Participación ciudadana en el desarrollo comunitario del barrio La Octubrina del cantón El Guabo, año 2021

Abstract

This research seeks to determine the significance generated by citizen participation in community development in the La Octubrina neighborhood of El Guabo canton, through a quantitative research, with the perspective that the inhabitants of the sector strengthen social cohesion linked to community development. Because the participation of the inhabitants of a certain population sector in matters that concern it is a primary factor for it to be able to resolve or overcome the obstacles that prevent it from moving forward and therefore guarantee a better quality of life for its population. Regarding the specific objectives, they were aimed at identifying the social manifestations that characterize current citizen participation, categorize the specific problems that affect community development, detect the causal factors that affect the low levels of intervention of the population and, finally , identify the limitations that are generated in family well-being and good community living. Citizen participation is considered as any act in which civil society actively intervenes, both in decision-making, as well as in the control and execution of established actions, allowing them to improve their standard of living. The theoretical support of the problem under study is the functionalist Structural theory, since it allows us to understand how societies maintain order and stability to survive over time, taking into account the way they are organized and the function that each of the parts that make it up. The epistemological approach of the diagnostic process is the Empirical-inductive one, as for the methodological approach, as it was mentioned previously it was the quantitative one and the techniques and instruments used for the development of the investigation are the observation and the survey. selected a sample of 237 people who live in the La Octubrina sector, which allowed collecting true data in relation to the phenomenon under study. The results obtained through the development of the research allow to determine that in the neighborhood there is no active participation of the population in solving the problems that are currently present and that the phenomenon of individualism is one of the main causes that prevent the population from is organized and cohesive to work together for the good of the neighborhood and the community, in the same way, the lack of support from the municipal authorities and the absence of protagonism of the neighborhood committee that is currently formed causes inefficient management in terms of intervention and social action projects, in addition to the increase in problems related to citizen security and environmental pollution.