Building Participation in the Territory: an experience of local and community development in the region of Magallanes

Abstract

This article describes the main processes and results of an experience of community intervention conducted in the town of Punta Arenas in the region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic. It begins with a background of the program and the central axis of the intervention to relate then the concepts of participation and local development. This social intervention is understood as the set of actions intended to transformation in the targeted areas, to generate local development processes and participation as the transverse axis at different stages of intervention.