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This paper presents a detailed review of the model of the Community Development Program for Marginalized Urban Areas ZUMAR+FIDEPO (Z+F), a social development program managed by the Ministry of Social and Human Development from the state of Guanajuato, which operates as a public trust. Based on a documentary analysis, it highlights the philosophy and vision, as well as its discourse and how development, participation and intervention has been conceptualized as the structural elements of the program. It also includes a punctual comparison with other similar projects in Chile and Cuba. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The intention of this paper is to build a methodological route for the study and analysis of the institutional capacity. To understand the institutional capacity is important to explore the following questions: by whom it is exercised?, how does it express?, where is it exercised?, which is the importance of the social actors in the above mentioned capacity?, and what role does it plays the institutional capacity in the public action? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Latin America, the emphasis on public policy approach has changed, by means of replacing the old positions by technocratic approaches in order to rescue and update the old and never resolved tensions between politics and policies. In contemporary discussions, attention has been given not only in the formulation but also to the political process, recognizing that categories of policies are influenced by the various policy approaches. This paper links the discussions of citizen participation and governance, from a democracy, human rights and development perspective in Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]