Implement of the Youth Public Policy from Valle Del Cauca.

Agreement: Valle Del Cauca´s Department – Spanish Agency for

International Development Cooperation AECID

CONTACT DATA AND GENERAL INFORMATION

Name of the Youth Public Policy from Valle del Cauca
experience:
Geographic Valle del Cauca´s Department.
Location:
Direct Young people from 42 department local
Beneficiaries: authorities.
Type of entity: Public sector – Valle del Cauca´s Government–
Social Development Ministry.
Institutional Government from Valle del Cauca, International
Alliances: Cooperation Spanish Agency for the development
and Cooperation for Valle del Cauca Social and
Cultural Development.
Other allies Health Department Ministry, Valle University,
Javeriana University, Comfandi – Cultural Center
Comfandi, ESAP University, West Autonomous
University, Cali Cámara de Comercio de, Alcaldías
Municipales: Santiago de Cali, Tuluá, Buga,
Bugalagrande, Buenaventura, Candelaria, Cartago
and Young Social Organizations
Team work: - Luz Elena Azcárate Sinisterra – Social
Development Secretary
- Harold Zuluaga García – Youth Valle
Department Coordinator. . Email:
hzuluaga@valledelcauca.gov.co
- Diego Matta – Youth Technical Manager. Email:
santimatta@gmail.com
- Bairon Otálvaro Marín – AECID Project local
Coordinator of “Strengthening of participative
processes and Youth Valleucana peaceful
coexistence.” Email: bairon71@yahoo.com.
- Javier Pérez – Spanish Young Voluntary Worker.
Email: javierperez@aecid.org.co
- Giovanna Andrea Brand – Valle del Cauca
Childhood, Adolescence and Young people
Observatory Responsible. Email:
brandcasas@hotmail.com
- Telephones: 6200000 Ext. 1726.
- Fax: 6200185.
Introduction

The developments of population public policies in the last decades in Colombia

qualify the processes of attention to governmental institutions make in order to
attend the disfavored economical and social conditions that some social groups face
, between them the youth. In this sense, Valle del Cauca´s government has
anticipated multiple efforts that allow improving the life conditions of different
sectors that are affected by phenomena such as poorness and social exclusion
suffered in the region. In the isolated case of the youth , important actions oriented
to guarantee their wellness have Ben started, from focuses that are oriented to
consider the Young people as leading actors of their development, , idea that was
strengthened by the making of youth public policy department

In this document some relevant aspects of the mentioned experience regarding its
formulation, implement and institutional evaluation during the period 2005 – 2009
are presented.

Political and social context of the experience

Valle del Cauca´s Young people has deserved especial attention by the
departmental administration, especially by Social Development Ministry where has
been developed different strategies and programs oriented to guarantee their
wellness making progress in the institutional view overcoming the notion of the
Young as a risk, strengthening their participation in distinct spaces and sceneries
and noting down on the diaries the necessity of making a public policy.

Following this planning , in 2005 the administration leaded , through a participative

exercise, the formulation of“ Valle del Cauca´s Young people Public Policy (VYPP)”
initiative which contributed to the public debate on the matter and strengthen the
processes of social intervention that are anticipated by, from and to the young
people in Valle del Cauca. The policy opened channels of social participation based
on the principle of collective decisions, which should be explained, discussed and
argued.

From this view, the situation of Young people was analyzed and principles,
objectives and lineaments of the policy and Strategic Plan 2005 – 2015 were made.
In this process of making, around 2500 young people from 42 local authorities of
the department participated through methodological exercises related to social
public policies which motivated their participation and training around matters
related to the exercise of social public policies. The policy counts on a general
framework that supports and orientates the process of implement.

¿What was consolidated at the end?

To conclude, a scheme that sums up the principles, objectives and foundations of

this policy is presented and that condense the group work that the distinct actors
developed during its formulation.
 Scheme No 5
LINEAMENTS OF VALLE DEL CAUCA YOUTH DEPARTMENTAL POLICY 2005 – 2015.

Focus
Recognizing the Young people as a poblational sector with
multiple abilities and potentialities which should be
Public policy formulated in a participative way from a view of strengthening of the

strengthened and inserted into the plans, projects and diaries

of the institutions and organizations to boost the democracy,
the participation and the social organisation, the diverse
Characteristics
valleucana cultural demonstrations for the regional
economical development.
- Spreading and promotion by Government and Mayor´s offices.
- Predominates the collective interest over the particular one.
- Supported on the necessity of including and articulating the sectors
related to the Young matter.
democracy and the youth citizenship

- Integrated to other social and economical policies pointing at the

articulation and mediation between different sectors and actors.
- Establish the agreed making of strategies and instruments of follow –
ACTIONS

up and evaluation.
Objective
Foundation

Consolidate Valle del Cauca´s Young people as social

actor sable to negotiate their representation in the different
cultural, political, social and economical applications to
MANAGEMENT STRATEGIC

generate conditions that insure their inclusion in an equal Challenges

way.
- Integrate and make possible the access and warranty of rights.
- Recognize the heterogeneity of cultural identities and expressions
which need to be seen and recognized.
- Transcend the existent social dichotomy between those that
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youth it as
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sport sceneries and massive recreation.
participation in the department local authorities.  Promote strategies of sub regional economical
 Promote processes of knowledge and research development binding to the youth population.
 Potentiate control social processes to the local
and department management.  Promote the social responsibility of all the
TRANSVERSAL LINEAMENTS actors involved in the development economical
department..
Stage of implement, a space for the group learning

Once made the policy, was achieved an approach to la AECID, organisation that was
established in 2006 an agreement of bilateral cooperation valid until march of 2010
for the development of the project “Strengthening of processes of young valleucana
´s social participation and peaceful coexistence”, which counts on Valle del Cauca´s
Government compensation resources.

With these resources, actions are developed facing the three orientative lineaments
of the Young people´s policy which have proposals and punctual objectives. The one
of youth social participation has oriented its actions in two ways, on the one hand,
to strengthen the diverse applications, mechanisms and instruments of youth social
participation in the department, and, on the other, to shape a system of social
information (childhood, adolescence and Young people´s observatory) as an
instrument of taking decisions, follow-up of the policy and evaluation of the local
and department public business. The lineament of peaceful coexistence has focused
on two aspects; the first one on strengthening an institutional network and on youth
social organisations that promote the region Young people’s potentialities, through
the development of citizen exercises aimed at fostering a peaceful and
coexistence culture in the department, and the second one , on generating meeting
dynamics and youth coexistence through the cultural development , the training of
public critics, the use of public spaces and the articulation of local and regional
institutional offer on the matter. These two aspects are addressed through
communication to achieve social change. Young people are educated, a space for
implementation of their ideas was created as well, they can create Multimedia
audiovisuals, radial or articles.1

Last in the lineament of integration to the economical development has started

diverse actions, aimed at recognizing and strengthening youth productive
initiatives, especially those that hold the consecution of objectives of two last
lineaments and guarantee the equality of genders, and two, aimed at generating
public and private strategic alliances that strengthen the design, the start and the
sustainability of new businessmen´s plans.

In general, the implement of youth policy has counted on economical resources and
human talent, on planning of activities year by year and on the participation of
diverse actors, so that it integrates the necessary elements that justify them: an
arranged programmed sequence of actions and activities that entail many
reiterative, progressive, individual and collective operations and that search the
specific means to achieve the a planned objective. (Aguilar, 2001:46).

Some institutional learnings

1. The youth matter has achieved to maintain valid and has certain sustainability,
due to high levels of decision or to the interest of the direct responsibly of the
matter in the ministry which leads it.
2. The local civil servants have found a new way of communicating to the young
people facing challenges, overcoming institutional paradigms and youth
problems.
3. The youth public policy has generated a dynamic of own institutional work that
sometimes have been a compensation in the own governmental entity.

1
In February 2009 the youth center for audiovisual and multimedia production was created this center counts with
high technology equipment. it is a public access place where young people develop communication ideas for social
change and coherency with the PPJV lines.
Some learnings from a youth view
1. The young people have achieved a level of political incidence in the department
and the region (making of development and strategic plans, interlocution to
institutional actors, boost of strategies arranged with institutions).
2. The Young people have achieved a recognising to their processes and
developments.
3. The Young people have the ability of interlocution and making of proposals by
institutional actors from the difference or meeting points.

Lineament: Strengthen the mechanisms and spaces of participation

ACHIEVEMENTS
∗ The start of a strategy of coordinators and
revitalizing boosted by the interested
young people in collectivizing and
multiplying PPJV.
∗ View and Young people´s positioning and
their social organisations from participation
of different sceneries. Strengthening of
young social networks in the department..
∗ Consultancy to making and consolidating
processes to PPJ in some department´s
local authorities
Lineament: Making a peaceful and coexistence culture.
ACHIEVEMENTS
∗ Development of training courses in
communication for the social change.
∗ Creation and assembly of an audiovisual
and multimedia room for valleucana Young
people.
∗ Making public critics and making young
woman´s positive imagery.
LEARNINGS
∗ Adoption matters of public interest of
strategies to motivate the youth participation
in matters of public interest.
∗ Businesses of articulation and implement of
the PPJV lineaments with other ministries or
governmental entities.
∗ Recognising and political participation in the
department of Young people into the
dynamics
∗ Generation of meeting spaces and
sceneries for the incidence in the change of
Young people´s attitude regarding the
political matter.
LEARNINGS
∗ Young people talking to other ones in
sceneries of political representation
positioning the valleucano youth work as
strategies that contribute tom a strategy of a
peaceful culture.
∗ Young people trained on matters of peaceful
coexistence to act as facilitators and
mediators in matters of conflict solutions

∗ Making of audiovisual products ∗ Sensibilization of public and private public

institutions on the cultural potential as
emphasizing the promotion of tools and
revitalizing of a social coexistence in
methods to resolve in a peaceful way the sceneries of local and regional conflict.
conflicts. Support to young cultural initiative ∗ Promotion of intergenerational meeting
and cultural groups that promote a peaceful sceneries that promote the peaceful
culture in the department. coexistence.
 Lineament: Integration into the regional economical development.
ACHIEVEMENTS LEARNINGS
∗ Consolidation and training to Young people ∗ Business with 13 local authorities for the
who lead 13 youth communal telecenters. co-management and telecenters
operation.
∗ Fostering and articulation of youth productive
initiatives following the components of social. ∗ Recognising of projects and youth
enterprising programs in the department..
∗ Youth enterprising through the making of a
plan of productive consultancies, strengthening ∗ Development of processes of institutional
of set youth companies, especially those that articulation with the Council of especial
guarantee the equality of genders. programs through the program networks
making peace inserting the focus on rights
in the public actions.