SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 10. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo, through the ‘Tenerife Isla Solidaria’ program managed by the public company Sinpromi, supports a total of 562 third-sector entities on the island.
Since 2019, the increase in volunteering registered in the program has been 87%, going from 1,658 to 3,105 volunteers who collaborate directly with the different groups.
The CEO of Citizen Participation and Diversity, Nauzet Gugliotta, explained during the presentation of the ‘Tenerife Solidarity Island Action Plan’ for 2022 that the total scope of the actions launched from the program covers almost 220,000 people.
“This data has behind a reach of more than 10,000 direct users of our services and campaigns, although it is difficult to calculate the real impact, due to interactions with our applications, networks or queries, we can say that the impact is one fifth of the island of Tenerife,” he detailed.
This increase is reflected in the boost in terms of investment that the Social Action area has made to the program.
“Tenerife Isla Solidaria has a budget of more than 1.2 million euros for 2022, which represents an increase of 133% compared to 2021, and three times more than in 2019, at the beginning of the mandate, in which the Government Pedro Martín has staked the first budget up to the current one,” he said.
Ascensión Bacallado, insular director of Innovation, Planning and Social Action Strategy, detailed as one of the bets for 2022 within the program the “strengthening of tools such as digital transformation, digitization in work processes, which will make it more efficient and resources are better managed.
Along these lines, he indicated that “the bet extends to the third sector because the execution of public policies in terms of Social Action of the Cabildo cannot be achieved without the leading role of third sector entities.”
With the direct collaboration of the Technological Institute of Renewable Energies (ITER) “we intend to develop a set of objectives that will facilitate the digital transition that the third sector must necessarily carry out like the rest of society and overcome the existing digital divide”, he valued Bacallado, who also recalled that “a set of accompanying actions have been designed that will provide sustainability, from digital volunteering to the development of free software tools.”
GENERATE SUPPORT NETWORKS
Thus, “the generation of spaces and support networks” between the entities is sought, as well as actions of “accompaniment, training and awareness that will allow social inclusion and other values to be developed as well”.
To launch this digital transformation of the entities, a diagnosis will be carried out in which the processes and services provided by the entities will be analyzed and how they are from a technological point of view in terms of management and the tools they have will be assessed.
From that moment on, the plan foresees the digitization of work processes, the definition of the digital tools that are necessary and gain in management autonomy.
Among the lines of action for this year, this project of digital transformation of the entities stands out, but also information and advice, the promotion of volunteering, training through the School of Volunteering and Associations and the Service of Attention to Migrants , of which a hundred entities attached to the program are already part.
