21st OIDP Award Application Form

  • Contact details
  • Category in which you want to apply the practice
  • Type of territory
  • Practice information
  • Temporality of the practice
  • Type of process
  • Territorial area
  • Thematic area
  • Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) associated with the practice
  • Context
  • Precedents
  • Objectives, design, and scope
  • Methodology
  • Communication, community outreach, and awareness-raising
  • Innovation
  • Inclusion and equity
  • Evaluation, accountability and transparency
  • Follow-up, sustainability and adaptability
  • Impacts and results
  • Collaboration and articulation
  • Practice overview
  • Images
  • Annex
  • Review and submit

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Contact details

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Category in which you want to apply the practice

Select only one category corresponding to the most relevant topic of your practice.

A) Building more democratic and peaceful communities

Any action, public policy, or practice that seeks to improve democracy, guarantee human rights, generate trust among citizens, and build peace through civic education, open government, transparency, and renewal of institutions.

B) Urban management and public space

Any participatory, deliberative and co-creative action on public space and urban or territorial development.

C) Gender and care

Any policy to promote gender equality, the inclusion of specific groups commonly neglected (children, young people, older adults, people with disabilities, diverse gender identities...), and ensuring public service provision to all.

D) Ecological Transition and Environment

Any participatory, deliberative, or co-creative action to protect the environment and face the climate emergency, guaranteeing social justice...

E) Civic Tech

Participation, deliberation, or co-creation through digital platforms, virtual processes, and Artificial Intelligence.

Type of territory

Select the type of territory according to the size of your population.

A) Towns, small cities, rural areas up to 50,000 inhabitants

B) Cities between 50,000 and 250,000 inhabitants

C) Cities between 250,000 and 1,000,000 inhabitants

D) Large cities or urban areas of more than 1,000,000 inhabitants

E) Supralocal, regional, provincial governments...

Practice information

max. 100 characters
Number of inhabitants of the city or territory where the practice has been implemented
Name of the municipality, department, government, institution leading the candidate practice. Example: City of New York, Municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Municipal Secretariat of Citizen Participation of the City of Lipa
eg: https://oidp.net/en/

Social media networks of the practice

If operational, indicate "ongoing"
Indicate the budget of the practice and/or the resources mobilized for its development and implementation

Temporality of the practice

Select the temporality corresponding to your practice

Practices with less than 5 years of implementation

Practices with more than 5 years of implementation

When did your practice start?

Describe if your practice changed the name, focus, or main driving actors during its entire life, and why this was eventually necessary.
(Maximum 750 characters)

How have the methodology, the outcome, and the main impacts been changing incrementally during the life of this practice?
(Maximum 750 characters)

Which changes were brought by the need to extend or modify the funding schemes, and how did the diversification of funding help to maintain the continuity and resilience of that practice?
(Maximum 750 characters)

In case the practice you describe is not active anymore, but has existed for at least 5 years, can you expose what legacy it has left in the territory, and how other iniciatives are benefiting from that practice?
(Maximum 1000 characters)

Type of process

Select the type of democratic mechanism/exercise corresponding to your practice.

Maximum 4 options

Participatory budgeting

Participatory planning

Workshop / meeting for diagnosis or monitoring

Public hearing / forum

Poll / referendum

Citizen assembly / Citizen jury / Deliberation space
/ (selected by sortition)

Standing council
(permanent committee formed by the neighbours of a defined territory or a specific demographic group)

E-government / Open government / Digital platforms

Citizen initiative

Other

Territorial area

Select the territorial level where the practice has been implemented.

Regional

Local

District

Neighbourhood

Thematic area

Select the main thematic area corresponding to your practice. You can select up to 5 options the most relevant to your practice

Maximum 5 options

Governance, decentralisation, and legal norms

Education (schools, high schools, universities)

Training & learning (local leaders, civic education)

Mobility

Urban management (public space, streets, urbanism)

Health & social services

Safety, human rights & peace building

Environment & ecological transition

Food security

Social movements (grassroots, civic associations & NGOs)

Culture

Housing

Local development, finances & job creation

Social inclusion, gender & diversity

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) associated with the practice

Select the SDG to which the practice contributes, you can select more than 1 and a maximum of 3

Maximum 3 options

SDG 1 - End poverty in all its forms everywhere

SDG 2 - End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

SDG 3 - Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

SDG 4 - Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

SDG 5 - Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

SDG 6 - Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

SDG 7 - Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

SDG 8 - Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

SDG 9 - Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

SDG 10 - Reduce inequality within and among countries

SDG 11 - Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

SDG 12 - Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

SDG 13 - Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

SDG 14 - Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

SDG 15 - Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

SDG 16 - Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

SDG 17 - Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Context

In a maximum of 1500 characters, present the cultural, geographical, historical, institutional, and socioeconomic context of the territory in which the practice has been implemented.

We suggest you start with a sentence such as: "[Name of your territory] is…"

Precedents

In a maximum of 1500 characters, explain the origins of your practice. If it is a new practice, share the history of participation in your territory. If it is an innovation of an existing practice, share the origins.

We suggest you start with a sentence such as "[Name of your practice] emerged..."

Objectives, design, and scope

In a maximum of 500 characters, explain the main objective of your practice and the challenge/needs it addresses in relation to the category in which you have applied and the theme you have selected. Explain also the specific objectives and sub-themes, the territorial scope, and the main target groups/beneficiaries.

Methodology

In a maximum of 2000 characters, describe the methodology of the practice, explaining each phase and key aspect of its implementation: territorial division, timetable, facilitation of the process, stakeholders involved, and resources used. We recommend explaining your methodology chronologically, throughout time.

We suggest you start with a sentence such as "The practice started in [Starting year] with a [Starting activity]".

Communication, community outreach, and awareness-raising

In a maximum of 1000 characters, explain the strategy and communication channels used in your practice to engage the population, encourage participation, and keep participants informed during and after the process.

We suggest you start your sentence with the following phrase "The communication strategy of the practice consisted of..."

Innovation

In a maximum of 1000 characters, explain what you consider to be the most innovative aspect of the practice. These could be innovations in methodology or new forms of participation within the territory.

We suggest you start your sentence with a phrase such as "The innovation in the practice consists of...".

Inclusion and equity

In a maximum of 1000 characters, explain who the specific groups targeted by the practice, why it was important to include them, and through which concrete participatory processes or mechanisms they were included. When answering, think about social cohesion, gender, or disability if applicable.

We suggest you start your sentence with the following phrase: "[Specific group/s] were included because on [Name of your territory]..."

Evaluation, accountability and transparency

In a maximum of 1000 characters, explain the evaluation mechanisms of your practice or frameworks for assessing its impact, and, if applicable, explain how citizens have been involved in this phase. If relevant, explain how this was used to improve future iterations. Explain if there were clear accountability and transparency mechanisms in how the practice was funded, managed, or evaluated.

We suggest starting with a sentence such as: "The practice was evaluated through [name of the evaluation mechanisms]".

Follow-up, sustainability, and adaptability

In a maximum of 1000 characters, explain how the practice was followed up after implementation and how/if continuity was ensured over time. Describe the main monitoring methods, how challenges were addressed, and how feedback or lessons learned were integrated to improve the practice and maintain alignment with its objectives. If long-term sustainability was not achieved, briefly explain why. Finally, explain whether and how the practice can adapt to changing circumstances

We suggest you start with a sentence such as “The follow-up and sustainability of the practice were ensured through...” or “The follow-up and sustainability of the practice could not be ensured due to...”

Impacts and results

In a maximum of 1500 characters, explain the impacts and results of your practice on the communities and the stakeholders involved. Share how many people have benefited, what have been the impacts on public policies, on the functioning of your administration, and clarify if the implementation contributed to the institutionalization or permanence of participatory democracy in your territory.

We suggest you start with a sentence like the following: "Through the practice, we have achieved..."

Collaboration and articulation

In a maximum of 1000 characters, explain the partnerships and stakeholder ecosystem involved, how responsibilities were shared and coordinated, and how the practice connects with other participatory mechanisms or cross-cutting policies in your territory.

Practice overview

In a minimum of 1000 characters and a maximum of 2500 characters, provide a summary of your practice. We suggest that you summarise the information already provided in the previous boxes and emphasise the most important elements of your practice.

This summary will be published on our online platform ParticipateOIDP, together with the rest of the applications, for the open voting and the publication of the OIDP Award. Once again, we encourage you to bear in mind that this summary will be read by people who are probably learning about your practice and the context of your territory for the first time.

We suggest you start with a sentence like: “[Name of the practice] consisted/helped/involved…”

Images

Please attach at least two images with a minimum size of 2,500 pixels and a resolution of 300 PPI (pixels per inch) to illustrate your practice.
These images will be used to showcase your practice on the ParticipateOIDP platform and in the award publication. Bear in mind that these images should be copyright free and that you grant usage rights to OIDP/UCLG for its learning materials.

Also, please name the image files using the name of your territory (e.g., “Barcelona_Community_Garden.jpg”)

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Annex

We recommend that you provide any additional resources to complement your application. You may attach a maximum of 5 PDFs, such as presentations, news releases, and any other documents supporting your practice.

If you wish to share a video (maximum of one), you can send them via WeTransfer to oidp@uclg.org. Please ensure that these videos are copyright-free, by submitting them, you grant usage rights to OIDP/UCLG for inclusion in learning materials.

Also, please name the video and PDF files using the name of your territory (e.g., “Barcelona_Community_Garden.pdf” or “Barcelona_Community_Garden.mp4”).

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