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Country: Peru
Organization: Asociación Cultural Teatrovivo
Sector Focus - Civil society
Year the initative began (yyyy) - 2008
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Project URL: http://www.artetransformador.net
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence? - To cross agendas between organizations and geographical areas of action from Latin American Art and Social Change Network in order to combat human trafficking.
Describe your innovation. What makes your idea unique and different than others doing work in the field? - Our initiative intends to create bonds between different organizations from the Latin American Art and Social Change Network and territorial projects that place art to the service of global causes, such as human trafficking in Latin America. The initiative would capitalize on the valuable experience of the institutions conforming the Network, as regards the prevention and protection of girls, boys, teenagers and young people who suffer from social exclusion and sexual violence. These institutions have designed and validated methodologies that use art and effective organization and citizenship, and have activities in which each country’s actors participate. The project has the enormous potential of involving many actors and at a regional level.
Levels of intervention: Delivery Model: How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing? - 1. Two organizations within the same geographical area, whether from the LA Network or not, will work in a coordinated action program in order to prevent Trafficking and help its victims, through the development of an educational and artistic tool –workshops, theater/dancing/music/poetry performances, and a communitary radio station-.
2. A third organization outside that geographical area will be chosen, also trained to combat Trafficking. 3. Another organization will be identified, from the Network, in order to perform the coach’s role, a facilitator of the process in order to obtain financing. 4. A working table will be organized in order to try to bind the government, one college focused on the management of knowledge and the media. 5. www.palabrastranquilas.ucsc.edu will be the basis of global dialogue on loca How do you plan to grow your innovation? - In this first stage, territories where trafficking can be found will be identified in Peru, together with the organizations that satisfy the required profile and have the necessary interest in order to become the promoter group.
We will create a space to refine the proposal, to give training in assistance management and the features each organization has will be analysed in order to see which areas each of them will be able to cover –prevention, protection, awareness, advocacy and political incidence-. The proposed combinations will be carried out, activities will be planned, and a management model will be systematized during a pilot period. In September, 2008, the proposal will be presented with representatives of the network in Lima, in the Festival del Circulo, in the Art and Transformation section, so that we can achieve the commitment of other countries to participate in the proposal and to be able to schedule the activities prior to its implementation. In a second stage, several activities will be taken up in the different countries in which the network has partners interested in the proposal. In a third stage, the network will have incorporated this intervention in the way of an action platform that will serve to combat Trafficking and other global problems. Do you have any existing partnerships, and if so, how do you create them? - We have partnerships with the Latin American Art and Social Change Network, with branches in Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, and Central America, including national networks that have relevant bonds with international co-operation institutions, federal and local governments, base organizations, governmental entities, the civil society and universities.
In Peru, with: La Tarumba, Bola roja, Arenas y Esteras, Vichama, Arpegio, La gran marcha de los muñecotes, and Generarte; ESC, Rímac Municipality, MIMDES (Peruvian Ministry of Women and Social Welfare), the Catholic University of Peru, OIT (the UN International Labour Organization), AIETI (Spanish Association for the Research and Specialization in Ibero-American Issues), AVINA, Swiss and Unified Save the Children, Art and Political Incidence Group (angeles D1, minkarte, drama e infant), Niños del Río, Acción por los niños, Trafficking Table (Ministry of Internal Affairs), International Organization for Migration, Human and Social Capital (CHS), El Pozo movement, IDEIF (Institute of Studies for Infancy and Family), International Youth Foundation, CESIP (Peruvian Center for Social Studies and Publications), CEPETI, Restinga de Iquitos, Vía Libre, CODENI Cuzco, CNR National Radio Coordinator. In Argentina, with: Mercedes Assorati, specialist in Trafficking and manager of Esclavitud 0 - El Otro Foundation; Sharon Daniels, from the University of California; the Palabras Tranquilas audiovisual exchange project; Michaelle Jean, president of the Canadian Department of http://www.ecoutedescitoyens.gg.ca/en/videos, and Esteban de Gori from University of Bs As. Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact. - Crossed agendas from network’s organizations, communities and local governments multiply the impact of our efforts on this global cause.
How many people have you served or plan to serve? - This field has not been completed. (166 words or less)
Please list any other measures of the impact of your innovation? - - Crossed agendas from the organizations, communities and governments from the region that help multiply the impact.
- Activation of the transference of skills-knowledge bond, to spread the network’s organizations knowledge in territorial projects. - Reducing gaps by work division and the combination of the institutions’ work. - Creating a platform of socio-political-cultural dialogue from a common experience at a regional level. - Acknowledging that art is a tool for social transformation, highlighting that Trafficking is a global conflict. - Taking up actions to enhance a protective culture of people’s rights.
Exactly who are the beneficiaries of your innovation? - Direct beneficiaries are young people, teenagers and children from communities at risk or those communities otherwise affected by Trafficking, agents of institutions that tackle this problem and that will become members or intervening groups with new resources for the prevention and protection of Trafficking victims. Also, the sensitized authorities who will be more involved in the issue. Indirect beneficiaries are the families, who will be informed and will have more knowledge and a better attitude and practices toward the protection of their children.
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)? - Since the Network was born, we have received support from the AVINA foundation, we have undertaken synergic travels to monitor our practices, achievements, difficulties and we have learnt lessons from them. Nowadays, our expenses are thus afforded, giving support to our branches in Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Central America. However, that support is not enough and that is why we have created a committee to tap resources from embassies, governments, companies and venture capitalists and obtain the financial aid we need to carry out activities in Latin America and Europe.
If known, provide information on your finances and organization - Annual budget;
Annual revenue generated; Number of staff: - What is the potential demand for your innovation? - We need financial support to implement the combination of activities and plans in every territory, to promote advocacy, awareness and training plans. We would also need financing to print the necessary materials and afford the salaries of a person that would manage and monitor our experience at a regional level and in every country.
In this first stage, we need to implement the model in Lima, Peru, and in two other places chosen to put into practice our proposals and systematize them as a model. What are the main barriers to financial sustainability? - There are co-operating institutions interested in our proposal; we should refine it in order to make it more simple. We need to achieve the commitment of, at least, 5 countries in Lima’s meeting in September, this year, in which the executive secretariat of the network will be present. Then, by carrying out the activities proposed, we will obtain the necessary funds.
What is the origin of this innovation? Tell us your story. - The Latin American Art and Social Transformation Network, with the support of AVINA Foundation, was founded by 24 artistic, social and cultural organizations from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Peru. Nowadays, Central America, Colombia and Uruguay are also increasingly-involved members. Each of these members-organizations have bonds with others in their own country (federal network), so that the total organizations involved with the Network is approximately 100. Also, other initiatives have already been identified (approximately 500 in Brasil), that are joining the Network.
One of the reasons why the Network was created is the lack of importance given in Latin America to art and culture within social development policies. There was a need to create partnerships to design innovative proposals that could have a great impact on those fields. We use esthetics and community creation tools as a means to change reality in favor of the creation of citizenship, social integration and the promotion of human rights. We also intend to guarantee the cultural action’s strength when fighting against poverty, exclusion and social violence. Please provide a personal bio. Note this may be used in Changemakers marketing material - Teatrovivo has become a partner of the Network, who has 20 years of experience in providing social aid to the least assisted sectors. We work with art and recreational activities in the CRIAR con Arte project. We provide children and teenagers from Lima with protection, through art, from sexual trade/exploitation. We have our own methodology, which has been validated. We create protecting networks, together with institutions from local and federal governments, that offer supplemental services in the fields of education, health, business and labor inclusion.
Contact Information:
Olba Bárcenas
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Una iniciativa como esta merece y debe tener todo el apoyo del mundo. El arte es un medio fabuloso para llegar a la conciencia de la poblacion. Solo informando y mostrando posibles soluciones a este grave problema, podremos lograr que todos y cada uno de nosotros seamos responsables de iniciar algun cambio a nivel personal primero, para convertirse en una reaccion en cadena, que luego provoque un cambio global. Mucha fuerte y positivismo que todo se puede!!
Mariella Alvarez
Cualquier iniciativa bien organizada, como la propuesta que presenta Teatro Vivo, que tenga por objetivo luchar y acabar contra la trata, o cualquier tipo de acción que vulnere los derechos humanos de las personas, debe ser apoyada y promovida.
Éxitos!
Hay tanto que hacer en nuestra región, tanta experiencia acumulada, tanto conocimiento y emoción no compartida que una propuesta como esta cae de madura. Es necesario empezar a compartir y aprender unos de otros. Lo novedoso de integrar el arte a esta iniciativa completa la pertinencia, originalidad y oportunidad de la propuesta. Apelar sólo a lo cognitivo, a la razón, en un tema tan sensible como la trata de personas siempre lo dejará incompleto; agregar el componente emocional, afectivo nos acercará más al cambio de actitud y a la toma de conciencia imprescindibles para que una propuesta sobre este tema sea trascendente y sostenible.
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Julio Moscoso
Project Manager
CEDRO
Articular redes multisectoriales para combatir la trata de personas me parece fundamental, más aún si se trabaja a partir de herramientas de tanto impacto como el arte y los medios de comunicación, que permiten sesibilizar y difundir mensajes que la propia poblacón puede generar.
Exitos
Me parece que este proyecto cumple con un doble propósito que es por un lado, llevar un beneficio a las poblaciones sometidas a esclavitud y trata y, por otro lado, mejorar la capacidad de las organizaciones sociales en la tarea de abocarse a causas globales. Las causas globales suelen ser complejas e involucrar diferentes problemáticas y, entonces, temáticas. La articulación de los saberes provenientes del arte educacion, con los saberes provenientes de las organizaciones dedicadas a derechos humanos, van a multiplicar el impacto de la acción.
Por otro lado, para lograr articular el trabajo de organizaciones en diferentes países, es importante generar afinidad e identificación entre las organizaciones intervinientes. En este caso, tenemos dos ejes para trabajar; identidad y empatía con la causa. Uno es el arte y el otro es la temática de la trata.
Estimada Olga,
te envío este mensaje de prueba
cariños
Patricia
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Gaston Wright
Director Changemakers Latin America and Global Fellowship
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public