2024 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"
18th Edition
Mogi das Cruzes: Lidera Mogi- Citizen training
In January 2021, social participation was established as a principle of the new municipal administration, led by Mayor Caio Cunha. With the mission of building a city with and for the people, Mogi das Cruzes' social participation policy was born in the Department of Planning and Strategic Management: Participa Mogi.
Faced with the participatory processes of building the city, we identified a lack of tools and knowledge to improve the processes of building with the population. Guided by the perspective of social control as an instrument for strengthening democracy and citizenship, Participa Mogi's mission is to go beyond a space for listening, but rather for building a city with and for the people. With this in mind, the development of citizenship is one of the pillars of action in the development of social participation policy.
In order to contribute to the creation of an increasingly active civil society that knows and exercises its rights and duties as a citizen in the development of the city in which it lives, we implemented the first citizenship training programme in the city of Mogi das Cruzes: Lidera Mogi.
Lidera was created with the aim of training citizens with more resources to take an increasingly active role in the city. With a programme of eight 2-hour meetings, we bring the executive branch closer to civil society with content that covers the guiding principles of citizenship, democracy and the practical workings of public administration. We encourage and empower citizens to take a leading role in transforming their territory. In addition to the training content, Lidera Mogi is initiating the formation of a network of community leaders who may be taking the first step towards developing more and more as citizens who actively build their cities with public authorities.
In the one year of the citizens' training programme, we have held 42 hours of courses in two classes, which have trained 40 people with content to develop their work in civil society. The training as a whole was evaluated by the participants with an average score of 4.87 on a scale of 1 to 5, with the course content rated as excellent by 70% of the participants. Through the evaluation tools via forms and listening processes after the end of the training, 100% of the participants said they would recommend the course to other people.
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