Our major work will be towards strengthening and training collective representative groups and others that work on mobilizations to protect the Right to the City.
Using this criterion, our priority partners are civil society movements and groups that organize themselves around issues of health, housing, education, the environment, children and adolescents and the rights of women and blacks.
We are particularly interested in straitening ties with the Union of Popular Health Movements, the Union of Housing Movements, the Popular Movements’ Central, the National Confederation of Neighborhood Associations, and the National Social Movements’ Coordination.
We consider social leadership linked to these social movements, social leaders that are elected as members on the different management councils, as well as the delegates to Participatory Budgets, the social leadership that represents the new dynamics of the cities, including cultural movements, hip hop groups, scavengers, to take priority in our action plan.
Democratization of public management, in addition to requiring active and continuous presence of citizenry, must also have political will and openness on the part of municipal administrations for the participation mechanisms adopted to become effective as decision-making forums. Understanding that this democratization process of management requires the engagement of public managers and technicians, we also manifest our intention to work with this public, in our training and information dissemination activities.
We recognize that, in a country such as ours of continental dimensions, the magnitude of the challenge of working with stakeholders that are involved in protecting the right to the city. The strategy of taking part in networks and forums that expand, enhance and politicize local expressions of struggle to protect human rights leads us to identify with social educators, present in many different areas, as part of our priority public.
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