Ensure greater accessibility in participating in public decisions (ES0075)

What is the problem/need that is desired to resolve with the commitment? The lack of integration of people with disabilities or reading difficulties in the processes of citizen participation and design of public policies.

Objectives of the commitment  Involving people with disabilities or reading difficulties in citizen participation workshops in which they address laws and other policies and public services.  Combine the open government paradigm (participation and transparency) with Easy Reading (translation of complex texts through pictograms) to achieve accessible public services.  Build a much more empathetic, close and simple Administration for everyone.

Brief description of the commitment Incorporation of new sensitivities in the processes of citizen participation, favouring the co‐creation of public policies, making people with disabilities or reading difficulties the protagonists, supported by the Easy Reading methodology, and whose ultimate objective is to generate better services and public policies that are universally accessible.

How does the commitment contribute to solve the problem or cover the need? People with disabilities are citizens with full rights and their involvement in the participation processes will also make visible their needs and concerns. It is about achieving an open and simple administration with accessible public services, not just for people with disabilities, but also for children and elderly people who do not speak the language or have reading difficulties, in short, for the entire citizenship.

Why is the commitment relevant with respect to the values of Open Government? It promotes, strengthens and improves the quality of participation in the public management, allowing the citizenship to participate in making public decisions with the objective of achieving better results and better democratic quality It involves the inclusion of a group that until now has been overlooked in the processes of participation and transparency in public management. It delves deeper into transparency, open data and accountability of Public Administrations through carrying out actions aimed at its improvement and the evaluation of the results of the plans and programmes The adaptation of new content to easy reading facilitates the transparency of public policies and its accountability among the citizenship. It contributes to building a system of public integrity, strengthening the ethical values and mechanisms to bolster the integrity of the public institutions and reinforce the trust of the citizenship The trust of the citizenship in the institutions will be reinforced because the explanation of the action of governing will be more accessible and by incorporating people with disabilities into the processes of citizen participation. It raises awareness among society and civil servants about the values of Open Government, contributing to the fulfilment of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda in order to advance towards a just, peaceful and inclusive society By totally regularising people with disabilities in the processes of creating public policies and by making them live alongside civil servants in various workshops. 177

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Activities of the commitment Start date End date Design of the programme Start 31/12/2020 Adaptation of texts to easy reading Start 30/09/2024 Carrying out a pilot project for presentation 17/02/2020 17/02/2020 Adaptation to easy reading/facilitated reading, 7 classic books of the project “https://librosqueunen.org/” 01/06/2020 30/06/2020 Holding Easy Government workshops 01/01/2021 30/09/2024