imagine a Peruvian organization that
have 60 billion dollars of
income per year that has 1.5 million
of workers and having more or less
100 thousand branches throughout the entire
country
imagine that this organization
Peruvian has 30 million customers
direct or so is the state
Peruvian
but the state is not only awesome
because of its magnitude is also impressive
for the responsibility he has because
the state is in charge of all
citizens have opportunities
enough to be developed to leave
six years later I come
working on public policies from
in and today more than ever I am
convinced that public policies
they are the most real and concrete way and
powerful to transform the country and
bring development to millions of people
and I am also convinced that for
this happens the best people are required
possible for better talent within the
public politics
when I left university I had the
opportunity to work with muhammad
yunus
muhammad yunus is an economist of
Bangladesh that revolutionized the
microcredits to take them to
people with limited resources and that’s why
won the Nobel peace prize the
Government of Caldas that is a city
about eight hours of
Bogota in Colombia as part of its
public policies contacted him and
asked to help you solve
social problems and one of the
major social problems that
had in caldas was the malnutrition of
your children one in three children in
Caldas had poor nutrition or risk
of malnutrition
then we started to analyze and which
are the eating habits that have
the colombia
we realized that it was very easy
realize that Colombians
consume every day or almost all
the days
panela panela is a product made
based on sugarcane and that the
Colombians consume with coffee with
tea in dessert with milk
then we think he hears if they consume all
the days panela and have a problem of
malnutrition why it does not fortify anymore
panela is to say why not
we introduce these
micronutrients that Colombians the
Colombian children need to
develop the micronutrients are
small particles and which
our body does not work as per
example zinc
the vitamin a on land then good
we did not have any
experience in fortification of
food we only came up with this
idea and we contacted one of the companies
largest in the world in fortification
and we told them what we wanted to do and
they told us look, I have no idea if it is
possible but I can promise you what
lets try
then his step came to caldas
we did the tests took the
samples to bogotá and after some
two weeks or so they called us
remember to have received that flame and we
they said
we are surprised the results have
been much more successful than
we expected from 10
micronutrients that we have introduced
seven have managed to survive
adequate
then at that time it was possible to prove
that panela could be fortified and
a few months later it was already distributed
in some schools of caldas to
children and now that product has the
potential to eventually reach 250
thousand children of caldas and who knows
maybe to the 10 million children that
There is in Colombia
in that moment I learned the ability to
transformation that the
public politics
after a year living in Colombia
I decided to go back to Peru and enter
public sector to work for the ministry
of development and social inclusion that
just been created and there we had a
huge challenge
the challenge they gave us was how we created
a little
school feeding drama for 3.5
millions of children and a program of
school feeding that is nutritious
obviously that is based on the
dietary habits of children and
besides that it’s rich and that’s why in that
time the world bank has just
publish a study that showed that
good school feeding programs
designed implemented I will have two
effects
the first effect is to increase the
assistance of the children to class and the
second effect is to increase the
attention of the children during the square
then with that experience we travel
all over the country and we do a job
of field quite long and strong for
identify what were the customs
food in each of the regions
which to the traditions which were
the tastes and we divide the country into eight
food regions
then for example in huancavelica
we prioritize the consumption of Andean grains
and in the jungle we prioritize the consumption of
fish from the area
today some years have passed and this
program is a reality
that school feeding program
comes every day to 3.5 million
children
Then I had the opportunity to work
two and a half years in the ministry of
education and one of the keys
indispensable to transform the
education are teachers revalue
the teacher’s career
various studies show that a
school
The main quality factor are the
teachers
that’s why many people say that a
school is as good as good your
teachers
then we had to face the challenge
of how to revalue the teaching career
means this is how it attracts
the best high school students
so they decide to be teachers and then
those professors as he attracts them is for
to teach a public school and
then once they are in school
public as a cesc that are
motivated over 30 years and that
know that there is a meritocratic career
in which they can ascend
so we did it for example before not
there were not enough incentives to
that our best students of
secondary they said to be teachers now they
has created a scholarship
identifies those best students of
secondary and he pays them the whole career in
the best universities in the country to
who study to be teachers and thanks
to this scholarship
today there are more than a thousand students
are preparing for in a few years to be
teachers
besides the other huge challenge that
we had to face is how to generate
teacher salary incentives
because of course he does not think
enter the public race and not
they know how to ascend they do not know how it is
the procedure to improve your salary
in the year 2014
we did an assessment of promotion that
was the evaluation at that time the
biggest in the history of the race
teachers were 140 thousand teachers
the same day they were giving a
evaluation of those 32 thousand ascended and
they raised their salary and not little they went up
your salary at 30% and I think that
moment was a very important milestone for
the teachers because it was a test
concrete that they could ascend and
improve your salary based on your merit
and his talent and not based on other
conditions and a third great challenge that
We had to make the race
teacher is to improve the confidence that
there was between the teacher and the ministry
education that the truth is a
confidence that historically was low
because of course if you think about
some of you think of being a teacher
in a school five hours from the city
that feels lonely
the education minister does not arrive and
It is far away as it is a relationship of
distrust
so how did we make the
state the ministry education is
communicate better with those teachers and
how do we do if we take into account that
in the country we have 300 thousand teachers
located in 50 thousand schools throughout
of the country in two we got to thinking
what do we do what we do to communicate
better maybe we can create one or buy
tablets and distribute them or make talks
trainings send him letters he did not have
many ideas and we started to investigate
what other countries did and we saw that
other countries use text messages
and for example in other countries they sent
t messages
to your farmers to tell them
what the price of the products each
day
then we said obvious not because what
only you need is your cell phone and not
you need it to be a smart cell phone
you’re not online or even
you do not even need to have a signal all
the time because at some point in the
week
the teacher will have a signal and will take
the text message
then we did that we created a
platform that exists today that is called
we are teachers is a very platform
simple in which any teacher of
a public school can register
and three types of messages arrive
motivational messages gave messages with
useful tips and they had messages
informative and today that platform has
200 thousand registered teachers who arrive
about two million students and
what kind of messages do we send
example through surveys we
we knew that teachers would have
problems in Spain in the column for
be long standing
then imagine again that they are
that teacher who is five hours in a
classroom that feels distant and that hurts
your back and suddenly your cell phone and a
text message with your name that says
and gives you advice on how to do
that your back pain resolution
then with small actions like
those
you are improving trust and
relationship between the state and teachers
I was breaking those emotional barriers
and physical that exists now I have the
opportunity to work in the
Presidency of the Council of Ministers and
one of the great challenges that we have
position is how to improve the relationship
between the state and the citizens how
do to create a kinder state
more empathic more real
or how to make the state
adapt to citizens and not that
citizens have to adapt the state
it’s not one thing we did was
identify a series of procedures that
they could be simplified or even
procedures that could be eliminated
and those procedures have already been simplified
and on average a year they will impact or
help improve the life of 1.5 million
of Peruvians and I want to tell you two
examples
the first example is probably
many of you have gone to a
institution
have to do some paperwork have their
tail when they get to the window they have
said your copy of dni if they remembered
take the copy of the ID as the delivery
and if they did not remember they have to leave the
public institution look for a
photocopier that is next to take him out
copy bring to do the queue again and
deliver the copy of the ID
but if you start thinking there and
what does the state need?
the copy of my ID if I give the number
the state is the state already has the base
of data and has the information of
Then, we have forbidden the
public institutions ask the
citizens
copy of ny and this not only helps the
citizen because he stops making a
absurd process but also perhaps in
some months we can calculate how many
trees
we are saving the year for less
absurd copies of ny
[Applause]
the second procedure that has
very impacted is that when one
has a family member who passes away and wants
do some procedure like for example
transfer of vines needs to take
a death certificate
that makes sense but what happens is
that you went with your death certificate and
I said no no no no is issued
a year ago you have to update the
then probably that is one of
the most absurd procedures and
bizarre that can be exist
because I have to update a game
of death or as if the the
condition of the deceased was to
change and that’s something that I have
understood that so far has not happened
so obviously we said forbidden
that the state or that the stations
Public Citizen asked him
update your death certificate in
the game based on a relative
a few days later he wrote a
person with whom I had already worked
and he told me how that procedure had
helped
she told me that her father had
deceased and he had to do some
procedures and they asked for this blessed
updated function game and I
He said that it not only annoys him
do the procedure every time but every time
that she updated that game of
death grieves him
he remembered the death of his father and this one
it was a very real sadness very human and
make a sadness that the state could
solve and already solved and at that time
I thought and I realized that some of
the most powerful reforms that
can do are the reforms of meaning
common are those reforms or projects or
proposals that one says no
answer back
obviously not that and definitely should be
do
there are many things that your government that are
of common sense but not yet
does
It’s been six years since I’ve been
working on public policies from
in and today more than ever I am
convinced that public policies
they are the best and most powerful mechanism
that we have as Peruvians to
our hands to transform life
of millions of people are the best
mechanism that we have
to help people meet their
public policy dreams well
designed and implemented are those
they will take us to be a country
developed
I also learned in these years what
is the meaning and the raison d’être of
public policies and
public policies have to eliminate
the backpack with which the Peruvians
Public policies are born
what to do that does not matter if you were born in
an urban or rural area that does not matter
the socioeconomic level of your parents
that I care that you learned to speak
in one language or the other that does not matter if
your parents were educated or not
nothing matters that and that it is enough to be Peruvian
and have been born in our country to
have enough opportunities to
be developed
if we agree that the state has that
great capacity we will have to consider
also in that the best people in the country
it has to be within the state
Facing that challenge
from the trenches because the truth I
I ‘m going to confess something if the people who
is in the buildings of the state not
Do what you have to do
nobody is going to do it for them that’s not what
will solve even the organisms
and international NGOs and industry
private and the state fails the whole country
it hurts and that’s happening every
I see more and more talented people motivate
incorporating the state working in
public policies and these six years
I have seen as groups of officials
talented and committed public
can really generate
transformations to millions of people
Now I have to confess that it is not
easy is not easy and many times it is
frustrating
many times the projects do not advance to
speed does not sometimes
reform they have and it’s not easy
because one is in an environment
political and there is opposition and you do not know
where or how or when are you going to
criticize but it’s worth worth the
pity and it’s happening that every time they’re
more people who are incorporating the
been and I do not know maybe this is the new
trend
If you think about it, do some
years, the trend in Peru and the
world was
entrepreneurs not the stags after
the trend was for entrepreneurs
social and maybe now the new
trend is for entrepreneurs since
the public sector
today we have all the tools to
our hands to make the big
transformations that Peru needs and
it only depends on us if we want it
do or not
thank you very much
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