La Trata de Personas es un delito presente en la mayoría de los países del mundo y también en Bolivia. Según datos del Ministerio Público boliviano, desde el año 2012 hasta junio de 2015 se registraron 1.340 casos de Trata, siendo el 73% de las víctimas niños, niñas y adolescentes. El Estado Boliviano, en el año 2012, promulga la Ley Integral contra la Trata y el Tráfico de Personas No. 263, que incluye tres componentes clave: prevención, protección y persecución, siendo la protección a la víctima el componente menos impulsado por el Estado. Ante este vacío la sociedad civil, mediante una acción de incidencia, impulsa al Gobierno a construir un Protocolo Único de Atención a Víctimas de Trata y Tráfico de Personas, convirtiéndose en un instrumento oficial de aplicación obligatoria; sin embargo, este instrumento aún no logra ser aplicado. La presente Tesis hace una sistematización del proceso de construcción del Protocolo de Atención con el propósito de identificar las buenas prácticas y desafíos resultantes del proceso de su elaboración, a fin de contribuir con recomendaciones para la adopción de estrategias y mecanismos que faciliten su aplicación. La investigación se apoya en una metodología cualitativa, siendo las técnicas de recolección las entrevistas semiestructuradas y la revisión documental. Estas técnicas fueron aplicadas a los actores que participaron en el proceso de diseño del protocolo, servidores públicos y representantes de las ONG de la sociedad civil. Los ejes temáticos abordados fueron: i) grado de coordinación y colaboración entre actores, ii) capacitación y competencias en el tema del marco legal y políticas nacionales sobre Trata, iii) percepciones sobre el proceso del diseño del Protocolo de Atención, iv) control social. Asimismo, se realizó el análisis documental necesario, además de revisar el registro fotográfico de los eventos en que se diseñó el protocolo de atención. 3 Desde el campo de la Gerencia Social es importante el emprendimiento y gestión en la aplicabilidad de las políticas públicas. En ese sentido, la Tesis genera recomendaciones que permitirán al Estado y la sociedad civil facilitar la implementación del Protocolo de Atención a Víctimas de Trata, considerando que, hasta el presente, el Protocolo aún está siendo revisado para su actualización. Asimismo, las recomendaciones buscan contribuir al diseño de otras políticas públicas, en las que la participación de la sociedad civil organizada no esté enfocada solamente en la fiscalización al quehacer de la autoridad estatal, sino, por el contrario, que se constituya en una participación propositiva, siendo un sujeto activo en el seguimiento a las políticas públicas. Es decir, pasar de la confrontación a la asociación. / Tesis

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Throughout Latin America the conservative terms established at the outset of democratization, which often limited the scope of democracy for the preservation of stability, have been exhausted. Coinciding with the emergence of the Latin American left, the initial terms of democracy are being redefined through the reconstitution of the state and the renegotiation of the role of the state in the economy. These phenomena are presently and precipitously unfolding in Bolivia. Bolivia’s failure to establish substantively democratic institutions resulted in a political-economy orientation incongruent to the preferences of the electorate. The electorate was forced to push their interests by means of increasingly assertive social movements, which coalesced, forming viable leftist party alternatives. Seeking to redefine the parameters of the state, the actualization of the left’s nationalization agenda reversed decades-old policies of privatization that had been maintained through pacted executive legislative relations. In redefining Bolivian democracy, the left has confronted a resistant opposition, which has thrust the country into a political impasse, the outcome of which has yet to be determined.

Tesis de grado para obtener el titulo de Licenciatura en Biologia, Universidad Mayor de San Simon, Facultad de Ciencias Y Tecnologia, Carrera de Biologia. / Abstract in Spanish and English.

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Throughout Latin America the conservative terms established at the outset of democratization, which often limited the scope of democracy for the preservation of stability, have been exhausted. Coinciding with the emergence of the Latin American left, the initial terms of democracy are being redefined through the reconstitution of the state and the renegotiation of the role of the state in the economy. These phenomena are presently and precipitously unfolding in Bolivia. Bolivia’s failure to establish substantively democratic institutions resulted in a political-economy orientation incongruent to the preferences of the electorate. The electorate was forced to push their interests by means of increasingly assertive social movements, which coalesced, forming viable leftist party alternatives. Seeking to redefine the parameters of the state, the actualization of the left’s nationalization agenda reversed decades-old policies of privatization that had been maintained through pacted executive legislative relations. In redefining Bolivian democracy, the left has confronted a resistant opposition, which has thrust the country into a political impasse, the outcome of which has yet to be determined.

Neighbourhood trade-stores, or small scale retail outlets specialising in domestic provisions sold in small quantities, are common features of residential landscapes in developing countries. While these shops are fixtures in the everyday micro-geographies of urban places, little is known as to how they are economically and socially bound up with the neighbourhoods in which they are situated and, in turn, how these linkages influence the day-to-day life circumstances of local people. Through such a local-level investigation utilising multiple qualitative methods, I examine the intra-neighbourhood economic and social roles of small trade-stores in an urban neighbourhood in Cochabamba, Bolivia. My analysis reveals that trade-stores were a key influence on the welfare of neighbourhood residents. Economically, these shops functioned as safeguards for family economies by providing multidimensional material support. Socially, trade-stores acted as mechanisms for informal social control, nodes of local information exchange, and sources of local social opportunities and social support.

The tropical glaciers in the Bolivian Andes Mountains are small and respond quickly to changes in their climate. They are also a major source of freshwater year-round for nearby communities. Monitoring the glacial changes taking place in these glaciers has become increasingly important as they have been retreating over the past century. These glaciers are remote and the terrain treacherous making it potentially dangerous to gather data through field work. For this reason and because of advances in remote sensing technologies the use of satellite images has become the primary means to study these tropical glaciers in detail. This research study focuses on the Cordillera Apolobamba range located on the Peruvian-Bolivian border. It is an example of the methodology applied to assess the area covered by glaciers in this and other regions around the world. Using Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) images from 1985 to 2010, as well as the Glacier Inventory of Bolivia, the glacier extents of the Apolobamba are mapped. From 1975 to 2010 the portion of the range located within Bolivia's border lost 110.76 km^2 of surface ice lowering its total area from 240.36 km^2 to 129.60 km2, a 46.08% reduction. From the 1985 to 2010 the entire Apolobamba range lost 102.72 km^2 of ice lowering its total area from 261.07 km^2 to 158.35 km^2, a 39.35% reduction. An analysis of atmospheric conditions was conducted at the 500 hPa level for various climate variables using NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data. Between time period one (1975-1986) and two (1987-1995) the climate variables exhibiting a statistically significant change are air temperature with an increase of .165 degrees C and geopotential height with an increase of 2.967 m. Between time period two and three (1996-2005) the climate variables exhibiting a statistically significant change are freezing level with a 50.017 m increase, precipitation with an 60.604 mm/month decrease and wind velocity with an increase of .373 m/sec. According to the analysis conducted using the Oceanic Nino Index, the monthly sea surface temperatures exhibit no statistically significant change from 1975-2005.

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