Políticas 2024
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Esta propuesta describe un nuevo sistema para los comités y centros que conectan a los miembros de People Powered entre sí y con los programas y actividades de la organización. People Powered es un vehículo para que las organizaciones y defensores de la democracia participativa creen recursos, programas e infraestructura globales para respaldar su trabajo. Nuestros comités y centros son los espacios para que los miembros hagan este trabajo. Nuestro sistema actual está desactualizado y no coincide con nuestros programas actuales ni con el trabajo de nuestro plan estratégico. Esta es una propuesta que los miembros discutirán, revisarán y votarán durante nuestro proceso anual de toma de decisiones para miembros, People Powered Decides.
Contexto
- Cambios de membresía a partir de la planificación estratégica: en las discusiones de planificación estratégica de 2023, los miembros, el personal y la junta directiva de People Powered priorizaron dos cambios amplios en el sistema de membresía y la organización:
- Ampliar la membresía para incorporar miembros individuales , profesionales gubernamentales, investigadores y defensores, junto con organizaciones locales y nacionales.
- Ajustar los espacios para la participación enfocada de los miembros , incluidos centros regionales y comités temáticos.
- Reestructuración programática a partir de la planificación estratégica: People Powered ha experimentado con muchos recursos y programas en sus primeros tres años. En nuestro nuevo plan estratégico limitamos el enfoque a un conjunto de recursos y actividades prioritarios que han tenido el mayor apoyo e impacto. Esto nos permite alinear nuestros comités miembros con estas prioridades.
- Aprendiendo de los centros regionales iniciales : People Powered lanzó sus dos primeros centros regionales en 2022, en dos regiones específicas (África francófona; y Europa central y oriental y los Balcanes). Descubrimos que sería difícil sostener este modelo de muchas subregiones a escala y que teníamos una mayor necesidad inicial de centros continentales que pudieran incluir e involucrar a más miembros y permitir que el personal se comunicara más fácilmente con los miembros en las principales regiones. . Después de consultar con los miembros africanos, decidimos hacer la transición del centro de África francófona a un centro de África y priorizar el establecimiento de centros en las cuatro regiones prioritarias del PP: África, Asia, Europa del Este y América Latina.
- Transición de un enfoque específico en PP a un enfoque más amplio en la democracia participativa : People Powered surgió del Global PB Hub que se formó en 2019. Si bien hicimos la transición a un enfoque más amplio en la democracia participativa, hemos mantenido la antigua estructura heredada del Global PP. Hub, siendo las Juntas Globales de Investigación y Profesionales de PB nuestras únicas juntas programáticas. Involucramos a estas juntas en discusiones sobre cómo hacer la transición más allá de esta antigua estructura, y hubo un apoyo abrumador para cambiar a una nueva estructura que no priorizara de manera desproporcionada el PP.
Propuesta de Cambios
- Alinear los centros regionales con las regiones prioritarias : centrarse primero en establecer centros regionales en las cuatro regiones prioritarias de People Powered. Considere la posibilidad de establecer centros en otras regiones una vez que se establezcan los primeros cuatro.
- Alinear los comités temáticos con el plan estratégico: consolidar muchos comités ad hoc y de largo plazo diferentes en un nuevo conjunto de comités temáticos de largo plazo que coincidan con los recursos, programas y actividades de nuestro nuevo plan estratégico . Descontinuar las Juntas Globales de PP y cambiar a comités más pequeños que se centren en áreas de trabajo específicas, a través de diferentes tipos de democracia participativa. Garantizar que la forma siga a la función: que tengamos los comités que necesitamos para el trabajo que pretendemos realizar, para ayudar a realizar ese trabajo y para proporcionar un propósito claro a los miembros del comité.
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Conversación con Carolin Hagelskamp
Is there a limit on how many people can join a committee? Is says that the committees should be smaller than the boards. For former research board members, the natural shift would be to sign up for the "research committee" --- is that intended? There is a lot of interest in research and many researchers among members - are they all supposed to end up in the research committee? It seems perhaps that thematic committees around youth PB, citizen assemblies etc. are missing where former researchers and practitioners would find a new home (aside from playbook and digital participation).
Also, what kinds of resources can the organisation invest in each committee? Will all committees be lead by a central staff person? Will there be resources for getting certain work done, e.g. designers that can help making research findings look good?
These are good questions. Personally, I would imagine that some but not all PB research board members would join a research committee, but this would also require non-PB researchers.
A key question for me is what amount and scale of committees can PP staff realistically support, to make the committees a meaningful and productive experience. Maybe one benchmark would be to not have more committees than we have staff members, so that there is generally one dedicated staff point person per committee. I feel pretty confident that we could support that. When individual staff are accountable for multiple committees we have more often struggled to follow through.
Regarding resources for the work (like graphic design), at this point we have resources allocated for some committees through specific project funding. But beyond that, we don't have extra discretionary resources at this point.
Conversación con Alberto Ford
Acuerdo en general con la propuesta de reforma de la estructura de gobierno. Me sumo a las preguntas de Carolin. Agrego mi interés en brindar un lugar más claro a la experimentación y la co-creación de nuevas ideas y prácticas de democracia participativa (tal vez dentro del comité de desarrollo de capacidades en la dirección esrtratégica 1).
Gracias por tu comentario, Alberto. De acuerdo que es muy importante crear estos espacios para co-crear, hablar y desarrollar nuevas ideas y prácticas de la democracia participativa. Estaremos revisando donde integrarlos.
Creo que esto también puede venir de los miembros que estan desarrollando nuevas prácticas y pueden utilizar infrastructura de PP para obtener apoyo de otros miembros y tener conversaciones. También hay organizaciones que estan haciendo este tipo de experimentos o tienen laboratorios, como Extituto de Politica Abierta, para innovar o integrar practicas que no son reconocidas, muchas veces por venir del Sur Global.
Note: the ''Playbook'' and ''Digital Participation'' committees are part of the ''thematic'' committees, not part of the ''Ad- Hoc work teams and committees'' as stated in the table above.
Conversación con Fildzah Husna Amalina
I'd like the idea of setting up new hubs and committees! Maybe some questions to consider: how can we somehow integrate the hubs with the committees and ad-hoc teams so that the hubs could also support the strategic plan? As maybe some members want to participate in both the hub and committee, or some want to choose to focus on either?
Also it would be great if we can encourage more teams of members/organizations to form new ad-hoc committees along the way, maybe something thematic or related to a specific scope of work they want to promote.
This is a great point, Fildzah! Some members have also mentioned that we should connect more the work of the regional hubs with the programs and resources that PP is creating. I agree we should encourage or set up more cross collaborations between regional hubs and committees.
About the new ad-hoc or thematic committees, wondering how to encourage members to self-initiate them, coordinate and maintain these committees? Since staff might not have enough capacity to manage them
Conversación con Yen-Ting Hsu
Would it be useful to have a committee for regional hubs if it is not under the governance committee? I think it will also be precious that regional hubs are learning from each other. PP can also discuss and develop policies for all the regional hubs in that committee.
Me parece muy importante que los hubs regionales se conecten de alguna manera y de modo regular porque uno de los valores de People Powered es su alcance global, la oportunidad que da a los miembros de conocer otras regiones. De modo que, aunque me gustan los hubs regionales porque se pueden hacer actividades más contextualizadas y se facilitan quizá por el idioma, es muy importante que haya conexión entre ellos. Está función podría tenerla un comitee, o el staff pero sería bueno que esté pensado.
Thanks Yen-Ting and Rocio for your comments!
We are planning to have a committee or at least we will have monthly meetings with coordinating organizations, where the idea is to keep improving the work and structure of the regional hubs and define how PP will support you better. Additionally, as Yen-Ting mentions to have an space for coordinating organizations to share lessons and find opportunities for collaboration.
Conversación con Ervyn Kaffah
I would like to get information regarding Hub development. Are there any guidelines or models offered for work patterns in each hub and how the structure relates to head office?
This includes which unit will guide or support the development of the hub. It might be more effective to appoint a manager under the PP Director who will take care of hub development.
There should be experience from previous hub development. Is there anything we can learn too? thank you
These are great points, Ervyn, thank you!
We are working on those guidelines and defining the relationship with PP. We are integrating internal and external lessons. Additionally organizations participating in the residencies, developed a regional hub started kit.
About support and development, Greta and I, as community building area will be in charge of the regional hubs.
Conversación con Francesca
Think this is a really good policy. I would like to see in the future a regional HUB added that includes the UK geographically but understand that priority needs to be given to proposed regions as identified presently. I like the introduction of the Capacity Building Committee as this is something that comes up within practice at every strategic level in work related to democracy and community development. I also think mentoring sits well within this committee.
Thank you for your comments and suggestions, Francesca.
As you mentioned, the priority is regions in Global South, but I agree that is important to also establish hubs in other regions. We are thinking about starting with regional meetings with the regions that haven't developed a hub, and try to raise funds to make them hubs.
It would be great to have you in the Capacity Building committee :)
Maybe we need team to collecting and matriculate any inisiatives, innovate, methode, tools, platform etc. that can be scale-up in the region or for another region..
Conversación con daniel schugurensky
Regional hubs: Hopefully the main office of the regional hub can rotate every 3 years. For instance, in Latin America the office could rotate from Mexico to Colombia to Brazil to Chile to Argentina, etc. (depending on local capacity and other factors). Hopefully the first year would be for establishing online connections, the second to organize a meeting, and the third to write a report on the state of participatory democracy in the region. Hence, every 3 years PP would have several regional reports on the state of participatory democracy in the world.
it sounds like a fantastic idea
Muy buena idea!
Thank you for your suggestions, Daniel. We are defining the number of years of the term that the coordinating organizations will lead the work of the hub. Making sure that the term can allow them to do substantial work but also that other organizations (based in different countries) can lead it.
Perhaps start planning potential Western European hub and North American hub in the near future?
I really like this direction and fully support it! Above all, I like the simplified structure and the emphasis on Regional Hub development.
I wonder if it is worth distinguishing ad hoc committees in the overall institutional struture. I understand that they are project-based, new ones may come. So I would emphasise more the main committees.
A small comment, it may be due to the language context, but after a first glimpse of the main committees, I missed one that is directly responsible for the relationship with the members, for supporting them, contacting them, looking for new ones. Now I see that these activities are embedded in Governance.
This all are very good points.
1. Can we make sure that PP will share an quick evaluation report on first experience of regional hub in Africa francophone and in East european?
2. Is it possible to support the new continental regional hub to mobilize funds for more in person activities ? Because building democracy needs today to have critical, strong and sustainable mobilization of actors who are really on the democracy area.
3. For communication commitee, PP can see how to add journalist with international media to communicate on Participatory democracy, it will be a good way for better learn on what are new democracy practices in the world.
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