Institutional Governance as an Instrument of Citizen Participation in the Management of Sustainable Local Public Works. Study Unit: GAD Municipal Mocache

Abstract

The main objective of the research is to contextualise the postulates that support institutional governance as a strategy for citizen participation focused on issues of sustainable local public works, accompanied by the specific objectives: to identify the theories that make citizen participation viable from a governance proposal; to reflect on citizen participation focused on issues of sustainable local public works. As a unit of study is the GAD Municipal Mocache (Province of Los Ríos, Ecuador), being a phenomenological-interpretative paradigm research, with a qualitative approach and inductive method; the instruments of data collection have been direct observation and in-depth interview, applied to researchers knowledgeable in the themes of institutional governance, citizen participation and sustainable public works. The analysis strategy used was that proposed by the Grounded Theory, in the version developed by Strauss and Corbin. In the categorisation process, four family components emerged as findings: institutional governance for the design of public policies, innovation in the management of public works with a sense of sustainable development, promotion of an intensive dialogue to generate alliances between actors of change and citizen laboratory of sustainable local public works; giving way to a central category: institutional governance for sustainable local public works, which is considered from the research, as a proposal of good praxis to be developed in the GAD Municipal Mocache (Province of Los Ríos, Ecuador).