Abstract

ECHEVERRI-LONDONO, Maria Catalina  and  SANCHEZ, Ana Lucia. The University as a Manager of Local Development Processes and Network Strengthening: The Experience of Community Intervention in Cali, Colombia. Ágora U.S.B. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.2, pp.172-189. ISSN 1657-8031.  https://doi.org/10.21500/16578031.4606.

Today, it can be recognized that strategies, such as the "Integral Center for the Promotion of Rights" at Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Cali campus -, the Agency for Reinstatement and Standardization and Family Guidance Foundation (FUNOF), enable the promotion of a community social development, whose aim is to promote better forms of socialization and links that allow the construction of a social fabric, by promoting mental health. Likewise, intervention strategies, which focus on the idea-proposal of citizen culture as a 'Formula' have become popular, and they have been awarded various achievements, by including work for coexistence, in the midst of a deeply unequal and polarized country, impacted by intertwining violence.

Keywords : Psychosocial Intervention; Systematization of Experiences; Community; Local Development, Territorial Development; and Social Projection.

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