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UNITED NATIONS CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
Engaging Citizens to Enhance Public Service Delivery and Strengthen Accountability
Participatory and Accountable Public Service Delivery in Brazil
Speaker: Luiz Alberto dos Santos
Civil House of The Presidency
Participatory Governance and Public
Service Delivery in Brazil• Participatory budgeting experiences in state and
municipal levels since 1989
• Broad experience with social participation in neocorporativist arrangements to increase CSO participation in policymaking
Councyls and Committes
Conferences (from local to national)
• Ombudsmen
• Public Hearings
• Plebiscite and Referendum
National Conferences
•From1941 to1988, 12 national conferences happened in the health sector
•From 1987 to 2009 92 conferences were held.
•80 of them were of NORMATIVE, DELIBERATIVE and NATIONAL
nature
National Conferences from1987 to 2010
12 2
32
3 32 2 2
7
1
9
7
9
15
7
9
12
8
87 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Fonte: Secretaria Geral da Presidência da República (2010).
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National Councyls of Public Policies
90 National Councils and Committees in the Federal Level of Public Administration with the participation of civil society representativesOn the 35 more important councyls and committees, 59% of the participants are from CSOs
Total Participants
Gov CSO
1423 589 834
41%
59%
Governo Sociedade Civil
Ombudsmen
Social participation and defense of rights
Different degrees of authonomy
2002 2010
40 165
PERÍODO
Ombudsmen institutions on the Federal Government
• Extensive experience in co-production of public services with non-governamental partners:
– CSO of public interest
– Social assistance - non-profit oriented entitites
– Health Care (e.g. disabled persons, indigenous communities)
– Private universities ans schools – PROUNI
– Environment protection (NGOs)
– Costumers rights protection - PROCONs
– Authonomous social services funded by social taxes
– Therapeutic communities – Integrated Plan to Figth Crack and
Other Drugs
– Youth, women and minorities policies
– PRONASCI and Womens of Peace Project
An Inovative Experience with Social Participation in Public
Service Delivery: The Women of Peace Project
A project of the Ministry of Justice of Brazil
National Secretariat of Public Security
National Coordenator: NEUSA PIVATTO MULLER
Context of government actions on behalf of women in Brazil
• 2003 – creation of the Special Secretary for Policy for Women
• 2007 - Maria da Penha Law (Lei Maria da Penha) – Special Police units in assisting women
– Shelters for women victims of violence
– Implementation of women's departments in states and municipalities
– macro policies: stimulating education, direct cash transfer (Bolsa Familia)
• 2008 – creation of PRONASCI – National Program of Public Safety with Citizenship
PRONASCI –National Program of Public Safety with
Citizenship
•PRONASCI - pioneer initiative started in 2008
•Joins actions of prevention, control and repression of violence
•Focused on the socio-cultural roots of crime•Articulates public safety programs with social policies combined with strategies of control and
qualified repression of criminality.•Several projects involving different levels of
government and civil society organizations
PROJECT WOMEN OF PEACE- Projeto Mulheres da Paz -
Project Women of Peace – PWP - created in the scope of PRONASCI.
Primary Objective:- to give incentives to women and empower women to
act as a social mediator- to construct and strengthen social networks of
prevention and combating types of domestic and urban violence.
The base area are the Territories of Peace (risky areas defined by National Program for Public Safety with Citizenship).
OBJECTIVES
• Training of female community leaderships in the most violent metropolitan areas of the country,
aiming
a) to direct the young (aged 15-24 year) to social programmes with an educational, cultural and sports character (PROTEJO, PROJOVEM),
b) to prevent violence (women and the young) and
c) to promote security (helping police in the communities).
• Strengthen political practices and socio-cultural activities
• Act as social mediators, helping the community in preventing and reducing violence and rescue young people and adolescents exposed to domestic and urban violence.
Target Public of PWP
Requirements:
• Belong to the social networks or parenthood of youngsters focused by the PRONASCI
• at least 18 years old
• at least 4 years of fundamental school or proved reading and writing skills
• Living on the communities in the regions included as priorities in the PRONASCI
• capacity to represent colective interests
• family income below 2 national minimum wage (today: about USD 660)
Financial help and support
• The PWP aims to identify and train potential or proved community leaders in urban areas
under high risk of violence
• Financial help of BRL 190 (about USD 110)
monthly and at least 150-hour training.
• Twelve (12) installments, provided they meet the objectives of PWP
• An office to support the multidisciplinary staff
and where lectures are given, with all the necessary infrastructure.
Partners – who is involved• Planning:
– Women in communities were involved from the design to
the implementation of the project.
– Consultations among helped to define the final design
Implementation
– Participants chosen through public call and work with all
the social networks and other projects in the community.
– States, municipalities, educational institutes, civil society organizations of public interest (NGOs) work with the
training on an ongoing basis
– About 50 organizations among institutes, foundations, NGOs, universities etc.
Contents of the training of women for peace
• ethics,
• citenship;
• access to the judicial system;
• access to justice: human rights and conflict mediation;
• violence against women, legal aspects, Maria da Penha Law
• psychosocial support
• Basic Computer skills - digital inclusion
• PRONASCI projects
Activities of Women of Peace
� Identify families that need assistance and
youngsters that may be included in the Project of
Protection of Young Peopel in Vulnerable Territory (Protejo) – PRONASCI project.
�Home visits to families diagnosed.
�Promotion of meetings and lectures and workshops with the community.
Some criticisms or risks
• Exposition to violency.
• Project seen as benefiting young criminals.
• Women selected are not real leaders in their communities
• Introducing of PWP only in selected areas that had reached a certain level of public security through the implementation of other programmes and projects
• Provision of support of a multidisciplinary group.
• The initial resistance to the project was gradually dropped with the success of initiatives of PRONASCI.
Results• Re-design of professional roles - upgrade of
Women’s status in the community after the training.
• Improvement of self-esteem
• Back to school and start initiatives of
entrepreneurship etc.
• Financial help
• Intervention in situations of violence, e.g. preventing
personal harm to the young and reducing violence in
the communities.
• General social and economic benefits for the
community.
Some figures (from 2009 to now)...
RESULTS NUMBER/ $ BRL
Agreements with NGOs since 2008 46
Federal Transfers of funds 43,8 millions
Complimentary resources from partners
314 thousand
Total Women benefited >17 thousand
Indirectly benefited families 495 thousand
There is a demand for more Women of Peace in the communities
These demands will be met as recommended by the National Council for
Public Security and other stakeholders.
Concluding...
• Public safety is a problem concerning everybody
(federal government, states, municipalities, civil society, citizens etc.).
• Increased women’s role in articulating social
actions and police actions, reducing conflicts.
• New approach built on the demands of the
communities regarding violence against women and the young
• Involving members of the community as active
members in the implementation of a public
security policy.
• Involvement of communities in co-production
and engagement and participation of civil society
in delivering public services.
• important impact in reducing violence and
increasing the feeling of security, with social and
economic benefits for the community.
• Program still in its introductory phase but is a
source of institutional learning and innovation.
Some Women’s of Peace with Dilma Rousseff
“I would love that fathers and mothers of girls today would look in their eyes, and tell them: yes, the woman can”
Dilma Roussef (1st woman elected president in Brazil - 31/10/2010 )
