Gestión institucional y la restitución de los derechos de los niños y adolescentes de la Fundación Jardín del Eden

Abstract

This study was carried out in Jardín del Edén Foundation, a non-governmental organization that works with the method of institutional care of children and adolescents whose rights have been violated and who are in a situation of risk. This institution is located in the province of Cotopaxi in the city of Salcedo in the parish of Panzaleo. It has space to receive 60 children and adolescents that are temporarily or permanently deprived of their family environment in order to protect their best interest. The institution is currently going through a problem concerning the delay in the restitution of rights of its beneficiary population due to limited inter-institutional management. This is the reason why it has beendeemed necessary to carry out a study structured by two variables, independent and dependent, which are inter-related, andhas given rise to the topic: “INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT AND THE RESTITUTION OF RIGHTS FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN JARDÍN DEL EDÉN FOUNDATION”. The aim of the study is to analyze the way that institutional management influences the restitution of rights for children and adolescents and their importance for a social insertion that is founded in the comprehensive protection system where the enforcement of compliance of their rights is demanded. In the current Code for Children and Adolescents, it talks to us about the rights that boys and girls have and it tells us emphatically that they include identity and identification, food, health, education, information, care, clothing, a home, transportation as well as culture. The institution’s administration and technical team work in the tasks entrusted in them, however, it has been observed that there is a lack of staff in order to develop institutional management which will compliment a comprehensive social network of the restitution of rights. Thedelayed release of causes in the Family, Woman, Child and Adolescents Judicial Unit is one of the factors that greatly encourage the institutionalization of children and adolescents since long periods of stay in the institutions are created and provoke attachment and reliance on the institutions