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Title
Please provide a name for your action learning plan.
From Citizen Participation to Citizen Action
Challenge statement
Challenge type: If you are working on multiple challenges, please indicate if this is your "big bet" or "exploratory" challenge.
Please note: we ask you to only submit a maximum of 3 challenges - 1x Big Bet, 2x Exploratory. Each challenge must be submitted individually.
BIG BET
Challenge statement: What is your challenge? (Please answer in specific terms: "Our challenge is that...”.)
Our challenge is to discover, learn and systematize the mechanisms that motivate citizen participation and turn it into action. Our experiments, directly integrated with the ongoing projects of the three UNDP Peru programmes, will allow us to learn:
What are participation drivers?
What are the key factors that transform discourse into action?
How is UNDP managing citizen participation internally?
What are our gaps and capacities needed to sustain participation over time?
Experiments:
Digital Citizen Participation platform
Citizen participation and consensus around the sustainable value chain of coffee
Digitalization volunteers
Citizen Science Collective mapping
Co-creation methods: Citizen participation at the municipal level
Background: What is the history of your challenge? What is causing or driving it? Who is involved? How does the current situation look like? What undesired effects does it produce?
All programmes within the Peru CO have at least one project that relies on citizen participation to collect data, but there isn’t a collective toolbox of common methodologies that provide comparable information at a local level. The Peru CO is currently building localized territorial strategies based on the existing projects, but this challenge will align, disseminate and build internal skills to improve and enhance citizen participation as part of these territorial strategies and provide value-added to UNDP’s portfolio.
The Peru Accelerator Lab has consistently been building towards this cross-cutting frontier challenge by always focusing on user-centric solutions through its four previous frontier challenges. Now it’s time to close the loop and rely on all of our experiences to build a citizen participation toolkit with relevant methodologies that can be used to collect and understand data, identify future signals and trends, map solutions and create a feedback loop with those that are impacted by UNDP projects.
Quantitative evidence: What (official) data sources do you have on this challenge that better exemplifies the importance and urgency of this frontier challenge? You can add text, a link, or a picture.
www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/4267205/CEPLAN%20-%20Participaci%C3%B3n%20Ciudadana%20en%20Pol%C3%ADticas%20Nacionales.pdf" target="_blank">www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/4267205/CEPLAN%20-%20Participaci%C3%B3n%20Ciudadana%20en%20Pol%C3%ADticas%20Nacionales.pdf" target="_blank">https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/4267205/CEPLAN%20-%20Participaci%C3%B3n%20Ciudadana%20en%20Pol%C3%ADticas%20Nacionales.pdf
Qualitative evidence: What weak signals have you recently spotted that characterizes its urgency? Please provide qualitative information that better exemplifies the importance and urgency of this frontier challenge. You can add text, a link, or a picture.
https://rpp.pe/peru/actualidad/participacion-ciudadana-por-que-es-importante-que-los-peruanos-se-comprometan-a-proponer-mejoras-para-el-pais-noticia-1479702
Value proposition: What added value or unique value proposition is your Accelerator Lab bringing to solving this challenge? Why is it your Lab that needs to work on this challenge and not other actors within UNDP, other stakeholders in the country respectively? Why is it worth investing resources to this challenge?
The Lab has a cross-cutting perspective of the Peru CO and can test initiatives that can support projects in more than one programme and experiment varied approaches to citizen participation simultaneously in different topics and geographies.
The Lab has gathered insights on citizen participation through its previous frontier challenges on changemaker youth, food systems, culture for development and digitalization and will apply them to its portfolio of experiments.
Short “tweet” summary: We would like to tweet what you are working on, can you summarize your challenge in a maximum of 280 characters?
Can citizen participation be efficient, effective and sustainable over time? Let’s dive in and learn about the motivations and challenges that transform citizen participation in citizen action!
Partners
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the partner:
MINCETUR/PromPeru
What sector does our partner belong to?
Government (&related)
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
MINCETUR/PromPeru: Peru’s Trade and Tourism Promotion Office. In charge of specialised branding for sustainable value chains, particularly coffee. Public Sector. The Lab has worked with PromPeru and will continue to do so to rethink Peruvian coffee brand’s fundamentals, based on collective intelligence and national consensus.
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
No
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the partner:
CONCYTEC (National Council of Science and Technology)
What sector does our partner belong to?
Government (&related)
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
CONCYTEC (National Council of Science and Technology): Has not worked before with UNDP Peru. The relationship started when CONCYTEC invited the Accelerator Lab to participate in their National Innovation Week in 2021, and in 2023 we facilitated a presentation at the same event by Maria Veronica Moreno from the Argentina Lab on their citizen science initiative. This has generated interest by CONCYTEC in organizing a pilot experience on citizen science jointly with their research institutes on the mountain and amazonic ecosystems.
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
No
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the partner:
PUCP - University
What sector does our partner belong to?
Academia
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
We look forward to work closely with the new faculty of Gastronomy and Tourism, in order to co-create with students and involve them in the consultancy processes we will deploy for the Peruvian Coffee ecosystem.
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
No
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the partner:
UNV
What sector does our partner belong to?
United Nations
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
UNV: The Digiamig@s initiative is based on the Digichiquihuites experience designed by the El Salvador Lab, but has been expanded nationwide with UNV’s participation and their volunteer network. We’re currently in the process of gathering insights from the young volunteers and preparing a videoblog on this experience.
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
No
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the partner:
Citizenlab
What sector does our partner belong to?
Private Sector
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
Citizen Lab: Digital platform and co-creation space for digital participation. We have worked with them and will continue to do so to experiment and learn about digital citizen engagement
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
No
Learning questions
Learning question: What is your learning question for this challenge? What do you need to know or understand to work on your challenge statement?
How can we activate, build and maintain links with citizens that lead to fluid and sustained participation and action?
What are the tools, methods and capabilities within UNDP needed to cultivate sustained citizen participation?
To what stage(s) in the learning cycle does your learning question relate?
Sense, Explore, Test, Grow
Usage of methods: Relating to your choice above, how will you use your methods & tools for this learning question? What value do these add in answering your learning question?
These methods and tools will continue allow the Lab to validate and refine the existing methodologies that we have worked on during the past learning cycles with citizens throughout the country, while also gathering insights from our CO colleagues on what works best and what doesn't.
Existing data gaps: Relating to your choice above, what existing gaps in data or information do these new sources of data addressing? What value do these add in answering your learning question?
We do not have a systematized and accessible toolbox for sustained citizen participation within UNDP Peru, and several projects that involve citizens usually end up losing momentum. The information and data we gather will allow us to shape the tools that we have been working on during our previous learning cycles and test them with different programmes and in different national contexts.
Closing
Early leads to grow: Think about the possible grow phase for this challenge - who might benefit from your work on this challenge or who might be the champions in your country that you should inform or collaborate with early on to help you grow this challenge?
The growth stage for this challenge would be the creation of the cross-cutting unit within UNDP Peru (much like the recently created gender unit) that ensures that all projects have a citizen participation component in its design and/or implementation phases. Additionally, through our work with CONCYTEC and the Peruvian Ministry of Production and its ProInnóvate unit we could collaborate in creating new lines of work in government agencies that leverage open participation in citizen science or in social and environmental innovation projects.
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