Last February 2010, an big earthquake – followed by a tsunami – made Chili shake. 525 people died and 23 are still missing. Half million houses were destroyed and at least a million and a half more suffered some damaged, according to Government sources. Many villages were affected, as Talcahuano, a municipality where the Government had began a social protection programme 8 years earlier.
The winning study of the 5th edition of Premi d’Iniciació a la Investigació Josep María Bernabé is focused on the programmes agains poverty that can be developed in the village. This mention is organized by IIDL, the Interuniversity Institute of Local Development. The work’s title is ‘Sistema Intersectorial de Protección social en Chile: El caso de la implementación del programa Puente en la Comuna de Talcahuano- Chile’.
Ana Carolina Ortiz Landaeta is the author of the study awarded the 1st prize. The work’s title is ‘Sistema Intersectorial de Protecció social a Xile: El cas de la implementació del programa Puente en la Comuna de Talcahuano- Xile’. The author is a state administrator and has a degree in political sciences at Universidad de Concepción, Chili. She studied the master’s degree of Gestió i Promoció del Desenvolupament Local at IIDL. She is conducting her doctoral thesis at Universitat Jaume I in Castellón and currently she is working in the office of strategic planning of Universidad Santiago de Chile.
IIDL has also awarded two second prizes: one for the work ‘Transnacionalismo Polític, anàlisi de les associacions de migrants peruans amb enfocament polític a Barcelona’ by Ana Lucía Oliveres Pairazamán; and other for ‘Desenvolupament rural i xarxes socials, aproximació al cas d’estudi de la Serra d’Alcaraz i Camp de Montiel (Albacete)’ by Isabel Beltrán Gil.
The research on Talcahuano is particularly interesting because, as Ana Carolina Ortiz explains, ‘the municipality belongs to the Biobío region, the second poorest village in Chili, it has 21% of vulnerability; Talcahuano village has, at the same time, 16.9% of its population on the brink of poverty.’ She adds, ‘ it was a good study case because of the implementation of social policies, but its conditions were more likely to be studied because of the earthquake and tsunami of 2010, which increased the level of poverty.’
About IIDL
Currently directed by Joan Noguera, IIDL is a research centre focused on the local development field of studies. It is made up of researchers from Universitat Jaume I in Castellón and Universitat de València. They are experts in the different areas included in the IIDL, such as sustainable development, among others.
IIDL has more than 30 researchers in Valencia, who devote to the study and analysis of all the territorial dimensions of development.
Info: http://www.iidl.es/inicio/
Last update: 31 de may de 2012 15:23.
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