PYE - Participation and Equity Platform

1.    Local actors at the state level (including institutions and government) work with the social inequalities identified in the previous phase of the Platform and build strategies to reduce equity gaps.

2.    Social activists, mainly from poor and vulnerable groups, become leaders of projects that have an impact on the reduction of equity gaps.

Risultati principali attesi:  

1.    Local platform projects become good practice and drive central government programs about gender and race that promote social equity for the development of local actors.

2.    Implemented local initiatives (affirmative actions to address poverty) to reduce equity gaps.

3.    People from socially disadvantaged groups sensitized and trained to exercise active citizenship in favor of equity.

4.    Local experiences in the promotion of equity at the national and international levels socialized and exchanged.

5.    A municipality of reference in participatory local management with a focus on equity is formed, accompanied by the Platform.

6.    Social communication spaces generated, in which local networks make the equity approach visible as a condition for development.

Risultati fasi precedenti:  

1.    A training program "Social equity for development for local actors" created for Cuban civil society.

2.    Reduced equity gaps of 10% of the vulnerable population in three municipalities with affirmative actions to address poverty with an equity approach in gender and race.

3.    Directly benefited 3,540 people from socially disadvantaged groups, for the exercise of active citizenship in favor of equity in 12 municipalities in the country, and indirectly benefited the disadvantaged population of these municipalities.

4.    Socialized and exchanged experiences of 6 leading initiatives of local promotion of equity at national and international level.

5.    Designed and implemented a reference model in the municipality of Centro Habana, for participatory municipal management of sustainable development with a focus on equity at the local level.

6.    Eight social communication spaces generated from local networks where the equity approach is highlighted from the perspective of race, gender, sexual diversity and age groups as a condition for development.

7.    Creation of a national space for reflection and debate for the incidence associated with the intersectionality of the dimensions of social equity in the Cuban context from a racial and gender perspective.

Fase 3 01.12.2021 - 30.06.2024   (Completed)