The Network of Municipalities in the South of Tenerife for Gender Equality is made up of Adeje, Arona, Fasnia, Arico, Granadilla de Abona, Guía de Isora, San Miguel de Abona, Santiago del Teide and Vilaflor de Chasna. This resource was created in 2011. In its first decade of operation, it promotes the development of equality policies in the region and improves the quality of local actions in this area, coordinating the resources of the nine municipalities that comprise it.
Thus, on the occasion of this tenth anniversary, the Network held an event in San Miguel de Abona, which brought together representatives of the nine municipalities that make it up, politicians and technicians who have been part of its history, members of the women’s associations of the south of Tenerife and people linked to active action for gender equality. An act that, framed in the awareness and sensitization campaign A South for equality, which has had the financial support of the Department of Equality and Prevention of Gender Violence of the Cabildo de Tenerife, the mayors delivered to the councilors and techniques of Equality, an acknowledgment for the work carried out and to encourage the Network of Municipalities of the South of Tenerife for Gender Equality to continue its work to achieve an egalitarian society.
Basis of work
The organization highlights that for a decade, the Network has made possible a work structure based on coordination, pooling and consensus among the Departments of Equality in the region, achieving the development of awareness-raising actions and interventions aimed at to the population in general and training for the public and professionals. In this macro they cite three Equality Meetings, the professional conferences dedicated to the construction of networks as a working tool and the gender perspective in the media, or the interprofessional table to address the care of minors who are victims of gender violence.
In its ten years of existence, the Red Sur “has established itself, surpassing municipalism and parties, as a reference resource in the Canary Islands in equality policies.” The group maintains that “it has served as a model and mirror for other initiatives.” In 2016, in recognition of his work, the Canary Islands Institute for Equality (ICI) awarded him the prize for good practices of local entities.
Recognition
The island councilor for Social Action, Marián Franquet, and the delegate councilor for Equality and Prevention of Gender Violence, Priscila de León, highlighted the work that these councils carry out in favor of equality. Both Franquet and De León assured that this network is an example of “the importance of collaboration between administrations to optimize resources and be more efficient, being able to develop actions in favor of citizens in areas such as equality, which would be impossible to individually.”
