Social investigation participative in observatories of Childhood and Gamily

Abstract

The article presents a vision from the authors on the strategy of the Observatories of Childhood and Family OIF promoted from the Colombian Institute of Family Well-being ICBF, starting from the learning obtained in the consultancy and technical attendance for the processes of investigation social participative in municipalities of the country, through the Observatories of Childhood and Family, during 2005-2006-2007. Show the investigation experience is looked for that is carried out in the OIF of the ICBF, like an innovative strategy of Social Investigation Participative in search of the social transformation promoted from ICBF, institution of national character, guarantor of the Well-being of the family, the childhood and the youth. The strategy OIF recognizes the necessity of potenciar wide processes of analysis and reflection in front of the situation of the family and construction a culture of the rights of the childhood and the family, matter that should summon to the civil society and all the institutions that the national System of Well familiar Beign SNBF conforms. For it the OIF is incluyente and adopts like focus, the Social Investigation Participative. The principles of the strategy are described, the objectives in their fronts related with the knowledge of the social reality; the qualification of the Public Service of Family Well-being and the impact evaluation. The OIF in the ICBF began in 2001; until today one has come strengthening and deepening in local problems, starting from the initiatives promoted by those and the public servants of the ICBF, having as more visible product the results of 145 research reports, with thematic diversity that gives content bill and premeditations that underlie in the investigations, to those that one will be able to consent and to consult in the page Web of the ICBF: http://www.bienestarfamiliar.gov.co