Paraguay

Qom Peoples' Youth and Adult Literacy Project

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2010 – 2011
Name of organization in charge: Ministerio de Educación y CulturaDirección General de Educación Escolar Indígena (DGEEI)
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: local

Impact

?

Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: -
Policy Outcome: -

The Qom Peoples' Youth and Adult Literacy Project was a participatory and pedagogical proposal aimed at literacy in the indigenous language itself. Representatives of Qom people made the request. Between 2010 and 2011, the facilitators and assistants selected by each community held training workshops. In the first week, they developed the program together with a technical team of the General Directorate of Indigenous School Education (DGEEI), focusing on the concerns and interests of the facilitators and their communities. During the next three weeks, the facilitators developed the program in their respective communities. This helped to develop the reading and writing curriculum of the Qom language, as well as propel a community organization from a rights perspective. The results of the project were several: the valorization of the Qom language, developing literacy in that language amongst young people and adults, the elaboration of self-made didactic materials, as well as the strengthening of community identity and organization.

Institutional design

?

Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?

Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?

Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?

Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?

Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?

Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?

Formalization: only backed by a governmental program or policy
Frequency: single
Mode of selection of participants: restricted
Type of participants: citizens
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields no decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation