OUR MISSION

Identity

Having an identity is a fundamental

human right which allows each individual
the ability to enjoy all of their rights.

Identity encompasses the family name, the surname, date of birth, gender and
nationality of the individual. Through these details, an individual will hold rights and
obligations specific to their status. A child without an identity will be invisible in eyes of
society and will not benefit from protection and social services essential to their
development. In IADEPP, acronym for Open Institute of Development and Study of
Public Policies, we consider Right to Identity the keystone for the exercise of many
other rights.

We are a non profit organization founded in 2003 in Buenos Aires, Argentina with a
mission to guarantee the access to the right to identity in our country. We do this since
our beginnings trying to find solutions and strategies for people that were not
registered at birth, focusing on children and young women and men. In 2012 a study
developed by the Observatory of Argentina Social Debt of the Catholic University of
Argentina (UCA) and IADEPP titled “Unregistered people in Argentina. The
invisible face of poverty” concluded that 168.000 0 to 17 year old children do not
exist legally in Argentina.

We develop methods to solve complex birth registration and indentification situations,

and also work in technical assistance to government administration and state and
judicial functionaries.
Institutes to implement the national programme “Patria Grande” in which we
regularized more than 1200 Latin American immigrants in order to settle and reside in
Buenos Aires, Argentina.

WHAT WE DO
Inmigrants

Our team also brings advise in

documentary regularization to
migrating people and presents
workshops with theory and practice
among social organizations of
different collectivities.

Argentina’s National Direction chose

IADEPP as one of the

Gender studies
Partnership with other women and gender foundations: with Asociación Civil Trama we
developed in 2013 the study “Youth, relationships and violence in couples” that gave
us conclusions about concepts and the complexity of relations in teenagers. The base
content of this investigation contribute to the release of the campaign #QueOnda with
the United Nations (UN) and Avon Foundation.

Partnership with agencies of public opinion: in 2017 we released “Intimate worlds in

code of equality and inequality” with the consulting firm Giacobbe & Associates in
order to represent the distribution of home tasks in couples and how women and men
invest their time in everyday life. The conclusions of this study are used in many articles
produced by national media such as Clarín, La Nación and Perfil newspapers and online
versions.

WHAT WE DO

On the other hand, we consider gender equality as a human

right and in order to investigate and develop field studies in
2012 we presented our Department of Gender Studies.

We work analyzing masculinities and feminities in social

relationships with a method based on research, evidence and
practice.

Financial education
We believe a financially educated person knows the value of financial inclusion. In
order to educate people in the value of financial inclusion, we present workshops with
practical and theory tools in high density settlements in the periurban areas destined
to informal and semi-formal workers.

At the same time, we also seek the incorporation of financial education in Argentina’s
Education System making emphasis in saving resources responsibly.

Since 2019 we work with the International Labour Organization (ILO)

designing and promoting formation courses destined to social organizations in
Buenos Aires.

WHAT WE DO

Following the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN we

promote financial education: financial inclusion is positioned
prominently as an enabler of other developmental goals in the
2030 Sustainable Development Goals, where it is featured as a
target in eight of the seventeen goals.

WHAT WE DO
Access to decent habitat

Difficulties in the way of access to decent habitat seriously affect broad sectors of
 our country’s population, particularly those of middle and lower income. Decent
habitat means universal access to land, housing, basic infrastructure, social
facilities, services and spaces for work and production in a framework of respect
for each community’s cultural and symbolic assets and for environmental
conservation, according to the particularities of urban settings.

We believe in cities as subject of collective rights, and citizenship as a tool to

make them effective. That’s why we subscribe collective’s and social
organization’s claims about a proper way of access to decent habitat.

CULTURE

COMMUNICATION
AND CiudadSI is our news website: a team of social
communicators, journalists, editors and audiovisual producers converge in
www.ciudadsi.com to publish news related to youth, sexuality, gender equality,
access to identity, technology and art.
In 2009 we released our documentary “Invisible citizens” with the producer
“Lanza la Bola”.
In IADEPP we promote culture and cultural participation in our community center
Ciudad Activa. Theater classes, art exhibitions, live music and a urban biking
event that takes place once a month in our city are some of the activities that
Ciudad Activa has to offer in our neighborhood.
Dialogue, respect, diversity,

network, learning, freedom,

equality and participation.

CONTACT US
www.iadepp.org
info@iadepp.org Phone:
(+5411) 4792-3914
IADEPP @iadepp @ciudadactiva.iadepp

WHAT WE

STAND FOR