Community social economy with identity from an intercultural gender perspective

Abstract

The study was carried out in ten communities located in the rural area of Siuna, Autonomous Region of the Northern Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua. Its objectives are to characterize the population, community economic and social development with identity from an intercultural gender perspective, to describe the state of art of these from the participation of the people, and to analyze realities, contexts, and scenarios for thepromotion of local community economies for the life of the people. The study was developed under the quantitative approach with a descriptive level, data were collected with a structured survey with closed questions on a Likert scale and sectoral workshops. For data processing, statistical techniques were applied to organize, tabulate, represent and synthesize data related to the study variables. The results show that men are responsible for the leadership of the household. A quarter of the population is young and economically active. In these communities, agriculture is the main livelihood and the average salary is 3,800 córdobas, surviving daily on 157.5 córdobas. It was learned that more than half of the population of school age is active in the different modalities. There are sixteen schools, and the modality with the most students is multi-grade primary school. It is vital to implement trade schools to generate employment and self-employment opportunities.