(CHILD-FRIENDLY MAYOR)
PRESENTATION
The Child-Friendly Mayor Program acts to strengthen the mechanisms established by the International Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Statute of the Child and Adolescent (ECA). The initiative aims to mobilize, value, and technically advise the mayors who assume the child and adolescent as a priority in municipal management, developing public policies and action plans aimed at defending and implementation of their rights.
Coordinated with municipalities and rights councils, the program carries out a strategic network action that encourages dialogue between government agencies, councils, and civil society, to achieve actual improvement in the lives of children and adolescents.
Based on technical principles that can be used in any Brazilian city, the program also seeks to evaluate
Thiago Antonio Briganó, mayor of Ibirarema (SP):
The Child Friendly Mayor Program to me was one of the most important projects I carried out in
my management. From the beginning, there was this care to always do the best for our children and adolescents. Fundação Abrinq has given us every guidance to accomplish the diagnosis of our
city, we respect all program guidelines, even with difficulty, trying to improve our service levels. I emphasize that the main concern was to ensure the best care and ensuring the rights of children
and adolescents in Ibirarema.
aiming at the implementation of fundamental rights of children and adolescents, we create a Protection Network consisting of representatives
from different segments which monitors more carefully all public policies to improve care
for this age group and now I can see how much Ibirarema’s evolved.
the reality of each city, helping municipal managers to establish priority actions, according to regional needs. At the same time, it encourages the exchange of experiences of all participants in program through
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various actions, such as regional seminars and discussions in the Child-Friendly Mayor Network.
The proposed actions are organized around two axes:
Public Management and Social Policies. In the first, the program seeks to develop intersectoral processes in the planning, investment and strengthening of the of Rights and Guardianship Councils led by the Sustainable Development Objective (ODS) 16: To promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels;
In this axis, the actions are concentrated for the preparation, review and implementation of the City
Plan for Childhood and Adolescence (PMIA); for the expansion of investment in the area, qualification, and transparency of the identification of expenditures on the application of the methodology proposed by the Child and Adolescent Budget (OCA); for the regularization and operationalization of funds for childhood and adolescence; and for strengthening the rights of councils and guardianship.
The second axis includes three themes: promotion of healthy lives, quality education and protection in a situation of risk. Through the collection of official data and questionnaires, we seek the diagnosis of the local scenario and then establish the strategies and priorities for raising social indicators. Such strategies aim at the following ODS:
• ODS 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture;
• ODS 3: To ensure a healthy life and promote well-being for all, at all ages;
• ODS 4: To ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
• ODS 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
• ODS 6: Ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and basic sanitation for all;
• ODS 8: To promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all;
• ODS 13: Take urgent measures to combat climate change and its impacts;
• ODS 16: To promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide Raquel Lyra, mayor of Caruaru (PE):
The commitment made by the Child Friendly Mayor of Fundação Abrinq, corroborated with
the actions of our government plan, which undertook, with all Caruaru’s people to prioritize
the implementation of social and economic policies for healthy development of childhood and adolescence, with the promotion and protection of
rights without any violence.
In order to implement the methodology offered by Fundação Abrinq makes us believe in the effectiveness of the Rights Guarantee System, through the fulfillment of maps and proposed working agendas. We expanded the dialogue with
other agencies and consolidated some milestones in care policy for children and adolescents in the city: increasing the number of vacancies in daycare,
by the construction and adaptation of City’s Early Childhood Education Centers; we adopt a single list
of openings in daycare; we created the City’s Early Childhood Program; we created the Multidisciplinary
Specialized Children and Youth Clinic and the City’s Learning with Health Program; expand the
actions of the Happy Child Program and restructured the Host Houses.
access to justice for all and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels;
Created in 1996, the Child-Friendly Mayor Program closed its 6th edition in 2020 and the data below are conclusive as to the importance of the program to improve the indicators of the participating cities, gather efforts and, consequently, improve the reality of so many children and so many adolescents.
ACTIVITIES PERFORMED IN 2020
The 6th edition of the Child-Friendly Mayor Program was attended by 2,346 mayors. Of these, 848 remained until the final assessment and 125 were awarded the seal of public recognition Child Friendly Mayor.
Initially, the program aimed at engaging the municipalities in completing the final questionnaires for evaluation. Such questionnaires are designed from crossing official data with Foundation’s information, so as to view the status of each city in at least two different times: the beginning of the city’s management and the final status. Therefore, the receipt of this documentation in the final years of management shall determine the number of cities completing the assessment and are eligible for domestic recognition actions.
Despite all the difficulties faced in 2020 related to the pandemic caused by COVID-19, Fundação Abrinq was able to close the cycle with an adhesion rate close to the previous editions.
Then an assessment of cities’ management was carried out in order to establish the mayors to be awarded with recognition of Child Friendly Mayor and the awards Good Practices, recognition intended for cities’ management carrying out successful actions to guarantee, promotion and realization of the rights of children and adolescents, and Domestic Highlights, recognition attributed to cities’ management standing out for implementing integrated policies, structural
and permanent basis, strengthening the Rights Guarantee System (SGD) and develop impact actions in favor of children and adolescents. These managers are selected according to the best scores obtained in the technical criteria of the program and by the conference on their political activity.
At this stage, where the visits in loco for the monitoring of managers is provided for in notice the difficulties of movement had great impact during the pandemic. Only nine out of the 17 finalist cities for the recognition of the actions of Good Practices were visited before the travel interruption.
This fact prevented the two scheduled awards, but Foundation has chosen to maintain reference
Firmino da Silveira Soares Filho, mayor of Teresina (PI):
For 20 years I received the first award. And from that time neither I nor the city would never forget.
The proof is that, even today, where I go they call me Children’ Mayor, a title I take with great pride.
Child Friendly Mayor program is a signed contract on what matters most in a city: the lives of people who build the future. That has always been our greatest mission especially in key areas for child
protection and childhood stimulation.
If today Teresina has the best of Basic Education Development Index among the 27 Brazilian cities,
for example, because the city has a collective agreement for our children. So, for us this award is so significant, it is a work done for many years in and out of the classroom, and childhood is the great protagonist. On behalf of our city and our children, especially at this time we live in an unprecedented crisis – due to the pandemic of the
new Coronavirus – we reinforce our commitment to continue honoring this title that will
always be a gift for me and for others 800 thousand Teresina’s people.
documented to all finalists in action Management Evaluation Process Report 2017-2020, a publication released in July detailing the program’s actions, showing the main results achieved by the participating cities and evaluation of cities’ management carried out by Fundação Abrinq, resulting in 125 mayors recognized as Children-Friendly Mayors. By keeping the finalist’s actions in the report was a way to honor the enrolled cities and disseminate the initiatives appearing as a simple, creative, cross-sector alternative, of a structural nature and institutionalization capacity.
Following, full recognition of Child Friendly Mayor was designed in digital format, considering the impossibility of carrying out an in-person event in Brasilia, which commonly occurred at the end of each term in a ceremony that brought together about 400 people, including managers and guests.
OUTCOMES:
General:
446
cities carried out the final determination of the Child and Adolescent Budget (OCA);454
cities completed the final map of Social Policy;451
cities completed the final statement of the Strengthening Councils;125
mayors were recognized – full recognition – the 6th edition of the program.In Health:
753
maternity beds built in recognized cities;110
cities with School Food Council;104
cities have increased the percentage of live births whose mothers had seven or more prenatal visits (2016 to 2018);77
cities with the Committee for Infant and Fetal Deaths Prevention and Investigation;73
cities with School Food and Nutritional Security Council;54
cities decreased mortality rates;32
cities have opened new maternity beds;20
Children’s Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPSi) opened;The average percentage of live births whose mothers had seven or more prenatal The dissemination of results was made by means of a hot site launched in July (www.prefeitoamigo.org.br) to give visibility to managers who are dedicated and have fulfilled all the steps proposed over the four years management, achieving the targets set by Fundação Abrinq. Thus, the mayors who have carried out the best policies aimed at children and adolescents and contributed significantly to the improvement of the indicators of their cities, received the domestic recognition Child Friendly Mayor.
After the closure of the 6th edition, the planning started of the 7th edition of the Child Friendly Mayor Program. The actions guidelines for the years 2021 to 2024 were established and the program will continue mobilizing the cities’ managers to ensure that more and more children and adolescents have their rights guaranteed.
75%
in 2018.On Education:
35,676
jobs were created in cities’ childhood education (4 and 5 years);31,308
jobs were created in early childhood education centers (0-3 years);939
cities’ preschools were opened;430
cities’ day care were opened;105
cities increased enrollment in early childhood education coverage (0 to 3);85
cities have opened their daycare;77
cities have opened their preschools;75
cities decreased dropout rates in elementary school – final years.In Protection:
124
cities have defined procedures for care of confirmed cases of any kind of violence against children and adolescents;114
cities awarded with children identification and adolescents’ procedures in child labor;111
cities have defined the forwarding flow of complaints of any kind of violence against children and adolescents;61
cities have the Prevention and Combat Committee for Violence against Children and Adolescents set up and operating;61
cities have the Prevention and Eradication Committee of Child Labor;15
Assistance to Children and Adolescents Victims of Violence in operation.In Public Administration:
744
cities established the Children and Adolescents Budget (OCA) in 2017;501
cities established the OCA in 2018;407
cities established the OCA in 2019;173
cities carried out the preparation or revision process of their City’s Plans for Children and Adolescents (PMIAs) according to the guidance of Fundação Abrinq;28
cities’ management become regular and operational their respective City’s Funds for the Rights of Children and Adolescents (FMDCAs) with the Inland Revenue Service;10
cities rectified the FMDCA from 2017 to 2018 with Inland Revenue Service;18
cities rectified the FMDCA from 2018 to 2019 with Inland Revenue Service;The amount of allocations of income tax of individuals to FMDCAs regarding the
125
awarded in 2017 reachedBRL 1,517,012.02
- 1,477 allocations;The amount of allocations of income tax of individuals to FMDCAs regarding the
125
awarded in 2019 reachedBRL 9,570,722.79
- 8,726 allocations;Increase of