2025 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"

19th Edition

Phase 4 of 8

Results open vote 28/03/2025 - 31/03/2025

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Río Cuarto: Virtuous Articulations of Actors Toward Inclusive Policies in an Intermediate City in Argentina

Official proposal

07/02/2025 11:05

Accepted

This practice has been implemented since 2020 by the government of the city of Río Cuarto in collaboration with the Cono Sur Argentina Exchange and Services Center (CISCSA), an NGO based in Córdoba (Argentina) with extensive experience in innovative feminist agenda topics, striving for more egalitarian societies and vital, violence-free cities, where all people can fully access their right to the city.

The goal of the practice is to expand the rights of women and diverse groups to the city, through multi-actor articulations, using innovative tools that are built in common, for the development of egalitarian territories. The practice aims to develop a process of knowledge-building using participatory tools that systematize quantitative, qualitative, reliable, accessible, and contextualized information to address the territorial inequalities that women and diverse groups experience in the city of Río Cuarto. The process followed these action lines:

1.Participatory production of information about the territory, which includes: Maps of municipal policies, maps of women’s and diverse groups’ organizations, collective mapping, georeferenced cartographies

2.Training cycles with different actors: Workshops for women’s organizations, local government officials and technicians, civil society organizations, and communications on the framework of women’s rights to the city.

3. Creation of a local multi-actor table for coordination and participation in the design of policies to create more egalitarian territories.

4.Participatory construction of innovative tools, with unprecedented methodologies, to disseminate the produced materials: Women’s Map, Cartographies, Urban Indicators, and the Cities, Territories, and Gender Observatory.

The innovation in this practice lies in generating data with a participatory approach for direct influence on public policy design, placing the voices of women and diverse groups at the center of multi-actor articulation spaces, using novel methodologies.

It has been key in strengthening the participation of women’s organizations and diverse groups in public policy design and their coordination with the local government.