Empoderamento como suporte ao desenvolvimento regional : um estudo de caso.

Abstract

Understanding local management that equates and rebalances social, environmental and economic aspects starting from a specific location base is also a condition for the achievement of sustainable regional development. In order to obtain that, some of the constituents of human empowerment as participation, community organization and self-esteem have been organized, feeding the community back and aiming to strengthen regional development through participatory actions originated from an environmentally, socially and economically degraded small community. As a local development strategy we attempted to constitute a transformation of the perspective of social actors, collectively creating proposals for alternative actions concerning improvement toward quality of life. Community organization construction was facilitated through research-action-participation. In addition, strategy construction and sustainable activities maintenance were also facilitated for Passo do Onze, on Marcílio Dias Street in Bagé. The focus was on participation. Greater social integration has been encouraged in that location through understanding and awareness of its strategic importance as an essential ecosystem for the improvement of Bagé stream thus raising people's self-confidence. The effectiveness of this research-action-participation was shown through the use of techniques such as interviews and devolution workshops which encouraged social participation and empowerment of individuals. These actions created a new perspective for an environmental, social and economic transition in order to create grounds for fostering regional development from this location base.