MIDES works on 3 development routes with special emphasis on system outputs
The Director of Social Development of MIDES visited Cerro Largo within the framework of a national tour that he has been carrying out throughout the country collecting supplies, detecting needs, and at the same time holding meetings with different organizations.
This Directorate includes various areas such as Uruguay Grows with You, Educational Link, Productive Entrepreneurship, Rurality, Social Monotribute and Diversity among others.
“For us it is very important to be in contact with the territories. Beyond the fact that on a daily basis we have to be at the headquarters, we are interested in collecting the contributions of workers in all places. We are framing this tour in that first tour with exchanges with workers from the Directorate of Social Development” held the Mr. Nicolás Lasa.
The Directorate of Social Development of MIDES has 515 officials, which represents practically 25% of the Ministry’s officials in its different areas.
In the department of Cerro Largo there is the Uruguay Crece Contigo Team, a policy aimed at Early Childhood.
Lasa said at a press conference that a re-profiling of the Ministry of Social Development is in process. “We are not coming to refound anything, we are coming to continue with what needs to be continued, but it is also changing a perspective of giving the Ministry a much more community approach because we must respond to people, people who have family units, who live in neighborhoods and communities where, ultimately, in order to develop they also need the conditions of the environment to collaborate. It is not just about individual solutions.” he emphasized.
He announced that work is being done based on social development routes, placing special emphasis on the expenses of the MIDES systems, the expenses of streets, expenses of entities that need support, but that this support cannot be for life. “For this we must co-build capacities in the territories, with people, with families” he stated.
THE THREE ROUTES
The first route of development is that of parenting to protect childhood and adolescence that in Uruguay – according to Nicolás Lasa – are still very unprotected. “One in every 3 children is coming into this world in a situation of poverty. That is something that challenges us, that moves us and that pushes us to work” held.
The Director of Social Development of MIDES said that this reality is not the same in all departments, but as we move away from the south and approach the north the situation deepens and worsens.
He pointed out that Afro childhoods are much poorer than non-Afro ones. “This territorial component is essential to be able to read better and to be able to act” express.
The other routes are socio-educational inclusion and socio-labor inclusion with all the offer that the Ministry of Social Development has.
BUDGET REINFORCEMENT
The Directorate of Social Development received a budget reinforcement within the framework of the redistribution of resources that was made in the Budget Law recently approved in the National Parliament, not so much because of what was included in the articles, but because of an internal reorganization carried out by Minister Gonzalo Civila himself.
There they tried to prioritize two areas that had had a very large budget reduction during the last government period: socio-labor promotion and sociocultural promotion. “They had had a reduction of approximately 70% of the budget in the last 5 years and on this occasion we reinforced it because we believe that the graduation, exits and processes of autonomy of people are at stake” considered Mr. Nicolás Lasa.
