Percepción de la participación y actoría de los representantes de la sociedad civil en el Consejo Cantonal de protección de derechos de Cuenca

Abstract

The present investigation, of descriptive-experimental character, is an approach to the representatives of the civil society before the Cantonal Council of Protection of Rights of Cuenca, in the period April 2015 - December 2016. The main goal of this investigation is to know the perceptions on their participation and role in the decision makings within their collegiate body. This research had a qualitative approach, that is why methodology to triangulate the information obtained between: proceedings of sessions of the Cantonal Council for the Protection of Rights (AC), ten interviews with representatives of civil society before the Cantonal Protection Council of Rights (EN) and a focal group (GF) was used. The data obtained were transcribed and later analyzed with the program Atlas. Ti version 7, which allowed us to categorize the information and then select the most relevant texts through the method of matrix analysis of categories. This method allows to construct an interpretation favoring the finding of relationships between the categories analyzed and the discourses of the interviewees. The results showed that participation in decision making was intense but not in the role where civil society representatives could not influence on the design, implementation and evaluation of public policies for reasons described in this research. The realization of this research opened the possibility to have an analysis of how the representatives of the civil society saw their participation and role and how the Cantonal Council for the Protection of Rights can improve their work in the following periods with the new representatives of the civil society, since the participants in this investigation have already completed the period for which they were elected.