Políticas y programas sobre nutrición desde 2008: un acercamiento al funcionamiento del Programa Alimentación Escolar y a las perspectivas de los beneficiarios del séptimo año de EGB en las Unidades Educativas Abelardo Tamariz Crespo y Nulti en Cuenca-Ecuador”

Abstract

Since the 20th century, the Latin American States have promoted public policies to face the challenges related to poverty and the poor distribution of resources, thanks to advances in different fields related to medicine. International organizations promoted projects and different actions to face these situations. The concept of Sustainable Development, coined in 1987, leads to a search for policies with social, environmental and economic balance for us and for future generations. In the country they began to be implemented in 1950 with a care approach and by 1990 the food and nutritional issue was the guiding axis. By the 21st century, policies and programs become financed by purely state resources and United Nations (UN) agencies become advisers. With the Constitution of 2008, they are institutionalized and correlated with concepts and objectives of Sustainable Development. All the discourse handled in the Constitution, National Plans and official documents by the State show that the policies seek inclusion, quality and equity. These state actions are scaffold between different sectors and actors, where dialogue and communication between them allows the programs to function correctly and comprehensively, which does not seem to be the case. Given this, students, parents and teachers of the seventh year of EGB were interviewed, where it could be noted that they know little about guidelines, policies or sectors involved, however, they understand the focus of the program and actively participate in it.