Diagnóstico comunitario participativo basado en un enfoque de medios de vida sostenibles en la comunidad de Minas-Baños, marzo 2022-diciembre 2022

Abstract

This research project focused on sustainable livelihoods understood as the resources, potentialities, capacities and social actors that should be enhanced for sustainable development, so this research consisted of identifying social problems and how these affected the livelihoods of the community of Minas of the parish of Baños. This research was based on a qualitative methodology, with a descriptive scope and a phenomenological approach, whose study participants are 24 inhabitants along with their directive where focus groups were applied with a guide of questions under informed consent and informed assent, using an observation sheet to show the surroundings of the community and spaces that it has. On the other hand, a sociogram was used to learn about the relationships between the social actors and the community, as well as the SWOT technique that allowed the identification of strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats. After the application of detailed instruments and techniques, the results of social problems were obtained in the lack of maintenance and supervision of basic services such as: potable water, lack of sewerage coverage, public lighting, poor road maintenance, insecurity and lack of health services. Finally, the community of Minas has human-social, financial-economic, natural, cultural and physical resources that at the moment are not being promoted due to the lack of participation of the board of directors, inhabitants and organizations of the parish of Baños.