Importance of citizen participation in the management of cultural heritage

Abstract

A documentary essay focused on addressing the management of cultural heritage, understood in this case, as a series of mechanisms where a group of social actors are actively involved at the local level, framed in the declaration of the Historic Center of Santa Ana de Coro as a cultural heritage of humanity. In particular, the main constraints to effectively enable community participation within the strategic heritage management processes are addressed, highlighting the normative framework of the country where it is aware of the executive promotion of local groups in decision-making on all matters related to their daily work and where they are directly affected by the actions to be implemented on these issues. The methodical strategy was bibliographic, taking as a material the essay, on the one hand, the office of declaratory of the city of Coro and La Vela as cultural heritage of humanity. The document ends by highlighting the importance of all actors with decision-making power, in order to generate pedagogical environments aimed at promoting citizen training in the topic of cultural heritage and thus serve as a vector to raise awareness of its importance as a potential livelihood with the pressing need to preserve it to preserve its legacy to the generations to come.