Participatory planning in Chone, effects on the comprehensive development of the canton

Abstract

Participatory planning, constitutionally established in Ecuador, to manage local development from the active participation of the citizen, is the key to strengthening the competencies, especially of decentralized autonomous governments, and is an opportunity to promote citizen empowerment and awareness of their own needs and possible solutions to them, integrating them into the decision-making of local governments. The objective of this research is to analyze the development of participatory planning and its effects on the integral development of the canton of Chone, with a quantitative and qualitative-descriptive approach, through documentary and field analysis of the study variables and the contrast of the results with the budget execution of the Gouvernement Municipal of Chone. It is concluded that, in the Organic Plan for Territorial Development, citizen participation with the representativeness of the neighborhoods and communities of Chone, was not adequate, the planned projects and programs were overestimated concerning the economic reality of the institution, which once evaluated do not reflect significant progress at the general level, which ultimately affected local development with the participation of the community.