Popular education, a means of prevention of gender-based violence in western Nicaraguan communities.

Abstract

This essay is elaborated with a research focus for the prevention of the diverse expressions of Gender-Based Violence, being the investigative context referring to 10 communities of western Nicaragua, in whose rural settings a project was executed between the years 2016 - 2019, for the promotion of the integral development of women and from a gender perspective. Through the present writing, the importance of the popular education approach for the identification, recognition, and prevention of GBV, in family and community settings, is made visible. At the same time, the amalgamation of aspects that can be addressed from popular education, whose strategies, methodologies, and tools are appropriate to local realities, is evident. Thus, contributing to intercultural education, humanized, and committed to social changes.