PROJECT CISC ENTREPRENEURSHIP, QUALIFICATION, SPORTS, CULTURE AND DIGITAL INCLUSION FOR SOCIAL REINTEGRATION
The CISC Project has its focus on the implementation of actions in the areas of entrepreneurship, professional qualification, sports, digital inclusion and culture to promote human development. One of the main activities is the direct referral of participants to the labor market, employment and income generation. We seek to enhance and strengthen relationships with institutions, community associations and opinion leaders as well as integrate and / or interfere at the formulation and implementation of public policies.
We envision a more humane and egalitarian reality, where minorities have more opportunities and socially discriminated groups are included in the society.
About You
About You
First Name
Ronaldo Antonio
Last Name
Miguel Monteiro
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About Your Organization
Organization Name
Centro de Integração Social e Cultural – CISC “Uma Chance”
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Organization Country
Brazil, RJ
Country where this project is creating social impact
Brazil
Is your organization a
Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
More than 5 years
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Innovation
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PROJECT CISC ENTREPRENEURSHIP, QUALIFICATION, SPORTS, CULTURE AND DIGITAL INCLUSION FOR SOCIAL REINTEGRATION
What change do you want to bring to the world?
The CISC Project has its focus on the implementation of actions in the areas of entrepreneurship, professional qualification, sports, digital inclusion and culture to promote human development. One of the main activities is the direct referral of participants to the labor market, employment and income generation. We seek to enhance and strengthen relationships with institutions, community associations and opinion leaders as well as integrate and / or interfere at the formulation and implementation of public policies.
We envision a more humane and egalitarian reality, where minorities have more opportunities and socially discriminated groups are included in the society.
What are the primary activities of your project?
The project works in the development of actions to promote the full social reintegration of inmates and former prisoners, as well as young people in the fulfillment of educational measures and their families, and consequently in reducing recidivism and criminal acts. The training of professionals for the development of activities in the prison system is also part of our work that includes:
Entrepreneurship: we encourage the practice of innovative entrepreneurship for job and income generation for former convicts. Sponsored by Petrobras since 2006, the Incubator provides managerial and entrepreneurial trainings, monitors and supports small businesses, trains and referral to the labor market the participantes and articulates the dissemination of the methodology to other states.
Vocational Training: training of young people in meeting educational measures through workshops for baking, painting building, market practices, blacksmithing, sewing, etc. Additionally, professional training workshops for families of young people.
Sport: the development of sports for young people in the fulfillment of educational measures through the activities of dancing, football, soccer, handball and swimming.
Digital Inclusion: Basic and advanced computer courses to promote social inclusion of young people, former prisoners, families and community.
Culture: support and encourage local cultural events.
What is innovative about your initiative? How is it a new contribution to the field?
The methodology was developed to minimize the drastic effects of the situation of discrimination and social and professional exclusion they participants of the project are submitted. Just as an example, the high rate of recidivism Brazil estimated, according to DEPEN in 80%.
The CISC Project was created from experiences, needs and knowledge built by prisoners. It is therefore an innovative initiative for the development of social and economic role which aims to break the cycle " prison- freedom-recidivism" through the qualification and inclusion of such professionals in the labor market and the creation of new possibilities work.
The Project does not work just the economic sphere, but it is an element that contributes to changing the social framework and shows that through some serious action is possible to achieve social change. This contribution is what helps us to understand the importance of the project, and the creation of cooperation networks.
Institutions such as the AfroReggae and the Nelson Mandela Institute, play no role in the entrepreneurial perspective but with the proposal to establish cooperative network among participants. CISC Project seeks to involve families with psychological, social service, education, digital inclusion, culture, leisure, sport and entrepreneurial training programs and employment.
What stage is your project in?
Operating for more than 5 years
Tell us about the community that you engage? eg. economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts.
The Center for Cultural and Social Integration - CISC "One Chance" is a Civil Society Organization of Public Interest (OSCIP) based in the neighborhood of Tribobó, Sao Goncalo, Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro, a city of approximately 1.4 million inhabitants.
Tribobó has an estimated population of 40,000 inhabitants and is divided into several sub-neighborhoods, areas with very low income and vulnerable population with problems such as scarcity of urban water supply and electricity supply, lack of public transport and environment problems. Similarly, there are innumerable problems related to areas of public health, education, paving, sanitation and lack of spaces for culture and leisure. Formal research institutes also indicate a presence of about 70% of african descent in the region.
Tribobó is the second region in the state of Rio de Janeiro, with a greater number of former convicts. These, as already mentioned, representing the leading community / public interacts with the CISC Project: former convicts, convicts, young people in the fulfillment of educational measures, families and groups alike. This perspective is reinforced also by the participation of large numbers (70%) of black, brown, immigrant and, in increasing numbers of women.
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
Ronaldo Monteiro has a career of 16 years working at the Third Sector, plus another 6 years in education. He is a former convict, where he remained for 13 years. Monteiro kept a far relationship with his family and began to develop of actions for children that were visiting their relatives at the prison. The work extended also to family members of inmates, through Project Child, where they were offered activities such as workshops, puppet theater and literature for children visiting their imprisoned family members. Adults later also participated in the activities undertaken with the project "Re-socialization, Awareness and Citizenship for qualificatio". Other initiatives focused on the Environment and for Digital Inclusion in partnership with the Committee for Democracy in Information Technology (CDI), were implemented.
The inspiration for the development of social enterprises, with the formal institution of CISC in 2002, came from a demand of the convicts involved at the several iniciatives leaded by Monteiro. Later, with the support of Petrobras, Monteiro and a group of 16 managers of social intervention projects spread throughout Brazil defined the the proposal that best met the needs of men and women at the prison and former prisoners, acting also as a preventive measure for the reintegration of young people in the fulfillment of educational measures
Social Impact
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Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured
CISC Project has been successful in applying social technology that, from the promotion of innovative solutions for economic development and income generation, has been promoting the consolidation of citizenship and inclusion in the labor market, and generating jobs and income, reducing recidivism crime (80% in Brazil and 3% among direct participants).
The actions are expanded, initially they were focused on former convicts, family and community. Then for prisoners with access to training before leaving the prison system, then the young offenders and their families. Currently, we carry out professional training and implementation of the methodology in 10 states.
The actions have given credibility to the public, family and public agencies. This has enabled the implementation of activities in different prisons and encouraged new projects.
The project has been featured in media spaces, resulting in the spread and multiplication of proposals, both nationally and internationally, at the same time, awakened awareness about the importance of actions for these groups and public policy.
One result is the expansion of partnerships and contacts with institutions like the FGV and Ashoka, among others, and recognition of organs as the Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration, the National Council of Justice, Court of Criminal Executions and institutions of the 2nd and 3rd sectors.
Initially the "CISC Project" worked with 125 participants directly and indirectly, today, the initiative has more than 8,000 direct and indirect participants. With the scale already in development, it is estimated to reach 5,000 per year.
How many people have been impacted by your project?
1,001- 10,000
How many people could be impacted by your project in the next three years?
More than 10,000
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
Through training and institutional planning for scale realized with Ashoka / McKinsey, and training for the transfer of social technology developed by the institution today involving 30 multipliers working in the areas of Justice, Public Safety and Education in regions such as the Federal District and the states of Bahia, Sao Paulo, Espirito Santo, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Alagoas and Ceará. Our main goal is to impact 5000 direct participants / year
Sustainability
What barriers might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?
Fatores políticos, tecnológicos e macroeconômicos como também a ausência de parceiros e patrocinadores antes do prazo de consolidação das empresas sociais podem inviabilizar o planejamento já executado. O remédio seria a redução das ações e custos previstos, aumentando, em contrapartida, o prazo para o alcance das metas.
Tell us about your partnerships
Partnerships are extremely important because of the specificity of the public with which the project interacts. Without the partnership of the prison system, for example, we would not have access to prisons. Likewise, the support offered by technology in social networks provide greater visibility and help us to plead for new public policies.
Another example was the planning for the scale that we participate with Ashoka / McKinsey. This work has shown that creating a decentralized management is the best alternative for increasing the number of participants in our project, thus reducing the risk of failure.
Today we have 21 formal partners, and 12 others in the process of formalization and experience shows us it is impossible to impact players whose actions are prisoners, former convicts and juvenile offenders, except with the support of partners.
Current annual budget of project, in US dollars
More than $1 million
Explain your selections
The sustainability of the project, which comprises the five main areas of action (entrepreneurship, professional, sport, social inclusion and culture), is guaranteed by institutions in the first, second and third sectors that now account for U.S. $ 800mil (companies) U $ 460 000 (state government) and $ 80,000 (federal government).
How do you plan to strengthen your project in the next three years?
We aim to reach the number of 10 social enterprises, all producing by the end of 36 months, thus ensuring the sustainability of "CISC Project." As already mentioned, 100% of the funds come from partners.
Today, we have created already seven social enterprises. With resources from the social enterprises it is estimated that all the fixed costs of operating the project are covered. The variable cost will be assessed and managed according to the actions taken
Challenges
Which barriers to employment does your innovation address?
Please select up to three in order of relevancy to your project.
PRIMARY
Lack of skills/training
SECONDARY
Restrictive cultural norms
TERTIARY
Other (Specify Below)
Please describe how your innovation specifically tackles the barriers listed above.
By fostering entrepreneurship and professional qualifications of the project participants, the massive media exposure and especially the development of social networking technologies for the promotion of a healthy social culture. Moreover, the incentives provided by law today by the National Justice Council (CNJ), through which we have been able to overcome such obstacles. The participants' self-esteem and social responsibility are also some of the approaches of the "Project CISC".
Are you trying to scale your organization or initiative?
If yes, please check up to three potential pathways in order of relevancy to you.
PRIMARY
Influenced other organizations and institutions through the spread of best practices
SECONDARY
Grown geographic reach: Within host country
TERTIARY
Other (please specify below)
Please describe which of your growth activities are current or planned for the immediate future.
Workshops and consultancies
We concluded the training of multipliers for the dissemination of the proposal in eight states, including representatives of the first, second and third sectors (state, private and third sector organizations). We have prepared the pilot project suitable for the local reality of three states (MatoGrosso, Sao Paulo and Ceara). In the first half of July, the scale will start in Campinas / SP. At the invitation of government agencies and institutions interested in our inclusive proposal , we performed also workshops and consulting in several Brazilian states.
Do you collaborate with any of the following: (Check all that apply)
Government, Technology providers, NGOs/Nonprofits, For profit companies, Academia/universities.
If yes, how have these collaborations helped your innovation to succeed?
Access to direct participants (inmates and former convicts) is allowed only in thanks to a partnership with the government, because 60% of them are still under the tutelage of the state. A social technology that today we are transferring to multipliers eight states was transferred to us by social interveners and other experts as Giovani Harvey (Afro-Brazilian incubator / Palmares Institute of Human Rights) and Tiao Rock, among others, allowing us to improve the our work until we have the methodology we use today. Some social organizations, through the networks that we participate today, help us covering some demands we need for effectiveness and impact of the project, such as rehabilitation centers, shelters and institutions to support qualification and certification of participants
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