Participación ciudadana y el rol del Trabajador Social

Abstract

The descriptive research, aimed to determine citizen participation and the role of the social worker, the study was carried out with a population of 50 residents of the El Calvario - Pinllo neighborhood. Citizen participation and social work are concepts that have gained relevance over time. Citizen participation is the process by which citizens are part of the decision-making and development processes of the community. Regarding social work, it is the profession that starts from the social sciences and its objective is to promote social welfare based on human rights, being an important component that allows creating options for the full functioning of human, collective and individual capacities. To carry out the project, a methodology was carried out with a quantitative approach, a questionnaire previously evaluated through the Expert Judgment technique was applied, the questionnaire consists of 16 items, made up of 2 dimensions such as citizen participation and the role of the social worker; the feasibility was applied to 5 teachers from the Faculty of Jurisprudence and Social Sciences of the Technical University of Ambato, and it was calculated through Cronbach's Alpha in SPP. From where the conceptualizations and processes of the citizen participation mechanisms established in Ecuador were analyzed according to the Constitution established in 2008 and in the Organic Law of Citizen Participation. In the investigation carried out, it was possible to verify that there is a relationship between citizen participation and the role of the social worker and that they are part of local development. The investigation showed that the residents of the El Calvario neighborhood make use of the citizen participation mechanisms that are developed within the management of the Pinllo Parish GAD