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REGIONAL CONSORTIUM FOR THE PROMOTION OF EQUITY:

A bilateral project financed by the CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (CIDA) 2006-2010

WOMEN OF THE STATE OF MINAS GERAIS MULHERES DAS GERAIS

PRESENTATION SUMMARY

Brazil in perspective Gender inequality in Brazil Metropolitan and regional challenges The Consortium ‘Mulheres das Gerais’ Recommendations Final comments Canada-Brazil Cooperation: New Public Consortia The new legal framework

Environmental degradation Environmental degradation Uncontrolled urban growth Uncontrolled urban growth Lack of infrastructure Lack of infrastructure Social exclusion Social exclusion

Metropolitan and regional challenges

MUNICIPALITY A MUNICIPALITY B MUNICIPALITY C

Metropolitan and regional challenges

• 81% of the population of Brazil lives in

urban areas.

• The gap between rich and poor is one of

the highest in the world.

• There is a lack of specific legislation to

stimulate cooperation between municipalities to address issues collaboratively.

Metropolitan and regional challenges

Canada-Brazil Cooperation: New Public Consortia

• a 4 year partnership between the

University of British Columbia (Canada) and Brazil’s Ministry of Cities.

• Goal: to stimulate inter-municipal

and federative collaboration.

• funded through the Knowledge

Exchange through Equity Promotion (KEEP) program of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

• Ministry of Cities and other

federal and municipal partners in Brazil are responsible for support to regional consortia.

New Public Consortia for Metropolitan Governance

April 2006 to March 2010

Canada-Brazil Cooperation: New Public Consortia

Objectives

• To support the development of new public consortia in five

metropolitan areas: Belo Horizonte, Fortaleza, Recife, Santarém and Santo André (São Paulo MA);

• To test and develop new mechanisms for consortiation by

applying them to collaborative urban recovery projects at the regional/metropolitan level;

• To formulate, on the basis of learning from experience in the

five metropolitan areas, national guidelines for organizing locally appropriate consortia for dealing with social exclusion in metropolitan areas;

• To strengthen the capacity of municipalities and associations
• f municipalities, as well as social movements, to contribute

to dissemination and implementation of public consortia for social inclusion.

Canada-Brazil Cooperation: New Public Consortia

• Santarém
• Fortaleza
• Recife
• Belo Horizonte
• Santo André

Canada-Brazil Cooperation: New Public Consortia

Expected Outcomes

• Institutional capacity in five metropolitan regions:

To work collaboratively at regional/metropolitan level to fight social exclusion and attend to the basic needs of vulnerable populations; To plan at regional/metropolitan level public polices that improve the quality of life of these populations.

• Strengthened capacity in civil society to participate

in integrated metropolitan/regional collaborative planning actions and programs.

• Manuals, proposals for procedures at national level

to form public consortia at regional / metropolitan level.

Brazil in perspective

49% Men 51% Women 183.9 million Population

Brazilian women – who are we?

• Women make up 51.2% of the population
• f whom 46% are black or mulatto. This

equals 89 million women, of whom 85.4% live in urban regions.

• Percentage of increase in the aging

population: 1.63% per year.

• In 2004, women in the reproductive age

category (between 15 and 49 years) made up 49.1% of the population.

Gender inequality in Brazil

Brazilian women – who are we?

• National economically active population

rate is 62% (73.2% for men and 51.6% for women).

• In urban areas the national rate is 60.5%

(71.2% for men and 50.8% for women) whereas in rural areas the rate is 70% (82.2% for men and 56.4% for women).

Gender inequality in Brazil

INDICATOR: EDUCATION Gender inequality in Brazil

Education of men and women aged 7- 24 years old: white, black & mulatto (years of schooling)

Unemployment rate by race and sex - Brazil, 2003

Women and blacks have a harder time finding employment, regardless of whether a job is in the formal or informal sector. The graph above illustrates higher unemployment rates for these two demographic groups.

INDICATOR: EMPLOYMENT Gender inequality in Brazil

Proportion of households that are headed by women

Source: IBGE, Demographic Census 1991 and 2000.

INDICATOR: THE HOUSEHOLD Gender inequality in Brazil

1991

%

1.7 – 10 10 – 15 15 – 20 20 – 48.3

2000

%

1.7 – 10 10 – 15 15 – 20 20 – 42.7

INDICATOR: COST OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

In the World

• One of every 5 missed workdays is a result of

violence suffered by women in their household.

• Domestic violence will reduce a woman’s

healthy life by 1 year in every 5. In Latin America and the Carribean Region

• Domestic violence affects between 25% and

50% of all woman.

• Domestic violence costs over 14% of the GDP
• f the region, totalling approximately US$170

billion per year.

Gender inequality in Brazil

Gender violence statistics for Brazil

• 70% of all crimes against women occur

in the household and are committed by the husband or partner.

• Domestic violence costs over 10% of the

country’s GDP per year.

Gender inequality in Brazil INDICATOR: COST OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Gender violence statistics for Brazil

• An estimated 2.1 million women suffer physical abuse each

year.

• One in every five women has admitted suffering some kind of

abuse by men. Every 15 seconds a women is physically abused by men.

• Data shows that the agression against women is perpetrated

by men across social classes and in all regions.

• 43% of all women feel that creating shelter houses for battered

women and their dependants is the most important policy to fight violence against woman.

• 74% of all women feel that shelter houses should be in the top

three of all public policies to protect women.

Gender inequality in Brazil INDICATOR: COST OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Data on violence against women in the municipality

• f Belo Horizonte

Gender inequality in Brazil INDICATOR: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

New Public Consortia Law

• ... Art. 241: the Union, the States, the Federal District

and Municipalities will enact laws to implement public consortia and cooperation ‘convênios’, between federative entities, authorizing the associated management of public services, as well as total or partial transference of tasks, services, personnel and assets essential to the continuity of the transferred services;

• Law 11.107/05: defines the constitutional instrument

establishing procedures and creating juridical institutions;

• Decree 6017/07: defines details and procedures for

these institutions and establish criteria for their implementation.

The new legal framework

The new legal framework

Law 11.340/06 – Law Maria da Penha

Title III, Chapter I: About the Prevention and integrated measures

• Art 8º: Public policy that aims to fight domestic and

family violence against women will be implemented through a a group of articulated actions between the Union, States and Municipalities as well as inter- institutional actions, aiming for:

• VI. The enactment of convênios, protocols and

agreements, and other instruments which promote partnership between governmental entities having as a goal the implementation of programs to erradicate domestic and family violence against women.

INTERNATIONAL PACT The Millenium Goals

In 2006, Belo Horizonte was designated by the United Nations to participate in the Program ‘Localizing the Development of the Millennium Objectives’. Since then, a series of indicators were defined to monitor implementation of the Millennium Goals.

The new legal framework

LOCATION

METROPOLITAN REGION OF BELO HORIZONTE

The Consortium ‘Mulheres das Gerais’

Rationale for a Consortiated Approach

• Achieving gender equality and women’s autonomy is

rooted in eliminating asymmetrical perceptions related to men’s and women’s participation in social and economic structures.

• Before the creation of the Consortium ‘Mulheres das

Gerais’, the municipalities of Belo Horizonte, Betim, Contagem and Sabará had already developed isolated actions related to women’s policies but with limited scope and range.

• Even when implementing women’s policies, the

municipalities did not have enough resources, and those that had used them in a scattered, discontinuous manner.

The Consortium ‘Mulheres das Gerais’

• To articulate project activities among the executive levels of

Municipal Government and between the participant municipalities

• To define the direction/theme of the consortiated effort
• To help the technical group to implement actions defined during

the strategic planning sessions

• To follow up the elaboration of legal documents for the consortium

framework

• To form a council for making decisions through consensus

between the four munciipalities

• To work out methodologies of consortium axes which must be

included in the Protocol of Intentions

• To design and implement the agenda of the working groups
• To interact with representatives of academic institutions
• To interact with technical groups of engaged municipalities in
• rder to develop necessary collaborative methodologies
• To communicate regularly through bi-monthly meetings with the

Management Group about successes and challenges

• To follow up the process of detailing methodologies developed by

the technical group

• To hold capacity building workshops on the Federal Law

11.107/05

• To support the creation of a Protocol of Intentions and other legal

documents

COOPERATION MECHANISMS: MANAGEMENT GROUPS

The Consortium ‘Mulheres das Gerais’

Intermunicipal Group M1 M3 M4 M2 M1 M3 M4 M2 M1 M3 M4 M2 Representativity Participants in Intermunicipal group chosen by municipal groups Agility A small number of participants simplifies the

• rganization of meetings

without harming representation and inclusion of each municipality Legitimacy Group participants represent the interests of municipalities and have decision-making power Characteristics Three Levels Management level Technical level (Technical nucleus) Legal level Accountancy Budget

The Consortium ‘Mulheres das Gerais’

1. Direct access to government executive (mayors, etc) 2. Decision-making power related to budget issues 3. Thematically related 1. Thematic knowledge 2. Systemic vision of public policies 3. Interested and commited 4. Innovative 1. Familiar with the new federal law for public consortia 2. Understanding of the scope of the consortiation process 3. Interested and commited Three levels of Collaboration Management level Technical level Legal level Accountancy Budget Five aspects of the Consortiation Process Political Financial Administrative Technical / Thematic Legal / Organizational

The Consortium ‘Mulheres das Gerais’

Profile of Participants

INTER- INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION

The Consortium ‘Mulheres das Gerais’

The Consortium ‘Mulheres das Gerais’

INTER- INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION

Consortium Vision and Mission

• Vision

“A society aware of gender equity and free of all forms of violence against women”

• Mission

“Plan, foster and implement consortiated and shared actions and programs, which address emancipation and inclusivenness, respecting diversities and common interests, within a collaborative and sustainable framework to prevent and fight any form of violence against women”.

The Consortium ‘Mulheres das Gerais’

Consortium Principles

• Recognition of equal rights between the different parties.
• Guarantee transparency and accountability.
• Recognize mutual dependecy and co-responsability.
• Recognize and respect specificity and autonomy of

consortiatied entities.

• Recognize universal rights and existing gender laws,

agreements, treaties and conventions.

• Guarantee sustainability of the consortium through

continuous monitoring and evaluation.

• Foster coordinated and cooperative initiatives that explore

regional approaches related to the consortium theme.

• Incorporate transparent and informed decision-making

processes.

The Consortium ‘Mulheres das Gerais’

Consortiated Methodology for Fighting Violence against Women

The Consortium ‘Mulheres das Gerais’

The Consortium ‘Mulheres das Gerais’

Benefits of an institutional regional approach

• 1. Favour control over public resources available to

intergovernmental cooperation.

• 2. Guarantee a contract among the consortiated entities

even when consortiation members dissolve.

• 3. Formalize financial contributions and assumed

responsabilities (shared contract).

• 4. Give strong and better legal support to the Federative

Cooperation Agreement.

• 5. Strengthen public policy that promotes social equity.

Recommendations

• 1. Stimulate the institutional learning process and build capacity

within the social movement to understand the challenges in addressing gender inequalities.

• 2. Articulate partnerships with local/regional universities to develop,

support and monitor implementation of local/regional programs.

• 3. Work through the four main axes of gender empowerment and

sensitization at the regional level:

• Non-sexist education
• Fight violence against women
• Job creation and income generation opportunities
• Emancipation

Recommendations

Good practices for strenthening gender policies at the regional level

• Gender becomes a priority.
• First regional public consortium

exclusively addressing social issues.

• Change of paradigms regarding

regional collaboration and gender as the collaboration theme.

• Sustainability of public policy is

guaranteed regardless of political affiliations.

Final remarks

Andréa Chelles:

andreachelles@yahoo.com.br

Erika de Castro:

decastro @ interchange.ubc.ca

NPC Project:

www.chs.ubc.ca/consortia/index.html

Contacts