Evaluación del impacto de la participación ciudadana del denominado bloque 28 en la construcción de políticas públicas para el desarrollo social, durante la implementación de los mecanismos de consulta previa, libre e informada de la Ronda Suroriente en el 2012

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Abstract:Once the Constitution of 2008 has incorporated as transversal topic the citizen rights recognition, the equitable distribution of resources, equality and poverty eradication, many legal reforms were made, which emphasize citizen participation processes; in 2010 Hydrocarbons Law was reformed, disposing that 12% of oil benefits will be assigned to social investment projects and territorial development. In 2012 Ecuadorian government proposed an exploratory project in southeastern, before the call for assignment and tender. For the first time in the country's hydrocarbon history, the previous consultation process was applied The contribution is to analyze if the approach, proposed by the Ecuadorian government through its development policies and management model, is concordant with needs and expectations of population situated in Block 28, as part of a strategy of rights restoration to determinate if public participation has an impact on the construction of public policy aimed to social development.