Deadline: 16-Sep-22
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has launched the eighth edition of the competition “Gobernarte: the art of good government – Pablo Valenti Award”, which will reward the best innovative initiatives of subnational governments in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Gobernarte seeks to identify, document and, ultimately, reward innovative and comprehensive initiatives in subnational public management of the countries of the region that improve citizen services by strengthening institutional capacity.
The competition especially recognizes innovation, social inclusion and the gender, diversity and sustainability approach, under the framework of the IDB’s Vision 2025 and to supporting the dissemination of the selected projects throughout the region. The idea is that other governments learn about and, eventually, incorporate successful experiences of management and strengthening of institutional capacity.
Categories
This year, the IDB will recognize innovative governments that are fostering collaboration, collective learning, and digital tools from a solutions-driven approach in two categories:
- Public innovation in the face of new migratory flows in Latin America and the Caribbean: Provide mechanisms for strengthening institutional capacity that guarantee the rights of migrants and returnees, such as access to education and public services, strengthening of information and registration systems, socioeconomic and cultural integration, the reduction of xenophobia, changes at the normative and institutional level, among others.
- Public innovation against the crime of Trafficking in Persons in the region: Promotion of public innovation and institutional capacity against Trafficking in Persons, through services that seek to strengthen the detection, reporting and attention of this crime as well as intergovernmental coordination and coordination with various actors for the prevention and protection of potential victims and awareness raising for the general public, among others.
Eligibility Criteria
- The initiatives may be submitted by governments of the second level (states, provinces, departments, regions and other denominations) or third administrative level (municipalities and other denominations) of IDB borrowing countries.
- Alliances with national or subnational governments with civil society organizations, private sector entities or academic centers will be accepted.
For more information, visit https://www.iadb.org/en/news/idb-launches-call-public-innovation-migration-and-against-human-trafficking