Licencia social para operar Puerto Antioquia

Abstract

Through this research work, we aimed to understand if the Puerto Antioquia project, located in the Uraba region of the Colombian Caribbean, has a social license to operate, that would allow it to be a sustainable operation faced to the future. To develop this work, we conducted a research on historical and bibliographic information, in order to study the experience of the Buenaventura Port, and also to understand the information associated with the social licensing of infrastructure projects in other countries with similar risk situations to Colombia. After studying Urabá and understanding its history of violence and social problems and comparing this reality with the social situation in Buenaventura Port, we reached the conclusion that the Puerto Antioquia project does not yet have the social license to operate. Due this, we presented a proposal for a management model that can be implemented in the region, seeking to bring the Urabá community closer to Puerto Antioquia, with the goal of allowing for a closer understanding of the needs of stakeholder groups in the region, and so, alongside the national and local governments, to enable the implementation of different plans that ensure the arrival of the port in the region brings the development that local actors require, so that they can take ownership of the project and make it a success for the Urabá region, the Department of Antioquia, and the country, as a whole general.