Publicación:

Gobernanza del agua. Estudio de Caso: Municipio de Quebradanegra, Cundinamarca

Resumen

This research report focuses on the identification of the actors and their impact on the management of water in the municipality of Quebradanegra, where the predominance of hierarchy factors becomes visible, since they have different levels of action, establishing a State-relationship. society with a very low unit management structure, coordinated and consistent with the needs of the municipality. In fact, the description of the water governance processes in the Quebradanegra municipality is developed under three stages: Conceptualization of governability, water governance, comprehensive water resource management, organizational management, and an exploration of documents that will lead to a brief descriptive analysis of the context at the municipality level. Exploratory visits to the territory; for the identification of actors involved in management, as well as those actors who are directly or indirectly involved and who, due to their knowledge of the context, allowed the collection of information, which was collected through semi-structured interviews. In this third phase, the information was systematized using as a tool the elaboration of maps through georeferencing, Google Earth, a tool that allowed identifying the location of the water sources and the coverage of each of the aqueducts of the municipality. In addition, support instruments taken from Stakeholder theory (stakeholders) are used, elements that are considered relevant for the identification, classification and selection of actors based on matrices that allow identifying those actors who may have an influence on management. of water and its hierarchy depending on said influence. The methodology is oriented from the inductive - qualitative approach and is based on the case study method, an approach that seeks from a specific sample, a social phenomenon framed by a defined territory or scenario that for this case is the municipality of Quebradanegra located in the Gualivá region of the department of Cundinamarca.