Management of Popular Participation as a Teaching and Participatory Exercise for Community Self-Development

Abstract

Today, communities identify dialogue, communication and participation as essential categories to direct their own local development. It is impossible not to identify something you do not want to change, both institutionally and personally. It begins to give value to something as primitive as communication, the right to be part and the possibility of making decisions about what it involves to some extent.    It is important that the community becomes the subject of its own processes of change, which is already happening. Cuba has structures capable of routing its members' efforts towards the same objective, it being almost impossible for any population not to belong to a social affiliation, where there is a process of updating the economic model, reducing verticalism and paternalism for the State that makes a called to change everything that has to be changed and an integral view of development is encouraged. Countless problems, leading personal and social economic uncertainty makes many pessimistic about the future. In many communities the role and strengthening of local actors is contrasted, which, after the maximum of belief, is power; Dialogue, solidarity in self-management to solve problems, mass training in participation, use of creativity, talent, potential and enviable contribution of ideas, adorn a greater category: that of being Cuban.