Civic Innovators: Local Engagement for Building Equitable Societies

As part of our Civic Innovators series we bring you an intimate look at how everyday citizens make change happen and help to protect and expand civic space everywhere. Our guests today are: Mar Botero, with Un Techo para mi País (TECHO) in Chile, and Nyandeh Sieh from Friends of Franbarnie International in Nigeria. Both are winners of Innovation for Change's innovation grants. 

Friends of Franbarnie International (FOFI ) and its collaborating partners focused on mobilizing 60 persons, including local government officials and civil society actors to discuss civil society policy documents and to come to an agreement at consultative meetings. They also focused on networking and advocacy training for civil society actors. By bringing together civil society actors and local government officials to discuss mechanisms concerning civil society they able to create local engagement and solutions in three southeastern counties. 

TECHO helped to promote massive and representative online and offline participation of the youth diversities of the main cities of Latin America in a discussion on participation at the local, national and regional levels. Their project focused on building a citizen proposal for the implementation of the New Urban Agenda through the promotion of diverse and large-scale youth participation in six cities of Latin America: Mexico City (Mexico), Bogota (Colombia), Lima (Peru), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Santiago (Chile).