Learning results in the process of local development management in a Matanzas municipality

Abstract

In order to know relevant aspects that constitute learning results in the process of local development management in the Perico municipality, Matanzas province –Cuba–, a systematization exercise was carried out in the period 2013-2016. For the analysis the variables identified in the axis of «management for development», in its productive and associative cultural dimensions, were taken as guide. The interviewed actors were identified and classified considering the objective and the functions, interests and practices; the information was processed from the divergence and recurrence analysis in order to document the experiences of most actors. Most of the interviewees acknowledged that there is a Municipal Development Program which is not always articulated with decisions, actions and interests of national organisms. They
consider that for development management it is necessary to have a space where the actors, transformation projections and actions under execution converge. The Multiactoral Management Platform has favored the elaboration of a common plan managed from the Government. From the interviewees, 30 % refers that the performed work has allowed to modify the way of thinking and acting of many institutions. It is concluded that the developed experience deployed an important transformation, with the participation of municipal social actors. Likewise, it is considered that the creation of these spaces is a need to advance in the solution of development demands.