Guidelines for the public policy of youth in the city of Neiva, Colombia

Abstract

This is a reflection on a research project that provides guidelines for the construction of municipal public policy of youth in Colombia, a study case of Neiva as the capital of Huila Province in the Surcolombiano. There is an introduction from the bases of the study that through an inter-administrative agreement between the Municipality and the Surcolombiana University allowed to develop a participatory exercise with young people of the city who have their own identity over the art and culture, job, high school, higher education, rural areas, communes, the LGBTI community and the indigenous community. Through a mixed methodology that from the quantitative interest offered a survey of sociodemographic characterization that contributed to the analysis of qualitative information that was collected in 12 groups of discussion and 6 social cartographies with young people under the differential approach. We recognize the importance of the appropriation of the concepts of public policy and youth policy with which insists on developing an exercise with sense of participation and generational approach; because the interests of youth change over time. The document ends with the results of the study that exposes the guidelines for a youth policy, that from the problematic of 12 categories of analysis they propose 3 strategic axes for the definition of a municipal public policy. KEY WORDS Public Policy, Youth Policy, State of policies, Youth, Participation.