Deadline: 16-Sep-22
Nominations are now open for the 2022 Gobernarte Pablo Valenti Award to identify, reward, support, and disseminate public management initiatives of sub-national governments such as states, provinces, departments, municipalities, or other equivalent denominations in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Objectives
The objectives of the competition are:
- Identify and reward innovative and comprehensive initiatives in public management to promote creativity as well as initiatives that seek to improve citizen services by strengthening institutional capacity.
- Document and disseminate these innovations to advance the agenda of strengthening institutional capacity and modernizing the State in LAC towards effective, efficient and open governments.
- Facilitate cooperation among subnational governments to deepen knowledge of innovative experiences in public management and expand their dissemination among interested stakeholders to contribute to strengthening institutional capacity.
Categories
In 2022, Gobernarte will recognize innovative initiatives by subnational governments in:
- Category 1: Public innovation in the face of new migration flows in LAC
- Category 2: Public innovation to prevent and respond to the crime of trafficking in persons in LAC.
Thematic Areas
- Category 1
- Strengthening of information systems and registries
- Access to social and basic services
- Socioeconomic integration
- Facilitation of regular migration
- Category 2
- Strengthening of information, registration, and detection systems for trafficking in persons.
- Prevention of Trafficking in Persons
- Protection of Victims of Trafficking in persons
- Prosecution of Trafficking in Persons
Eligibility Criteria
- Second administrative level governments (state, departmental, provincial, regional, or other denominations) and third administrative level governments (municipalities or other denominations) of IDB borrowing countries are eligible to apply. The initiatives must be presented by the government teams that designed them, establishing a contact person from the government that is applying.
- Subnational governments may participate individually or in alliance with the national government or other subnational governments, international cooperation, civil society, academia or the private sector, among others.
For more information, visit https://www.iadb.org/en/gobernarte