Caracterización administrativa de las ligas deportivas del departamento de Arauca en el año 2023

Abstract

Introduction: Currently the constitutional foundation of sport in Colombia is enshrined in article 52 of the Political Charter of 1991, which recognizes the right of all people to recreation, to practice sports and to take advantage of free time. In accordance with the provisions of the political constitution of Colombia, the sports law was created, which establishes that "the National Sports System is the set of organizations articulated among themselves, to allow community access to sports, recreation, the use of free time, extracurricular education and physical education. The system has a hierarchical structure, in which the Sports Leagues are in operation at the departmental level, which "are private law organizations constituted as associations or corporations by a minimum number of sports clubs or promoters or both, to encourage, sponsor and organize the practice of a sport with its sports modalities. Objective: Identify the administrative characteristics of the sports leagues of the department of Arauca in the year 2023. Method: The research was approached from a quantitative, cross-sectional and descriptive approach. 15 sports leagues attached to the Departmental Institute of Sports and Recreation of Arauca participated; How inclusion criteria were established: having current or pending sports recognition at the time of the investigation. An Ad hoc questionnaire was used, prepared by the researcher Alexander Quintero Vidal under the supervision of the advisor Alba Liliana Murillo López, and validated by the members of the evaluation committee of degree works of the Santo Tomas University. Results: In the sample, 60.00% of the sports organizations in the department of Arauca have an institutional development plan, and 53.33% of the sports organizations in the department of Arauca have an Institutional Mission, Institutional Vision, Procedures Manual and Function's manual. Conclusions: One of the main weaknesses of the Sports Leagues of the department of Arauca, is the little importance they give to the planning process. Which allows to show the low organizational, functional, and operational level.