Diagnósticos participativos y participación de los jóvenes en contextos municipales de soledad - Atlántico y Cienaga - Magdalena

Abstract

On a global scale, community development is an action that tries to organize the global progress of a community, in response to the needs or social demand that it has. This occurs in a coordinated and systematic manner in a well-defined community and includes the participation of the different stakeholders. In different underdeveloped countries, this has been a great tool to propose global development with the participation of the population and intervening in the creation and organization of community resources to meet social needs and encourage the participation of the population. (Stripe, 2005). In Colombia, many companies, entities and organizations, both public and private, offer community development programs. It is very common for collaborators to offer training programs from recreational, artistic, arts and crafts devices, access to education, reading and technology, early childhood development, organizational processes with young people and well-being in families and the elderly, among others; in order to strengthen the empowerment of the participants of each program in the face of the situations of their contexts (Fe y Alegría Colombia, 2021). While it is true that each of these strategies has been of great benefit in improving the population's quality of life, there are very few interventions that provide tools for communities to participate in their development, in three main dimensions: being human , being a community and being a citizen. Very few establish foundations for communities from their own territories to build the development they need and want (OECD, 2016). Likewise, by direct observation it is evident that the planning of the development of the municipality of Soledad, Atlántico, as well as many other municipalities, is always in the hands of "political experts" who advise from their external perspective but very little take into account the interests of the community. and the particular needs of the communities in the economic, sociocultural and environmental aspects (Carrillo, 2018). Therefore, it is necessary to implement participatory diagnoses and thus know the needs of a community before implementing improvement actions, so that, in this way, they are effective.

Now, taking into account that community development in a neighborhood must be a participatory and inclusive process, for families, social leaders, entities present, among others; The participation of those who “have no voice” is necessary to determine in a complete and detailed manner, with first-hand information, the social needs that the community considers as its own (Casado, 2016). For these reasons, it is of vital importance that in the Don Bosco neighborhood, in the municipality of Soledad, Atlántico, participatory diagnoses be implemented as exercises that are based on the collective construction of prioritization of needs and that various actors who are relevant are included. in the territory. In this way, the approximately 1000 families who live in the sector and who wish to have the right to citizenship and try to build a plan that seeks to solve social problems such as vulnerability, insecurity, inequality, social exclusion, shortcomings in services will be represented. public, streets in poor condition, among many others that exist at this time and that give a negative image of poverty and crime to the neighborhood.