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Last Friday, a workshop was held early in the morning on "Locating the Sustainable Development Goals in the municipalities' territories", in which members of several Cerro Largo municipalities participated.
At this training, Spanish expert Javier Cortés addressed some of the items of the programme that had been scheduled for the workshops on 12 and 13 March in Paraguay, an activity that was eventually suspended after the measures adopted by Paraguay and Uruguay to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Javier Cortés, an expert from the European Union who came to Cerro largo through the ADELANTE programme, worked yesterday together with the Mirada Ciudadana team to transfer the methodology for the localisation of the Agenda 2030.
This means that the municipalities will now include sustainable development in their planning and daily work, as they are the actors closest to the people. It is very easy to measure how they contribute to the fulfilment of these Sustainable Development Goals and of the Agenda 2030.
The Mirada Ciudadana project has held today, together with experts from the European Union's ADELANTE programme, a workshop called "Efficient communication to strengthen municipal management" aimed at representatives of the communication areas of municipalities from the Cerro Largo Government as well as officials from the various partner municipalities of the project.
The Red Calle Project participated in the 58th Session of the United Nations Commission for Social Development, which took place in New York City from 9 to 20 February 2020, and addressed the issue of homelessness and affordable housing. There, the UN adopted the first resolution that defines homelessness and urges member states to standardise their methods of measuring and collecting data that will allow them to assess the true magnitude of this global issue.
Within the framework of the Mirada Ciudadana Project, a workshop was held today to introduce the guides developed by the project's technical team, which deal with topics such as communication, citizen participation, the power of citizenry and the incorporation of the gender perspective from a practical point of view.
The Fifty-eighth Session of the Commission for Social Development of the United Nations Economic and Social Council is taking place in New York City, USA, from 10 to 19 February 2020. The priority Theme is: "Affordable housing and social protection systems for all to address homelessness".
The Mirada Ciudadana Project's coordinator and experts have been working on the preparation of the activities that will be carried out in February and March of this year.
It was held in the presence of Mayor Dr. Pablo Duarte together with directors and various authorities of institutions in the area, linked to the support of this section of the population. The Mirada Ciudadana Project contributed to the institutional strengthening work, in this case aimed at the Secretariat of the Elderly people and its Head, Mrs. Gloria Lucas. This card can be applied for by any person over 60 and brings benefits such as discounts on various purchases, tourism, accommodation, tickets to shows and so on, throughout the country as well as locally.
The Paper called "The Added Value of Triangular Cooperation - Lessons Learned from the ADELANTE Programme" was officially presented in Brussels on 27 January 2020. Representatives from Latin American and Caribbean countries, as well as from other regions and several Member States, together with a number of people from DEVCO directorates and units, and from the social, business and academic sectors crowded into DEVCO's Info Point to learn about the outcome of this OECD - European Union joint exercise.
The Virtual Training in Entrepreneurship and Innovation was held from September to November 2019 and conducted by the Universidad EAN (EAN University - Colombia).
