SI LIVE Pecha Kucha - Maria Elisa Bernal, Latin America and the Caribbean
1. UN Headquarters
N.Y
Economic and social sustainable
development of Latin America and
the Caribbean.
2. ECLAC’s definition of social innovation is:
• New ways of doing tasks, new tasks, new ways of execution or management,
• Better Cost – efficiency relation than in traditional models,
• Have the potential to be replicated in the country originated as well as in
other countries of the region,
• Have proved its financial and political sustainability
• Have the possibility of becoming public policy,
• Have impacts on the poverty determinants,
• Have the potential to reduce discrimination and exclusion,
• Very important to ECLAC : promoting and strengthening the participation of the
community, as a contribution to citizenship and therefore the strengthening of
democracy.
3. Today there are more and more
governments - national, intermediate
and local -, civil society and
Universities who are working and promoting
social innovations process to
solve new and traditional problems.
4. The Region is extremely creative We never have had a true Welfare State
Social spending in the region has increased and it has had a
countercyclical behavior.
Poverty and indigence poverty have been reduced.
The quality or coverage of education or health
programs, income generation, or youth programs,
still has enormous gaps and is where our
population faces serious problems.
5. Arisen from civil society,
communities or a virtuous
combination of these two
Generally emerges as a response to a
crisis or
extreme poverty in any of its
determinants.
In the productive projects,
it developed associative
models.
6. Usually promote partnerships with
government -at different levels - civil
society, unions and even with the private
sector.
Generally received external financial
support, national or international.
The consolidation
period is at least
5 years.
7. The scale-up of the innovative model and therefore its ability to affect large
proportions of the population is very low.
The scale-up could be achieved when this new model becomes
public policy, from the local to the national level.
But ………… unfortunately, very few governments, do that.
Another way to achieve the scale up of social innovations is through
the actions of the civil society.
It could and should use innovative models already tested in their tasks.
Universities could play a key role in the social innovation process and
scaling up. => For example, supporting the evaluation of innovations and
then widely disseminating the results to promote its use in other
locations and contexts.
8. Example of social innovation in
education
Hospedaje estudiantil en familia
(Family Housing for Students),
Fundación Pueblo, Bolivia
