Social Development and Engagement to Address Guatemala's Challenges

Abstract

Development is an elusive concept with many meanings that may not be explicit. The author only considers it from the contingent point of view. He makes a social diagnosis to define social indifference, social exclusion, classism and racism as elementary problems, in addition to serious problems such as illiteracy, poverty, chronic malnutrition, vehicular traffic and corruption, the latter as a cause of other related ills. It proposes an approach to combat all these problems. Social participation is a fundamental strategy that seeks to convince citizens to participate, citing sectors such as the for-profit sector in all its dimensions; the government with its various centralized and decentralized agencies; and the population. The government is in charge of coordinating and promoting integral participation. The author proposes the creation of a national inter sectorial body to ensure the monitoring and evaluation of planned and planned actions.