2023 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"
17th Edition
Nomination presented by the Dutch Institute for Multiparty Democracy, in Yumbo in alliance with Fundación Corona and Fundación Smurfit Kappa. In Buenaventura in alliance with Fundación Corona, and the Active Alliance Buenaventura.
The Territorial Dialogue Initiative (IDT) is a multi-stakeholder dialogue methodology whose objective is to generate spaces for collaborative construction to create a public policy proposal for a local development challenge.
The IDT Yumbo and Buenaventura worked on a challenge prioritized by the citizens. Causes were identified and solutions proposed, creating a policy prototype. Through advocacy spaces, the prototype was presented to the local and regional government in order to incorporate the proposal into municipal policies.
The IDT in Yumbo and Buenaventura emerges as a methodology that helps to solve the lack of citizen participation and the legitimacy gap of public decisions regarding a development challenge in the municipality for two reasons: 1) it qualifies the proposals of the citizens to through the collaboratively built public policy prototype, and 2) generates advocacy spaces with decision makers so that these solutions can be incorporated.
In this framework, the IDT is an innovative and tested methodology that contributes to the construction of solutions, between different social, public and business actors with respect to a topic of local development. In the case of Yumbo and Buenaventura, the prioritized agenda was security, specifically, the affectation of the youth population by the dynamics of violence in the territories, in particular, homicides.
Having said the above, it is evident that security is a local challenge that cannot be solved through conventional methods. It requires multi-stakeholder collaborative work: between public and private stakeholders and civil society. Conventional methods should be dispensed with and methodologies that promote democratic innovation should be incorporated.
Through the principles of design thinking, creative problem solving (CPS) and agility, the IDT develops three phases to produce a public policy proposal document that is used to influence decision makers.
Design Phase: participants are divided into groups to work on the diagnosis of the problem (identification of causes and consequences), the proposal of alternative solutions and the prototyping of alternative solutions with high viability, rapid implementation and high impact.
Mentoring phase: from the prototype built collectively, the public policy proposal document is created that responds to the selected problem, as well as the advocacy strategy to achieve the necessary support for its implementation.
Mobilization phase: based on the advocacy plan, the participants and the facilitating team meet with decision makers and influencers, in order to present the public policy proposal and add their support for implementation.
As a final result in Yumbo, the Youth Public Policy, approved by the Municipal Council, took into account some of the actions created by the citizens and projected in the draft of the IDT policy. On the other hand, with respect to Buenaventura, the public policy draft is being presented to different actors in the territory for their information, with the aim that the District Development Plan takes into account some of these actions.
This repository of the OECD Observatory for Innovation in the Public Sector details the initiative, recognized this year on trends in public innovation by the OECD: https://oecd-opsi.org/innovations/territorial-dialogue-initiative-idt-yumbo/
In this Corona Foundation blog, the Territorial Dialogue Initiative is described more, as an initiative that bets on democratic innovation and that has brought citizens closer with public participation: https://www.fundacioncorona.org/es/biblioteca/blog/iniciativas-que-le-apuestan-la-innovacion-democratica-y-que-han-acercado-los
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