Diez años del sistema de promoción y protección de los derechos de la niñez y la adolescencia: un balance desde el Conurbano Bonaerense

Abstract

This article deals with the institutional build-up ofnew areas for children and adolescents in municipalitiesof Buenos Aires Province close to Buenos Aires City.Findings of a qualitative research conducted in two municipalsettings (La Matanza and Quilmes) together withan institutional analysis, enable us to critically asses someaspects in the design, regulations and implementation ofpolicies addressed at children and the adolescent at thelocal level, in addition to some observations on the coordinatingrole performed by the provincial government´s administrative agencies. According to our findings theprevalent institutional focus on the domestic-family environmentin the attention of cases of human rights violations,to the detriment of the expansion of programsaddressed at the promotion and access to rights ,leads toa short-sighted as well restrictive view of the policy transformationsaimed at by normative regulations. The interventionsoriented towards the enforcement of rights alsoconfront with limits in their capability to function undera logic of co-responsibility. An allegation is made, then,for a “new architecture” taking into account the scope ofpolicies for childhood and adolescence at the local leveltogether with a definition of the problem these areas dealwith, and a territorial overview on social policies.