Higher technician for capacity building in sustainable local development management

Abstract

Promoting local development in all Cuban municipalities requires the training of skilled human resources with a holistic vision that encompasses all dimensions of this concept, which was not being taught in universities in their traditional degree programs. Faced with this problem and taking advantage of the approval by the Ministry of Higher Education of short-cycle higher education programs, the national network for university knowledge and innovation management agreed to design a program for capacity building in sustainable local development management, a task that was entrusted to the University of Pinar del Río, specifically to the Center for Management, Local Development, Tourism, and Cooperativism Studies. Hence, the objective of this work is to show the main elements that characterize this program, as well as the results achieved in its implementation. To this end, theoretical and empirical research methods were used from a mixed approach. The main results obtained were the professional model, the main impacts, and the strengths and weaknesses in the implementation of the program to date.