Planning and management of the Community Councils of the Patia region of southwestern Colombia

This article reveals the planning and management processes of the community councils of the Pada region in the department of Cauca, located in the south-west of Colombia. The research is placed under a hermeneutic historical epistemological approach, documentary analysis techniques and group interviews are implemented with the purpose of understanding situations or achievements of community management from the stories, experiences, and experiences of community councils. To facilitate the complementarity of the data, three investigative techniques are triangulated, the observation recorded in the field diaries, the interviews, and the documentary research techniques. The results relate to the Colombian State as guideline guide to strengthen cultural identity, collective territory, economic and social development that guarantee rights and equal opportunities through ethno-development plans; while the community councils under their worldview appropriate the life plan for sustainability, identify themselves as guarantors of the protection and defense of the territory, through their community organization they preserve their own agroecological practices, which contribute to maintaining and rescuing related ancestral knowledge to the sustainable development goals.