The proposal made by the researcher Yurany Carola Yama Morán in agreement with the Trópico Vivo Foundation, is useful for the formulation of a public water policy, which allows controlling conflicts of access and use, important elements for a present and future peaceful coexistence.

 

With the proposal called "Design of a participatory sustainability assessment tool for Rural Water Supply Systems- SAAR", the student and researcher Yurany Carola Yama Morán from the Master's Degree in Continental Hydro-biological Resources at the University of Cauca obtained first place in the ninth version of the Jorge Bernal Prize for social research, awarded by the CONFIAR foundation.

 

The award ceremony will be held in the first months of 2021, in the city of Medellín.

 

According to the juries, the proposal made in agreement with the Trópico Vivo Foundation is useful for the formulation of a public water policy, which allows controlling access and use conflicts, important elements for a present and future peaceful coexistence.

 

“It manages to identify very sensitive issues of a different nature (climate, armed violence, empowerment of communities) that threaten the self-management of community aqueducts; in this way, their intervention will have much more potential to be effective and generate peace building conditions among them, highlighting the empowerment of the communities themselves and the generational change, essential factors for peace building”.

 

In addition, they point out that the results of the research of the graduate student of the University of Cauca, become a contribution to the access to natural resources of the inhabitants of rural areas of Colombia, particularly, in the most remote areas and deep in the country. This investigation will receive $ 20,000,000 pesos for its respective execution.

 

The second place was awarded to the research "Paths towards the agency of the peri-urban area of ​​the Combeima canyon", postulated by researcher professor Camilo Andrés Arciniegas Padilla, from the University of Tolima, and his work team made up of William Alfredo Chapman Quevedo and William Alexánder Medina Méndez.

 

In this edition of the Jorge Bernal Award, 16 universities and 17 social organizations participated, with 81 researchers, who presented 43 research projects on comprehensive rural development and peace. Two prizes are awarded, the first worth 20 million pesos and the second, worth 15 million pesos to finance research projects. These resources are granted by Cooperativa Financiera Confiar. The objective of the award was to support the realization of social research projects and in the ninth version it was aimed at graduate students and professors from Colombian universities and NGO researchers between 18 and 40 years of age.

 

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Camilo Ernesto Andrade Sossa

Coordinator

Master in Continental Hydro-biological Resources

Email: ceandrade@unicauca.edu.co