Análisis de la gobernanza comunitaria, una mirada al presupuesto participativo de Rionegro

Abstract

The current world has begun to understand that the ultimate goal of any action is definitely the human being. Aware that for many years greater importance has been given to organizations that prioritize the most valuable resources of nature and that through these have benefited a few, isolating themselves from the common good that has been the philosophical basis of the development of a successful society. Hence, an aspect so relevant to any organized community, such as governance, retakes its fundamental bases and is "renewed" in the community governance that implements the civil economy as a fundamental axis of development, leaving behind proposals that involve ways such as caudillismo, corporatism or even forms of government such as populist and neopopulist. This fact gave way to democracy, generating from the civil society itself a more participatory critical vision, fostering the emergence of new actors that in this case demand principles of citizenship and civil empowerment. Several writers converge on the idea that this new empowered civil society is willing to mobilize on issues such as political and social democratization and the reconstruction of national economies around social capital. With the development of the present investigation, the community governance process currently being studied in the municipality of Rionegro was studied, specifically in the spaces for citizen participation generated by the municipal administration, including the participatory budget; for which based on a reference of the implementation of this instrument of citizen participation as it is the municipality of Medellin, some differences are identified, to finally generate a series of conclusions and recommendations that could be taken into account in the municipality, facilitating the possibility of empowering civil society and enhancing their knowledge regarding the use and prioritization of public resources. In those cases where there is no meeting that allows citizens to take part in government decisions, there are serious problems of distrust among the actors, breach of commitments on the part of the government, mismanagement of information and fragmented information acquisition on the part of the government. of civil society; facts that divide the relations between the State and the actors that comprise it. Seeking to deepen this issue, the following question has been raised, which was the baseline for the development of this research: Is the implementation of the participatory budget as a tool for citizen participation being an effective means of governance in Rionegro? The relationship of this topic with the Master in Social Enterprise Management for Social Innovation and Local Development is precisely in the fourth area that refers to local development, the basis of this study.