevo León is becoming a national benchmark in terms of institutionalized citizen participation and participatory processes for public policy decision-making.
Given the possibility of making a significant transformation for all its inhabitants and the opportunity to open the doors of government to work together for the benefit of all. This practice gives a voice to sectors of the population that for some reason were marginalized, relegated and made invisible for years.
The Council is a response to the call of the collective conscience of the citizens, trying to interpret, from the political position in which we are located, the general feeling, in order to contribute from the government, in the structure of new forms of participation that bring greater welfare to our state.
In the government of Nuevo Leon, we understand that we need those who know, we need the people who struggle, suffer and live political decisions on a daily basis.
Among the 161 candidates who were selected today, you can find citizens from 15 municipalities in the state. Likewise, 88 of them belong to a priority population sector, such as: senior citizens, indigenous people, people with disabilities, youth, people from the LGBTIQ+ community. And an integration that guaranteed the principle of gender parity was achieved.
Among these profiles, there are students, teachers, academics, engineers, lawyers, technicians, activists, domestic workers, all of them -people with human occupations. Occupations that do not border on personal interest, or on obtaining some kind of political gain through their membership in this Council. Because we know that it is the people who have the experience and desire to work with their government.
We need people who struggle, people who personally live the deficiencies of the system in which we are located. We are sure and certain that the only way this Council can be integrated in a fair and transparent manner is through this process.
Through the Citizens' Advisory Council, we hope to begin to mend the broken fabric of a system that previously did not work for the citizenry. We seek to continue weaving a public synergy, since citizen participation is the vital factor of democracy, and hand in hand with the citizenry, the strength of the State is greater.
This is the first Consultative Council that has received comprehensive support and training prior to its installation. It is the first to have an induction process on basic principles of governance and their functions as councilors. This practice is the pioneer in becoming a true laboratory of social innovation.
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