Indietro Barcelona updates its Intercultural Plan

In July 2021, Barcelona’s second Intercultural Plan for 2021-2030 was presented. The new plan provides an updated analysis of the city context and responds to the latest developments in the field of intercultural policies. The plan was adopted together with government measures to “advance towards interculturalism,” making it both an intercultural strategy and an intercultural action plan. It includes the definition of its strategic vision as well as a set of actions for implementation. At the strategic level, it defines five strategic axes based on the principles of interculturality. Within these axes, the plan identifies 26 specific objectives and 106 specific measures which provides a strong link between the strategic objectives and tangible actions and measures to be implemented.

The city is supporting its plan with the necessary human and financial resources. The interculturality team in Barcelona has increased from two interculturality professionals in 2010 to 12 in 2020. The total budget for government measures to advance towards interculturalism (2020-2023) is € 14,861,957.53 over four years. There is now an annual budget of 500,000 euros for intercultural grants to facilitate intercultural actions and projects by the network.

The Intercultural Plan process was participatory. Fifteen online debate sessions were held where small discussion groups identified the main challenges and the extent to which municipal actions had been targeted at equal rights, recognition of diversity, positive interaction and intercultural dialogue. Online interviews were also conducted with experts and practitioners in different fields. In addition, an online survey was carried out on the decidim.barcelona platform to explore citizens’ views in relation to equal rights, opportunities, equity and non-discrimination; interaction and intercultural dialogue and the recognition of diversity.

Barcelona has taken learning from its first Intercultural plan and strengthened the evaluation elements of the new Plan for 2021-2030. The government measure to “advance towards interculturalism” establishes guidelines for evaluating the Plan, including a system of indicators, monitoring and evaluation, and an external evaluation of the Plan that will be commissioned with the participation of social agents from the city every 3-4 years.

The BCN Interculturality Programme (PROGBI), part of the Department of Citizenship Rights, Culture, Participation and Transparency, is responsible for implementing the Plan. Every year, it prepares an annual report on different areas of work, including: Espai Avinyó - Language and Culture; the BCN Anti-Rumour Strategy; Intercultural Training; Promoting Interculturality; and Intercultural Communication.

The BCN Intercultural Action website contains the Intercultural Strategies and plans, other resources and documents, access to the BCN Anti-rumours Strategy, the training line, intercultural memoirs and projects, etc.

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