2023 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"

17th Edition

Phase 6 of 7

Publication Preparation 18/09/2023 - 06/11/2023

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Pasto: Implementation of leadership seedlings in Boys, Girls and Adolescents from Rural Educational Institutions and community actions.

Official proposal

07/06/2023 11:29

This initiative arises with the purpose of sensitizing children and youth in the different roles of community participation, leading this training process on issues of Community Action Boards, Participatory Democracy, Citizen Participation Mechanisms, Citizen Competences, Youth Empowerment, Rights Human Rights, Municipal Youth Council and themes with a gender focus. The implementation of the leadership seedbeds is a goal outlined in the Development Plan of the Municipality of Pasto, oriented by the Community Development Secretariat and the Sub-Secretary for Citizen Participation of the Municipal Mayor's Office of Pasto in alliance with the Administrative Directorate of Youth, Secretary Department of Education of the Mayor's Office of Pasto, entities such as the Ombudsman's Office and the UN Agency for Refugees - UNHCR, and the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Pasto headquarters, who were key players in making this pedagogical process sustainable and comprehensive in the training offered.

This process was carried out at the San Francisco de Asís Municipal Educational Institution of the Santa Bárbara Township and the La Victoria Municipal Educational Institution of the Catambuco Township, with 70 students who were certified for a total number of 80 hours in the diploma course called "Seedbed in human rights with a community approach and local integration”, for their mandatory social service.

We worked with the playful pedagogical methodology, alternating theoretical and practical spaces, generating significant learning and impact on students from rural institutions, which was achieved from the following modules:

1. Human Rights

2. Community Action

3. Community Integration

4. Youth Leadership

5. Citizen Competences

The promotion of these initiatives that strengthen the community mission through social leadership in sectors that have been marginalized through the armed conflict in rural areas such as the townships of Catambuco and Santa Bárbara, as well as the planning process has allowed the traceability of empowerment. in these contexts through the generation of installed capacities from the oldest to the youngest population.

This could be evidenced through the Community Action Boards of these territories in the new leadership of Boys, Girls and Adolescents in issues of community incidence, since the boys showed interest in the accompaniment carried out in the assemblies for the election of the new Board of Communal Action reflecting in the registration in the book of affiliates of those over 14 years of age as the law refers. They also participated in the assemblies where decision-making is important for land planning; evidencing how these new learnings and leaderships promote generational change in the context of new participatory scenarios.

These community actions from the work mingas (voluntary community work) create a participatory approach from the bases of social organizations, generating harmonious spaces and community well-being, to recover and beautify the public spaces of different sectors.

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