In Nuevo León, girls, boys and adolescents participate to improve our environment. (MXNLE0002)
Overview
At-a-Glance
Action Plan: Action plan – Nuevo Leon (State), Mexico, 2022 – 2024
Inception Report: Inception Report – Action plan – Nuevo Leon (State), Mexico, 2022 – 2024
Commitment Start: Jan 2023
Commitment End: Jun 2024
Institutions involved:
- Secretariat of Citizen Participation
- Secretariat of Citizen Participation
- Secretariat of Education
- Executive Secretariat of the State System for the Protection of the Rights of Girls, Boys and Adolescents (SESIPINNA for its Spanish acronym)
- Vía Educación
- PAZ ES
- Accountability Lab México
- Citizen Representation
- Asociación de Vecinos de Chepevera y Lomas
- Girls, boys and adolescents of Nuevo León
Primary Policy Area:
Primary Sector:
OGP Value:
- Access to information
- Civic Participation
- Public Accountability
- Technology and Innovation for Transparency and Accountability
Inception Report Summary
Verifiable: Yes
Relevance to OGP Values: Yes
The commitment is a continuation of ongoing practice in line with existing legislation, policies or requirements.
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).
To view the detailed final assessment of this commitment read the End of Commitment Report
Description
Commitment ID
MXNLE0002
Commitment Title
In Nuevo León, girls, boys and adolescents participate to improve our environment.
Problem
Girls, boys, and adolescents in Nuevo León do not have access to spaces that allow them to be represented and to participate, individually or collectively, in the decision-making process and the solution of public problems in their local environment, such as schools. Despite the recognition of participation as a fundamental part of true democracy, there are still difficulties for different sectors of the population to exercise it or to find the appropriate channels that allow them to participate and influence the decision-making process. Furthermore, girls, boys, and adolescents are a vulnerable group of the population since governmental structures often do not consider their inclusion in the definition of public policies and in the decision-making process. Additionally, in their educational formation, there are no spaces for education in participatory values that would allow them to become active and participating citizens in the future. Due to this deficit, it is crucial to establish adequate spaces and approaches to train girls, boys, and adolescents to participate and to learn the duties and responsibilities that come hand in hand with their rights; always looking at age-appropriateness and with a gender perspective.
Status quo
Despite the historical gap that exists regarding the promotion of the participation of girls, boys, and adolescents, the current administration has implemented a variety of exercises that promote the participation of girls, boys, and adolescents, such as the Child and Adolescent Consultation process and the Child and Adolescent Participation Forum. Through these spaces, the opinions of the population between 3 and 17 years old were considered for the creation of the State Development Plan 2022-2027. This unprecedented exercise in Mexico allowed children and adolescents of NL to have a space where they could be heard and be able to influence state public policies. In addition to these exercises, in 2022 the Secretariat of Citizen Participation launched the pilot program of "School Participatory Projects". With a budget of 2 million pesos, a group of 13 schools selected by the Secretariat of Education received an amount of 150 thousand pesos each. Through this participatory tool, the State seeks that girls, boys, and adolescents through training and facilitation, propose what kind of improvements they want for their schools using this resource, and then decide together through a vote organized by the State Electoral and Citizen Participation Institute (formerly the State Electoral Commission). Through this pilot program, more than 5,000 children and adolescents took part in this co-creation exercise.
Action
The core action of the commitment seeks that the Secretariat of Citizen Participation, the Secretariat of Education, and the State System for the Protection of Children and Adolescents of the State of Nuevo Leon collaborate and commit to providing physical and digital spaces that allow the training, promotion, encouragement, promotion, dissemination, and implementation of participatory processes of children and adolescents in a safe, inclusive and active listening environment that result in the effective participation of children and adolescents for the improvement of their immediate context.
How will the commitment contribute to solving the public problem described above?
By providing spaces for participation, commitments have to be made and carried out. As a result, the perception of these groups will change and they will embrace a posture towards becoming responsible citizens committed to the community's life, as well as participants in an open government.
What long-term goal as identified in your Open Government Strategy does this commitment relate to?
Promote the inclusive participation of all people, making visible the needs of the most vulnerable groups in order to build public policies that represent the interests and needs of the community.
Promote innovative processes and the use of technological tools within government institutions that allow easier interactions for people and facilitate their participation in public life.
Promote collaborative governance and the principles of Open Government to regain people's trust in their governments.
Primary Policy Area
Civic Space, Inclusion
Primary Sector
Education, Other/NA
What OGP value is this commitment relevant to?
| Access to information | The commitment allows girls, boys, and adolescents to have access to transparency through participatory processes since it creates favorable conditions to promote the socialization of transparency and the right of access to public information.The commitment allows girls, boys, and adolescents to have access to transparency through participatory processes since it creates favorable conditions to promote the socialization of transparency and the right of access to public information. |
| Civic Participation | The commitment seeks to create temporal and permanent spaces where children and adolescents can participate and carry out participatory processes in a safe, inclusive, and active listening environment. In this way, we are approaching a sector that historically encountered obstacles to finding the appropriate channels to actively participate in community life, thus promoting participation from an early age, which generates a culture of more active and participatory children and adolescents in the public life of the State. |
| Public Accountability | Through the development of digital and public spaces for the participation of girls, boys, and adolescents, we also seek to make them aware of the concept of accountability, as one of the cornerstones of the commitment. Promoting within the participatory exercises to encourage the socialization of this key element of Open Government. |
| Technology and Innovation for Transparency and Accountability | The innovation value is embedded within the commitment, starting with the co-creation workshops, where children and adolescents were included and jointly generated with adults some of the lines of action of the commitment, an unprecedented event in OGP. Likewise, it is not only innovative in the generation of digital and public spaces, but also in the realization of participatory processes involving girls, boys, and adolescents in a safe, inclusive and active listening environment. |