Actualización del componente socio-cultural del plan de desarrollo y ordenamiento territorial 2014-2019 del cantón Pedernales

Abstract

In this systematization, we identify milestones and alternatives of the public policy in the process of updating the sociocultural component of the Development and Territorial Planning 2014 - 2019 of Pedernales canton, province of Manabí. This paper aims to provide evidence to influence the construction of cultural policies, local planning and social participation in the allocation of participatory budgets, and methodologies of cultural policies taking into account the particularities of the territory. After learning the lessons of this paper, a process of dialogue and socialization is required because that will generate collective learning to be able to participate in the construction of public policy in Pedernales canton. During reconstruction and interpretation of the experience, we have researched primary and secondary sources. The primary sources are under public domain, stories such as Development Plan and Territorial Planning (PDOT) of the Municipal Decentralized Autonomous Government of Pedernales, a guide for the formulation of PDOT (2011), Organic Codes and Laws, Municipal ordinances, minutes, resolutions, among others, to be detailed accordingly. Secondary sources such as workshops, testimonies of social leaders and dialogues with actors and civil society organizations were also accessed. In this document, the experience is presented in a chronological, critical and interpretive way of the experience of updating the socio-cultural component, which is mainly based on Development Plan and Territorial Planning 2014-2019. It will also evaluate boundaries such as inconsistencies in the application of the legal norm, the lack of methodological processes, and how that weakness affects participatory planning, insufficient deliberation which compromise citizenship´s consensus and decision-making.