Civic Education: teach citizens how the administrations and its process work to promote social participation in decision-making. (BROSC0002)

Commitment ID

BROSC0002

Commitment Title

Promoted a new kind of Civic Education, where its purpose is to teach our citizens how the administrations and its process work, once that is done, we will be able to include social participation at the decision-making

Problem

This commitment intends to be a part of the citizen education, especially social and political themes, due to the fragile or barely existence of political educational sector, consequently, citizens encounter a lot of difficulties when comes to effective social participation. The commitment co-creation process shows that there isn't a political educational platform to bureaucrats nor to citizens, also, Osasco doesn't use its public spaces to educational activities or any kind that stimulates citizen participation, like partnerships with universities or non-governmental organizations.

Status quo

Political education doesn’t exist nowadays in the city, so we aren’t able to measure this kind of activity. We hope, once the commitment has been made, that we are capable of monitoring and evaluating our action and its efects.

Action

The commitment seeks to create a project that institutes permanent citizen education for bureaucrats and public in general to make public policy more accessible and understandable, guiding the decision by public demands, also, once these stakeholders have this kind of instruments, they will be able to simplify process at the administration and sharing transparency culture. As public point of view, this kind of commitment represents opening space for them be a part of the process, by making flexible hour and location to public participate. Eventually, we expect the administration to open spaces where people could share their knowledge and information about public themes, approximating management and society.

How will the commitment contribute to solving the public problem described above?

As for the products, the expectation is that the implementation of the commitment will enable the creation and execution of citizen education projects throughout the city, with the population and municipal employees as the target audience. In terms of results, it is expected that the implementation of the commitment will inaugurate a citizen education policy, in order to train citizens and bureaucrats in topics that directly dialogue with citizenship, human rights, transparency and participation of the population in municipal public management, mainly with regard to understanding how public administration works.

What long-term goal as identified in your Open Government Strategy does this commitment relate to?

This commitment is intended to transform Osasco into a plural and more democratic city, with solid and strengthened institutions that can turn the economic development into social development to ensure the human rights and the respect for diversity. Since education is the key for a civil society that knowsits rights and duties and this way can be, in fact, elaborating the public policies for the urban and social development. Therefore, citizen education projects can put foward and engage the citizens in the process of understanding and development of the Osasco's city.

Primary Policy Area

Governance

Primary Sector

Education

What OGP value is this commitment relevant to?