Public policies on youth: a factor for development and participation in Norte de Santander and San José de Cúcuta

Abstract

After the frustrated and inoperative law enforcement 375 of 1997, called also Law of the Youth, and after being an
only one substantial norm, in the year 2013, and after multiple attempts of modification there created the law 1622
DE 2013 named Statutory Law of Juvenile Citizenship that not only extended the time to consider a young person, but
it gave major empoderamiento to the young man inside its spaces of participation and representation, turning the
councils of youth into stages more than simply advisory to turn them into instances of decision of binding character
with regard to its decisions.
By virtue of the previous thing, it was necessary to do well-known which it was the juvenile reality in the municipality
of San Jose of Cúcuta and in the North department of Santander, identifying if the youth participation stages existed
and were visible facing the problems that faces this population sector. In the same sense, it became necessary to
verify which it was the approach that has happened to the politics of youth framed inside the current Statutory Law
of Youth, which at present are applied, for effects of determining its relevancy and efficacy.