Introduction:

This proposal focuses on the need to innovate in Cuban social policy despite its tradition of equality, due to the repercussions that the reforms of the last decades have had on the structure of social classes. Objectives: to explain the design processes of local policies for equity, by analyzing local repertoires of public actions and the factors that determine its development (analyses of opportunities and structuring of areas where communities can take action).

Methods:

A mixed design was used, mainly focusing on qualitative methods in 6 communities. 59 semiestructured interviews were conducted; 142 structured interviews were carried out with people in disadvantage; a qualitative-quantitative documental analysis of 154 local actions was made; 84 questionnaires and participative techniques in 7 local groups were applied.

Results:

The importance of working in environments with a diversity of social positions was verified; also orientation of the interests towards socialist justice and participation with quality, diverse capacities to perceive inequalities and act on them; a fairer distribution of power between actors. This scenario is structured like a type of precondition for generating actions concerning various dimensions (gender, age, skin color, economic level, disability, space) that are part of different sectors of development, combine redistributive and distributive actions and get a stronger institutional support. This increases the probability of a future policy with a bigger range and sustainability; and its orientation towards a critical universalism that is required by a socialist development model.

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