Brazil
Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro
2018/2020
15th.
Special Mention
The Sustainable Development and Climate Action Plan, coordinated by the Planning Office of the Undersecretariat for Planning and Monitoring Results, was created after listening to cariocas about their hopes, priorities and aspirations for the future of the city. More than 35 thousand people participated directly in the dialogues for the future of the city in the next 30 years.
"Through a methodology that sought more than raise problems and point solutions, we tried to make the cariocas see that their small actions are important and that without their involvement the city hall is not able to achieve ambitious goals. Throughout the process, we reached more than 35,000 direct contributions and raised more than 800 actions already carried out in the territories.
The process was also educational, to the extent that it contributed to awakening in citizens individual responsibility in the improvement of the city. The methodology allowed us to raise actions that could be done individually and together, strengthening the power and reach of local non-governmental partnerships, and the process of collective construction of the city.
From these processes, it was possible to incorporate new actions, projects and goals into the Plan to meet the specific wishes of the population.
More than 65% of the goals and actions adopted in the Plan are derived from the opinions and wishes of the participants, making clear the Municipality's commitment to have a plan with effective citizen collaboration.
All the actions were coordinated by the Planning Office, which was responsible for the articulation with various partners, internal and external institutions. Each activity relied on different and specific partners, from planning, implementation, to the systematization of results. These partnerships were fundamental for the success and quality of the process.
In 2019, through a partnership with UN-Habitat, training workshops were held, involving 1300 people, among municipal technicians and partner institutions. One of these workshops, for example, made for municipal professionals, held with Multirio's support, promoted strong synergy of objectives and enhanced the partnership with education.
Also in 2019, face-to-face meetings were held in schools. These events were supported by UN-Habitat (New Urban Agenda - SDGs) and the C40 network (Climate Agenda) in the preparation of contents, reports, and propositional dynamics. The Education Secretariat supported it with its spaces and invitations. These meetings generated more than 1600 collaborations.
Still in November, together with UFRJ and the Education Network, through drawings and texts, we involved more than 25 thousand children. The works were analyzed by the UFRJ team.
The results of all the actions were grouped, and produced a total of more than 35 thousand collaborations analyzed by the Planning Office team."
Through polls on the participa.rio platform, cariocas left their contributions. Face-to-face activities were fundamental for the literal dialogue with the population. The projects included not only improvements for the city's infrastructure, but for the people who live there. In these activities, it was possible to deepen understandings, review definitions pointing to specific needs, engage and involve participants, stimulate citizenship and effectiveness in policies and planning. This decentralisation of the process sought to share responsibilities, share difficulties and together find strategies and new paths for an increasingly better city.
Understanding the challenge of reaching different profiles in such a large and multifaceted city, different strategies were created: training workshops; an online platform with different participation surveys and specific content for children and young people; face-to-face meetings with innovative dynamics; projects with the municipal education network from the children's point of view. All this was only possible thanks to key partnerships, such as UN-Habitat, C40 network, UFRJ, Municipal Secretariat of Education and MultiRio.
Launched in 2018, the participa.rio platform was an important tool for access and transparency of actions. Cariocas dived into the waves of participation, involving more than 2,500 contributions in the 04 stages open to the public.
The training workshops held with UN-Habitat in 2019 addressing Open Government themes involved more than 1300 municipal technicians and from partner institutions, representing an important driver of the participation process, since the technicians were trained and also contributed with proposals for the Plan. In a specific workshop for the municipal education network, more than a thousand employees participated at the same time, promoting a great synergy of objectives, strengthening the fundamental partnership with education. During this workshop, a competition was launched to name the character created to be "the children's friend", seeking to disseminate information on sustainable development. This contest has boosted many school activities. The involvement of students affected their families, generating more than 5,000 votes on the Platform, electing Susteco as the name of the character.
The SDP reached the schools intertwined with the activities of dissemination of the SDGs. From then on, parents, staff, local representatives and students were together in understanding and valuing the sustainable development of the city.
Also in 2019, face-to-face meetings were held involving institutions, leaders, civil society, children, youth, adults and the elderly, allowing this plan to be democratically built with popular engagement. And as a final moment, there was the direct involvement of children in the proposition of actions for the city, from the D-Day - Affective Mapping, held on November 8.
The digital platform plays an important role in this process, since it is there that all the results achieved are made available and it will be through it that the cariocas will be able to follow the implementation of the Plan.
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''The Sustainable Development and Climate Action Plan is a process that builds on previous experience and aims to promote cit- izen commitment and ownership of environmental issues. It pays special attention to the inclusion of the children's perspective, and takes advantage of the school structure to favour the territoriality of the process. Although online and face-to-face actions are combined, the digital platform has been key to broadening participation. It is worth noting that more than 35,000 people have participated so far. The project is presented in a clear and detailed manner''
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