Governance for territorial development in the municipality of Florida - Valle del Cauca. El Progreso neighborhood (commune 3) and Tarragona township 2000-2018

Abstract

The article presents the results of the research carried out in the El Progreso neighborhood and the Tarragona district of the municipality of Florida in Valle del Cauca with the purpose of identifying the incidence of governance in the territorial development of the aforementioned territories. The exercise is carried out from a qualitative methodology that uses the Analytical Framework of Governance-MAG, which allowed establishing the nodal points from the interaction of its actors and validating the norms or agreements reached between them, and how they contribute to the improvement of the living conditions of the populations; The techniques used were the semi-structured interview with key actors and the documentary analysis of both management reports and policy documents such as municipal development plans and theoretical references. For the information analysis the atlas ti was used. The information triangulation technique was useful when countering the information obtained from different information sources.

As part of the findings, it was identified that the interactions between the actors occur as a product of political will, with a high degree of leadership from some of them and in a scenario of social innovation that seeks to solve the problems of the communities, promoting a greater social cohesion and especially, the strengthening of civil society; Their ability to relate is identified as a key factor in terms of closing gaps.