Participation of children and adolescents as subjects of rights in the design of public policies (ARBA0006)
Overview
At-a-Glance
Action Plan: Action plan – Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2021 – 2023
Inception Report Summary: Inception Report – Action plan – Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2021 – 2023
Commitment Start: Oct 2022
Commitment End: Oct 2023
Institutions involved:
- Friendly City Program
- General Direction of Urban Anthropology
- General Direction of Citizen Participation and Closeness
- General Direction of Open Government and Institutional Quality
Primary Policy Area:
Primary Sector:
OGP Value:
- Civic Participation
Inception Report Summary
Verifiable: Yes
Relevance to OGP Values: Yes
The commitment is a new regulation, policy, practice or requirement.
The commitment activities will result in a change of the rules, practices or policies that govern a policy area, public sector and/or relationship between citizens and is binding or institutionalized across government or specific institution(s).
Description
Commitment ID
ARBA0006
Commitment Title
Participation of children and adolescents as subjects of rights in the design of public policies.
Problem
Although the Government of the City of Buenos Aires has participatory instances for children and adolescents, there are difficulties to incorporate their perspective into public policies. The convening tools are not used enough because there is a legal impediment to addressing this population group directly, despite the fact that there is great potential for their participation.
Status quo
Currently, the Government of the City of Buenos Aires works specifically with children and adolescents through the implementation of the Friendly City Program. This means the recognition of this segment of the population as subjects with full rights and places the State as guarantor of their active participation in society. The Program is managed by an intergovernmental commission made up of the Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents, the Ministry of Education, the Secretariat of Urban Development, the General Direction of Decentralization and Citizen Participation, the Ministry of Human Development and Habitat and the Ministry of Culture. Likewise, the General Directorate of Citizen Participation and Closeness works transversally with the government promoting participatory instances, like “BA Costa”, a project for children carried out with the General Directorate of Urban Anthropology.
Action
The objective of the commitment is to strengthen the available information and incorporate the children’s perspective. To this end, a Childhood Index will be published as a tool for designing public policies across the Government and for those interested in studying it. In turn, participatory instances will be implemented with children and adolescents to collect opinions, topics of interest, and their perspectives on government decisions. Finally, these initiatives will be disseminated to make visible and raise awareness about the relevance of participation in this segment.
How will the commitment contribute to solving the public problem described above?
Through the publication of the Childhood Index, the commitment will generate a useful tool for the planning of public policies and for the study of the population group. Likewise, by carrying out participatory instances, it will be possible to place children and adolescents as a group capable of expressing their demands without intermediaries. In this way, the commitment contributes to building a protagonist participation of children and adolescents and active citizenship.
What long-term goal as identified in your Open Government Strategy does this commitment relate to?
The expected impact of this commitment is to generate greater visibility of the issue and broaden perspectives on the inclusion of children and adolescents. In this sense, the commitment also seeks to strengthen collective intelligence by listening to the ideas of this segment still dispersed in the community.
Primary Policy Area
Civic Space, Inclusion
Primary Sector
Cross-sectoral, Public Services (general)
What OGP value is this commitment relevant to?
| Civic Participation | It is relevant for citizen participation because it seeks to incorporate the perspective of children and adolescents in public policies, understanding that this population group can only influence decisions through third parties: adults. In this sense, the commitment incorporates their participation and shapes them as a collective subject capable of expressing their demands. |