Escalar la solución: del Diseño de una herramienta de prevención a la creación de Protocolos comunitarios de protección contra la violencia

Abstract

The following writing analyzes from the perspective of Design for Transition a pilot project for the prevention of intrafamily and gender-based violence carried out in San Pablo, a coastal commune belonging to the province of Manabí, Ecuador. Through the design of an analog tool, the project provides information to identify, prevent and report violence to women who do not have regular access to means of communication such as landlines, smart phones or the internet and who run the risk of remaining isolated give while being abused. Through the mapping and analysis of the network of perverse problems that contain the project, it is intended to identify the main agents of the system to develop strategies that, far from proposing prescriptive or “correct” processes, allow the creation of adaptable and scalable processes that allow to envision altogether preferable futures and impact not only the community of San Pablo but also influence a change at the cultural level where this type of violence is no longer understood as a private problem and is now treated as a violation of rights human beings that profoundly affect communities and whose eradication requires commitment over time, adaptability and collaboration of both government institutions, private sectors and citizens in general.