Sosa LI, Lefévre P, Guerra CM, Ferrer FL, Rodríguez SA, Herrera TD, De Vos P, Bonet GM, Van Der Stuyft P

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Community participation and empowerment are seen as important elements to improve health and enhance the quality of life of communities.
Objectives: submit a participatory in planning-implementation-evaluation in health contexts intervened and show its potential to increase community participation and local empowerment.
Methods: present a participatory action research where the participatory methodology was used CPPE (Comprehensive Participatory Planning and Evaluation) adapted to the Cuban context for planning-implementation-evaluation of health interventions. During the process involved health leaders, formal leaders (intersectoral) and informal leaders of health areas - Councils. Planning workshops were held and / or assessment - planning and interventions were implemented. The sources of information were: participant observation in workshops, rapporteurs and evaluation of the workshops, indepth interviews, the Case Studies of the methodology report and the Case Studies of the implementation reports.
Results: the methodology implementation improved the decision-making process, the methodology was widely accepted, there was a growing interest in the sustainability of the process.
Conclusions: The implementation methodology, favored the process of participation and empowerment within the target communities. In all locations the different types of leaders and much of the communities went from being partners in health interventions, to become key players in the decision-making.

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