In the demands for an open government model, civil society organizations and actors demanded a gender perspective to make women visible in making public policies.
“It is necessary for open government to wear gender lenses so that all problems reach the different needs of women,” said Melissa Chaidez, technical secretary of the Civil Society Center in Mexico for Open Government (NOSC) at the workshop on Local Open Government, Gender and Sustainable Development, held this Friday in Chetumal, Quintana Roo.
In Mexico, there are 64 million women, who represent 51.2% of the population and, despite this, their problems are still relegated, even in commitments due to the demand for open government, as the governance model based on co-participation, transparency and accountability is called.
Chaidez highlighted that the gender perspective is not about favoring women in a general and exclusive way, but rather it is a tool for understanding and making visible the impacts of public problems that live according to their context.
“The experience of an indigenous woman is not the same as that of a woman from an urban area. That is why public policies must take this into account and identify the characteristics that women experience,” said the technical secretary at the workshop organized by the NOSC and the Institute for Access to Information and Data Protection of Quintana Roo (IDAIPQROO).
Peter Sharp during his participation on open government at the NOSC workshop.Photo: Patricia Ramírez
The workshop focused on public servants was also attended by Javier Moro Hernández, NOSC liaison in the States, and Peter Sharp Vargas, international consultant on open government.
“It's not enough to comply with a gender policy if you're not convinced of the importance of this,” Sharp Vargas said during his presentation.
The consultant also focused on presenting the values that open government must maintain, such as impact, quality and trust. Don't lose sight of the fact that open data is a dialogue, he insisted.
During the workshop, the audience also participated, who expressed their doubts and participated in dynamics to define and understand open government, the gender approach and sustainable development.
Finally, Javier Moro emphasized including collective work with groups that also live in a situation of vulnerability to official norms, such as indigenous people, people of African descent, with disabilities or people of sexual diversity, who are the ones who can actively participate in solving their problems.
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