Intercultural dialogue in development processes in the Yanesha and Asháninkas communities in the central jungle

Abstract

The objective of the study is to compare and describe the intercultural processes that occur in the Yanesha and Ashaninkas groups in the central jungle of the Peruvian territory, as efforts to achieve progress towards development, the method used was ethnographic and open interviews and participant observation aimed at native leaders and authorities in the area, were the investigation techniques. For the analysis, the strategies implemented in the health and education sectors were taken into consideration through some programs implemented by the different levels of government, from which various instruments and guidelines have been developed to promote an inclusive intervention with an intercultural approach, however, in practice, intercultural gaps remain, the indigenous population does not feel part of the development processes. The results show that it has not yet been possible to establish an adequate intercultural dialogue in the development processes in the central jungle since the exclusion and devaluation of the indigenous population persists in the face of other actors, with greater inequality and less dialogue in the Ashaninka communities, as well as Intercultural bilingual education, which represents an important space for dialogue, barely reaches 30% and in health the cultural relevance is highly centralized.