El papel de la comunicación para el cambio social en el ciclo de la Política Pública de discapacidad. Estudio de caso de la Ley Estatutaria 1618 de 2013

Abstract

This research has the primary objective of understanding the role of communication for social change in the cycle of Public Policy on disability in the case of Statutory Law 1618 of 2013. Based on the information provided by the population with disabilities, compared to the be listened to and be able to participate in public policy spaces, for which they were established as specific objectives, to analyze the link between communication, public policy and disability specifically within the framework of Statutory Law 1618 of 2013, propose guidelines for a strategy communicative around the public policy of disability specifically Statutory Law 1618 of 2013 and assess the participation and communication of public policy aimed at the disabled population; The qualitative methodology with a hermeneutic approach was established from a case study, through semi-structured interviews that were implemented to three groups of specific actors of representatives of civil society, the State and other actors such as experts from the academy; providing specific parameters for the processes and exercises of citizen participation of people with disabilities, which have been established only in some segmented groups of the population, being a problem for consolidating social change in the community; in turn, it is identified that communication for social change is not understood from the magnitude and significance of this in the communities, being visible that the communication strategies established for public policy on disability have not been thought with the population and for the population.