Abstract

JUAN VELEZ PINCAY, Hugo Jesús; PAZ ENRIQUE, Luis Ernesto  and  HERNANDEZ ALFONSO, Eduardo Alejandro. Governance, participation and local development. The case of the decentralized autonomous governments of Ecuador. Conrado [online]. 2019, vol.15, n.70, pp. 25-30.  Epub Dec 02, 2019. ISSN 1990-8644.

Local and community development can be achieved from governance. In Ecuador, the experience of the Decentralized Autonomous Governments is developed, a type of government that favors citizen participation and the active involvement of individuals in decision-making processes as well as in their execution. The objectives of the study are: 1) to examine the issues of participation in the Decentralized Autonomous Governments of Ecuador; and 2) to identify the aspects that, from local and community development, should be present in the governance of good living and the Decentralized Autonomous Governments of the Ecuador. The study presented is classified as descriptive research. The study has a qualitative perspective. Methods and techniques for collecting information are used. In the theoretical level the methods are applied: logical-historical, synthetic-analytical, inductive-deductive and structural- systemic. At the empirical level, classical documentary analysis is applied that permitted to identify the problems of governance in Ecuador and to propose the necessary aspects for a true community development of citizenship.

Keywords : Governance; local development; community development.

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