La evaluación de las políticas de juventud en Colombia. Análisis de los casos de Bogotá, Medellín y Cali

Abstract

The evaluation of public policies is one of the most relevant phases of the policy cycle that allows identifying, explaining and valuing the social results of the actions implemented by the State. In Colombia, on the basis of the obligation established in the 1991 Constitution on the monitoring and evaluation of this public administration tool, exercises in this area are being advanced; however, there is currently no analysis from the academy against the evaluations developed in the country. Thus, this work analyzes the evaluations of the public policies of youth of Bogotá, Cali and Medellín that completed their implementation between 2015 and 2016, through the methodology of Content Analysis, taking the documents resulting in each city. Through the study, the main focus was the constructivist, the use of qualitative methodology and the types of expost, mixed and participatory evaluation, as well as the review of secondary sources with emphasis on the evaluation of the programs and projects that seek the guarantee of the rights contemplated in the guidelines of youth policies and the establishment of recommendations for adjustments to the policies as final product. It was found that the evaluation processes meet a set of criteria established for qualitative evaluations and the importance of continuing to strengthen the culture of evaluation was identified, in which it is contemplated as a planned and transverse element in the development of public policies.