EXPLORATIVE STUDY ON THE PARTICIPATION AND CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF CAJEME

• Published in: Ra ximhai Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 117 - 136
• Main Authors: Adán Guillermo Ramírez-García, Cynthia Teresa Valenzuela-Valdez
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Autónoma Indígena de México 01.09.2019
• Subjects: aves del castillo; citizenship; management; organization; Sonora
• ISSN: 1665-0441; 1665-0441
• DOI: 10.35197/rx.15.02.2019.07.ma

The objective of this work was to identify the main problems in the Colonia Aves del Castillo, Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico, as well as the factors that can trigger citizen participation to solve them in order to contribute to community development. Citizen participation refers to the orderly intervention of citizens in matters of a public nature through expressions and practices that generate alternative solutions affecting public management in a democratic context. While, community development is a method of intervention that aims to incorporate all the agents that make up the community, establishing processes of participation and articulation among the population, fostering a pedagogical process and the participatory capacities of the actors and mediating structures, that allows us to reach common and predetermined objectives to improve the economic, social and cultural conditions of the communities, and whose results can be evaluated continuously. The study focused on a non-experimental, explanatory descriptive research; 119 surveys were applied. The results show that the main problems in the Colony are crime, vandalism and drug addiction, in addition to the lack of services. It is considered that nobody attends the problems to solve them, nor the inhabitants themselves have ever done anything because their activities do not allow it, as well as disinterest and their response was that they do not like to participate because nothing is ever resolved. The reasons for participating in activities that contribute to solve the problems indicate that the actions promoted should be reflected in changes that were evident. However, there are also people who say that nothing would motivate them.