Compartiendo liderazgos, construyendo democracias
Compartiendo liderazgos, construyendo democracias
FLACSO-Chile and its project LIDERA (Leadership for democracies of the Andean Region) is an ongoing project that seeks to increase and strengthen leadership competencies and capabilities to develop varied policy advocacy projects in Bolivia, Perú and Chile. The main objective is to develop policy advocacy skills and leadership competencies in young women, civil society leaders, in order to create, implement, and influence their own political, social and cultural processes of their countries.
Facing the problems of democratic weakness and gender inequality, the project will focus its attention on women civil society leaders, permitting them to design, implement, and evaluate their own policy advocacy strategies. The project will address three countries that, while possessing distinct democratic systems, all face similar challenges to the strengthening of civil society.
The result of the project will be that women, civil society leaders, acquire policy advocacy abilities, skills and competencies, design and implement effective policy advocacy strategies, and systematize and share their policy advocacy knowledge and experiences. In this way, it is hoped that they will be able to strengthen democracy and create cooperative links between their three countries. The project will focus precisely on those deserving and visible women leaders who have developed actions – or have the potential to do so – for modifying the agendas of governments and other public or private organizations that design and execute public policy. It will give special attention to young women, with the aim of helping civil society organizations to achieve their desired impact and attain greater long-term sustainability.
One of the innovative aspects of the project is that it will use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a strategic tool. This will help to guarantee permanent formative spaces for women leaders – at a low cost – and at the same time strengthen advocacy strategies by making them more effective and by disseminating their contents with greater ease among relevant actors.
