The GEP Collective - Camila Pava

Camila Pava Integrative Studio 2 MS Strategic Design & Management Parsons, The New School

President?

INCLUSIVE RESPONSIVE EGALITARIAN DEMOCRATIC

10%

of worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heads of state are women

Global participation of women in parliaments is less than

Late 1990â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

25%

Today

Sexism

Balancing work and family

Gender stereotyping

Lack of media support

If we keep going this way, it is going take us 107 years to achieve gender equality in politics.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not going to lie, it is a complex issue. As you just saw, the race for a woman to be elected is a tough one and requires much more than one intervention in the system.

So, to start this project, I asked myself if there was anything I could do to shorten this time, and make gender equality a reality.

Gender equality in Politics

107 YEARS

EDUCATION

QUOTAS

LEGISTATION

FINANCING

GRASSROOTS MOVEMENTS

EDUCATION

QUOTAS

LEGISTATION

FINANCING

GRASSROOTS MOVEMENTS

They do the Job Instigate change and fuel movements Collective Action Collective Leadership Collective Funds

Internet

Reach a wider audience Reduce costs of campaigns Use different means of communication Promote Networking

A collective with the mission of achieving Gender Equality in Politics

Non-partisan, two-sided networking platform that brings together skilled professionals and women political candidates

GEP Platform

Women political candidates Projects they need to work on when running their campaign

Multidisciplinary Professionals The skills to support these projects The willingness to invest their time Interest in networking

Women political candidates

Multidisciplinary Professionals

Have a campaign website with proposals

Website developer

Pictures for social media and other platforms

Photographer

Volunteering Platforms

BARRIER OF ENTRY

Support Women In Politics

Networking Platforms

PARTISAN WOMEN - ONLY

Community Building

Lower the barrier of entry for volunteers -

Making it easy for women and men in Colombia to join and initiate social movements

Provide networking benefits -

Offering a place to meet skilled female and male professionals in Colombia and to collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams

Level the playing field for women political candidates -

Women will be able to focus on the big picture because we will fill out the gaps of the different parts of the campaign

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Sexism

Balancing work and family

Gender stereotyping

Lack of media support

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The GEP Collective - Camila Pava

Published on Jun 22, 2020

Parsons MS SDM

120 is the number of years that it will take to achieve gender equality in politics in Colombia. This project started when I asked myself how we might shorten this number. After some research and understanding that the career of a woman in politics officially begins in the municipal council, I decided to develop a design intervention to increase the number of young women elected as municipal councilors. As of now, only 14% of councilors are women, and those who have been elected have had to deal with many obstacles, particularly the lack of money to hire professionals and lack of resources. With that in mind, The GEP Collective was born. This is a non-partisan, two-sided networking platform that brings together skilled professionals and women political candidates. Our goal is to lower the barrier of entry for volunteers, to provide networking benefits, and to level the playing field for women political candidates.