THE ROLE OF INTERSECTORIALITY IN EXTREME POVERTY POLICIES IN CHILE: THE CASE OF THE FAMILY PROGRAM IN THE CHILEAN SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEM

Abstract

Intersectoriality has been internationally recognized as an integral management model necessary to address the policies of the Social Protection System that seek to reduce the effects of the multi-causality of social problems. In this regard, the main challenge today lies in its implementation, so it is essential to know, for the Chilean case, how it works, as well as which are the factors that mediate its success, in order to generate feedback for its subsequent implementation. For this reason, this article seeks to answer these questions by taking the case of the Families Program, which seeks to overcome one of the greatest global challenges, such as extreme poverty.
In this way, we will review the proposals of different authors who, despite the little data that still supports intersectoriality, have problematized on it around the factors that affect intersectoriality, delving into the pro-integrity coordination, with its technical and political approaches proposed by Fabián Repetto (Repetto, 2009b, 2009a, Repetto et al., 2015), or from the approaches of communication and collaboration as factors developed by authors such as Winkworth & White (2011), Cunill-Grau (2014b), Corbett & Noyes (2008), all within the framework of the intersectoral role in social policies. Thus, the intersectoral role is related to the functioning of the Families Program from the logic of vulnerability and poverty, as well as in relation to the different components that outline the policy.