Participación ciudadana y economía popular y solidaria: una propuesta integradora desde los comerciantes en Portoviejo

Abstract

The objective of this study was to study the forms of institutional citizen participation at the local level, the GAD of Portoviejo was chosen as a case study. The methodology used was the participative action, which sought to generate a positive change in the community that was the association of merchants of the Caja de Ahorro y Crédito 1 de Septiembre, after having designated the group of participants it was put as objective to create a citizen proposal that articulates the popular and solidary economy and citizen participation. As a final achievement, a citizen proposal was developed to work together with the municipal management, the proposal colleted the main requirements of the merchants to improve the internal structure of a community saving bank thus become self-sustaining actors. Finally, contributed through an analysis to the citizen participation system of Portoviejo based on the principle of Maximum Democracy of Menser (2018).