Bibliographic citations
Huarhua, R., Tardeo, J. (2024). Percepciones y estrategias de participación en entornos de variación socioeconómica. Caso del proyecto de exploración Palcawanka, comunidad campesina de Conaicasa, distrito de Palca, provincia y región de Huancavelica [Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/28120
Huarhua, R., Tardeo, J. Percepciones y estrategias de participación en entornos de variación socioeconómica. Caso del proyecto de exploración Palcawanka, comunidad campesina de Conaicasa, distrito de Palca, provincia y región de Huancavelica []. PE: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2024. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/28120
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title = "Percepciones y estrategias de participación en entornos de variación socioeconómica. Caso del proyecto de exploración Palcawanka, comunidad campesina de Conaicasa, distrito de Palca, provincia y región de Huancavelica",
author = "Tardeo Escobar, Julio Miguel",
publisher = "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú",
year = "2024"
}
The Huancavelica region is rich in metal deposits, there is production of arsenic, bismuth, copper, gold, silver, lead, zinc. In relation to national metal production, we find that “In April 2022, metal mining production of iron (+7.6%), tin (+1.5%) and molybdenum (+6.0%) recorded increases in production levels compared to to the same month in 2021. However, national production of copper (-1.7%), gold (-0.1%), zinc (-23.6%), silver (-4.4%) and lead (- 4.0%) reflected decreases in the same period, which denotes continuity in the production process of raw materials. Although polymetallic production in the Huancavelica region is outstanding and is part of the support of the national economy; This fact is not related to the development of the communities near the mining projects; otherwise, the limitations on access to basic services have been normalized, thus creating an environment of poverty and extreme poverty; worrying situation that could be reversed through a Local Economic Development-LED strategy. In this context, the exploration project called Palcawanka is developed, which, although it has configured an economic and social variation in the community, it has been identified that the surrounding community maintains its limited access to basic services; On this ground, perceptions and participation strategies are generated from actors such as the community and the company. The perceptions of the community members and company officials on the one hand and the field research on the other will allow us to extract elements for the management of Local Economic Development-LED, as understood by Alburquerque (2004), development should arise from the territory and actors through strategic alliances. This research, we found three results; The first result is related to the perception of community members who, although they perceive the socioeconomic changes and the influence of the company as favorable for their development, there is a smaller group that considers that they do not perceive major changes in their style of work. life or its material conditions have changed over the years. Second, company officials consider that their intervention in the community has contributed favorably to its development, as well as to the improvement of the companycommunity relationship; and this is related to the intervention strategies they have in situ. However, it should be noted that the company's intervention policy in the community has been developed in a pragmatic manner, without having a sustainability policy and strategic social management that allows it to build a relationship of shared value, its actions are more related to philanthropy and economic support of the moment that, although they mitigate the spirits of the community, are not typical of social management whose goal is the best living conditions of the populations where it intervenes. For instance, road construction projects were executed based on the company's needs but not based on the community's participation in making decisions about their territory and the future. Although they are works in favor of community development, the social participation essential for its development isn´t evident. Third, a concern has been identified from the community; and this has to do with the demand for information about the contamination that mining activity could generate in their community, considering that the information that is conveyed by its inhabitants and media about cases of contamination in Cerro de Pasco, Cajamarca, or Cusco. This result is an expression of the type of social management that the company has been undertaking that does not consider preventive aspects such as communication, which are useful in strengthening trust and transparency in the relationship between the company, the community, and officials, since they serve to prevent social conflicts. On the other hand, the central elements extracted through qualitative research that includes semi-structured interviews of the main actors involved in the company-community relationship; They will allow the company to propose sustainability strategies for the mining exploration project. To this end, the present research has a general objective which is to analytically reconstruct the perception and participation strategies of the community and the company about their interrelation within the framework of the social and economic changes generated by the intervention of the Palcawanka exploration project; with a view to extracting main lessons and possibilities for creative replication in other mining projects that are developing explorations or will be developed throughout the national territory.
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