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The Bogotá Organic Statute --EOB, after the Spanish acronym-- set outs the relationships between the city central administration and its 20 local districts and provides the guidelines for a district-based decentralization in Bogotá. This paper gathers three viewpoints emerging from a recent research conducted by the inter-faculty research group at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, the "Urban Policy Group" that addressed the theme of the EOB. The main idea from these reflections is how the decentralization in Bogotá has been characterized based on the EOB, in relation to elements from different models allowing defining it as the result from a hybrid process. After a review of the EOB historic background in order to understand its origin, and, having explored the debates in the Constitutional Assembly in order to explain the different trends that inspired and brought it into existence as well as the political context back then, this paper provides a design of the decentralization in Bogotá and its particularities. This way, the characterization of the decentralization model in Bogotá is described as a hybrid process between the decentralization, deconcentration and delegation that sometimes favors the decentralization economic model and, sometimes, the political model. The final reflections lead to think that instead of "becoming blurred and/or modified" due to the effect of the planning and management devices that appeared later, it is the particularities of the "decentralization model adopted in the EOB" --i.e., its largely hybrid nature-- that allow understanding what happens when going from the guidelines produced by the city central administration to the formulation and implementation of the projects. This fact requires encouraging a more fluent dialogue between the central administration and the local districts to strengthen the spaces where the citizen's voice is present as a valid speaker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Around the world, healthcare organizations have had to accommodate to national and international regulations governing work and health. This process has been accompanied by the introduction of knowledge and practices coming from social and administrative sciences. In this encounter between the liberal reforms and the particular ways of managing the workforce, the circulating meanings play an important role because, to a large extent, the agendas, programs and interventions geared to towards workforce management depend on these circulating meanings to succeed. In this paper, meanings about work, worker, organization, human resources management and hiring that are currently circulating in a human resources department of a university hospital in Bogotá, Colombia, are presented. The qualitative design used in this paper aimed to collect the circulating meanings as well as their emotional correlative elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the author analyzes the conditions in which "another territoriality" manages to penetrate the symbol of the sectoriality which they are the educative public policies. After to define the limits of the educative public policy and the decentralization, in general, and the Colombian case, in individual, doing a file of the Colombian process of educative decentralization from 1982, analyzes the Program of charter schools in Bogota during the Administrations of Peñalosa In this paper, the author analyzes the conditions in which "another territoriality" manages to penetrate the symbol of the sectoriality which they are the educative public policies. After to define the limits of the educative public policy and the decentralization, in general, and the Colombian case, in individual, doing a file of the Colombian process of educative decentralization from 1982, analyzes the Program of charter schools in Bogota during the Administrations of Peñalosa and Mockus 2 that it little combines the subject treated about "pedagogy" with the subject, very controversial, of the management deprived of the educational ones and sample that yes is possible to construct one "another territoriality", different from the cradle in the school, and to practice therefore a new form of governance of its territory that it questions the "public education" and replaces the concept to him of "public service of education", rendered by" private" actors. Finally, a series of conclusions appears that insist on the fact that it is not clear if this local initiative is a conjuncture measurement or marks outline of a new territorial policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rainwater collection for domestic uses represents an interesting practice from the economical and environmental point of view. However, this solution is adopted due to the threat of the scarcity of water resources; it is not neutral from a sanitary perspective. This paper presents an analysis of the economical and technical viability of the its use as an alternative for irrigation purposes, as well as cleaning of facades and hard areas in the campus of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, Colombia). Three main aspects are developed in the paper: (i) estimation of the available rainwater volumes and the possible collection points; (ii) preliminary quality analysis of the collected rainwater; (iii) estimation of the construction costs for the basic infrastructure required to collect rainwater and estimation of the monetary savings obtained with the proposed solution. The results suggest that the use of rainwater is economically and technically viable, and that it may contribute with a sustainable management and development of the University's campus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is part of the Master's thesis in Social Policy "Female Stray Bodies: To a social construction of gender policy in Bogotá" like a result of my own work experience as a young state official of the Protection of Children and youth District Institute (or IDIPRON initials in spanish). During the research process we attempted to construct knowledge from the experience of those who were involved in the problem of study, questioning the construction of sexualities and gender in street contexts as well as the government response that support roles and gender stereotypes in District's social service programs, aimed at children and youth inhabitant of / in street. The purpose of the paper is to present the conceptual and methodological route for the construction of a new category: stray female bodies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the collective logic present in the public transport in Bogotá which established a qualitative study using the method of problematizing recursive. It was found that the logic is established based on complicity pacts. This practice has a bimodal character between drivers and people. The agreements are based on a tripod on the public senses that are deinstitutionalization, homogenization and degradation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper develops a reflection on the elements that concurred in the late nineteenth century in Bogotá to form the notion of aesthetic canon. For the analysis of documentary sources we will refer to two illustrated publications: El Papel Periódico Ilustrado (Illustrated Newspaper), managed by Alberto Urdaneta, and the Revista Ilustrada (Illustrated Magazine), managed by Pedro Carlos Manrique. Such publications define themselves as platforms for the formation of taste and, within a set of political, religious and cultural conditions, allow us to see new processes in the formalisation of specialised culture through institutions such as the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (National School of Fine Arts). The contribution of these illustrated publications becomes a reference to what will be the relation between art critique and the public, formulating notions of aesthetic appreciation and taste that we understand as programmatic in a project of civilisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the use of the stated-preference technique in a discrete choice experiment carried out to examine the behavior of car users concerning changes in parking costs in the central business district of Bogotá. The research seeks to determine the level of elasticity between parking costs and car use for work trips. First, the area of interest is selected, bearing in mind compatibility with other studies. Then, the experiment is designed taking into account variables such as costs, commuting time, parking time and walking distance from the parking lot to the workplace. A multinomial logit model is used in order to determine elasticity between the parking cost and the use of the car, and to experiment with the variables included in the model. The model shows that the elasticity between parking costs and car use is -0.13496, which is considered low when compared to international standards. However, the model indicates high sensitivity on the part of car users with respect to walking distances. This work contributes to improving parking pricing policies to discourage the use of cars in urban areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to provide an analytical framework on relevant aspects derived from the present research, which intended to explore and understand demobilized youth's subjectivity shifts, and the way some educational programs addressed to that community are coming to terms with them, as a part of those groups' process of return to civilian life. By the same token, a number of pedagogical reflections born from the educational experiences studied are brought into focus. Thus, this study intends to enrich the field of knowledge and discussion on the processes of return to civilian life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of the research project "The Effectiveness of Judicial Contempt Power in Writ of Protection Cases. A Case Study, Bogotá (2007)". Its purpose is to identify and analyze the variables that influence the effectiveness of contempt requests in terms of the satisfaction of fundamental rights. In order to do so, the research intended to have a quantitative approach with exploratory boundaries. The project examined a total of 431 files in criminal, civil, administrative, labor and family courts in Bogota in 2007. The study shows an overview of ineffectiveness of the legal instrument and the need for its reform, together with the development of new tools to promote compliance based on different theoretical perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents results from two research projects aimed at inquiring about socioeconomic stratification in Bogota from the perspective of its value as representation of social order and hierarchy. Although socioeconomic stratification was implemented as a targeting mechanism of subsidies for the poorest households with the objective to enable them to have domiciliary potable water, electricity, sewer, gas and telephone, the policy has deeply affected the way social differences are collectively evoked. Research results from projects conducted in Bogota between 2005 and 2007, based on a variety of sources and methods, are approached with a view on social representations as a group of ideas and practices that are collectively shared and socially generated. Conclusions deal with issues of stratification and socio-spatial segregation, as well as the present configuration of representations about social differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To assure the territorial governability in Colombia is to combine the government of territory and the governance of the territories, that is to say, primacy of the sovereign State and recognition of multiple actors in the public action. In the perspective of the "territorialization of public action", this paper shows results of the analytical use of a scheme of analysis of public policies in the territory developed by the author in previous works, for the case of social housing- VIS- public policy - in Colombia, illustrating the speech proposed with two cases. Taking as it bases the characterization of VIS public policy as a dual and hybrid policy and a typical case of "indispensable territoriality", of "secterritoriality" (combination of sectoriality and territoriality) and of "governmance" in the territories (combination of government of the territory and governance of the territories), reflections appear on the use of the "Metrovivienda instrument" during the three last administrations of Enrique Peñalosa, Antanas Mockus and Luis Eduardo Garzón like part of the VIS public policy in the Capital District of Bogotá (almost 7,000 000 of inhabitants). Also, the analysis of "successful projects" of new VIS as the one of Nuestra Señora del Rosario in provincial center of Chiquinquirá (50,000 inhabitants) allows to raise the public policy of VIS in Chiquinquirá like the example of the construction of "networks of project" and of combination of government of the territory and discretionary sectoriality. Both illustrations allow concluding on the challenge of the territorialización of the public action "bottom up". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper present shows results a study about seven cases producers ecologies horticultures around field lands Savanna of Bogotá, identification and characterization the type of management enterprise and interpreting the socials and cultures factors, the main activities of management the boarder and outward express la organization ship with of factors as yield production, participation in the productive cycle, the personals handling establishment, yours finances, the technology and yours relation with market intercourse about raw material dressing and foodstuff eco-friendly and the law community entails; simultaneally, inquire into significance of ecology production. Encounter similarity resemblance with profile finishing touches of Producer - impresario and Impresario-producer, beside evidence make one forms promoter manager Colombian: Management professional middle or small, with somebody characterize of empirical small management, resemble forms management agrarian transitionally or intermediates, unlike the farmers traditional familiar rustic and the management business by present organize go round around, one'sdoubles dynamic familiar and commercial business, mediated on several cases by value in living philosophy's producer agroecology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the context of the research financed by Universidad Nacional de Colombia, this paper reviews the specialized literature on human resource management in organizations. It determines the main theories that have served as a basis for research in this discipline and profiles the practical trends in human resource management as well as the academic debate at hand. It also highlights findings on how important persons are for building a sustained competitive advantage and how important the human resource management area is for obtaining organizational capabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A specific form of social mobility, spatial mobility, is examined in this paper. Likewise, social representations by residents of different social strata are analyzed. The research project that the current results are based upon, deals with the effects of the stratification policy on paying public utilities and with social mobility. Spatial mobility patterns towards and within Bogotá are reviewed, as well as the way its inhabitants move around in the city by socioeconomic stratum. Finally, representations related to moral categories and social stratifications in the city are examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is identify the main reasons for which the providers of health services in Bogotá outsource some of their services. The framework that supports the study is based on the central concept of developing core competences in the provision of services. The empirical component of the study involved 35 providers, public and private, of various levels of complexity. The main result is that the main reason for which hospitals use outsourcing is to reduce costs, and the second reason is the advantage that specialized firms have in certain areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]