This experience is the result of a co-creation process between UNICEF Colombia and the City Management Office of the Barranquilla Mayor's Office within the Inclúyete+ strategy, which territorializes the inclusion, support and care model for children with disabilities and their families.
Recognition
UNICEF Colombia recognizes the leadership of the Barranquilla Mayor's Office through its City Management Office and the Inclúyete+ strategy, which makes the District a national reference for the local operationalization of the inclusion, support and care model, with a transformative approach to care and the rights of persons with disabilities, their families and caregivers.
How the model is operationalized
Every part of the model —approach, institutional capabilities and critical processes— is made concrete in operational routes within the Barranquilla Mayor's Office.
Inclúyete+ adopts the framework of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Public Policy on Disability and Social Inclusion, articulating early childhood, childhood and youth with the district offer.
Territorial reading by locality, gender, ethnicity and type of support required, with a focus on caregivers and households bearing disability extra costs.
Articulation between care, support for autonomy and social protection, moving beyond an assistentialist view of care.
Cross-referencing the national disability registry with district health, education and protection databases to identify households with disability and estimate extra costs by locality.
Reasonable accommodations in educational settings, public services and community spaces, with continuous training for Mayor's Office teams.
Combined offer of support for autonomy, caregiver relief, personal assistance and active intersectoral referrals.
A district intersectoral team operates the cycle: intake, characterization, individual support plan, offer activation, follow-up and closure, with traceability per household.
Articulation with the network of providers authorized under Resolution 1239 of 2022, as the entry point to district social protection.
The 3R strategy applied in Barranquilla: recognize, reduce and redistribute care work, with relief services and income routes.
Identification of extra costs, targeting beyond the national poverty index and exploration of results-based financing schemes.
Process milestones
Co-creation
UNICEF Colombia and the Barranquilla Mayor's Office define the scope of Inclúyete+ as the district bet on inclusion, support and care.
Design
The three capabilities and the critical processes are translated into operational routes for Mayor's Office teams and community partners.
Implementation
Progressive rollout of nominal case management and support services in prioritized localities.
Evidence
Documentation of the experience, lessons learned and evidence of the model's effectiveness with UNICEF.
Model evidence
UNICEF Colombia and the Barranquilla Mayor's Office are documenting the Inclúyete+ pilot to generate evidence on the effectiveness of the inclusion, support and care model, and to guide its scalability to other municipalities in the country.
Systematization of the co-creation, design and district implementation of Inclúyete+, with lessons for other territories.
Results of cross-referencing the disability registry with district databases, household identification and estimation of disability extra costs.
Indicators of coverage, quality of support, relief of unpaid care and intersectoral articulation.
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