Experience of training local actors in Santiago de Cuba as a practice of social innovation

The article shows a strategy for training local actors in the territory of Santiago in the period 2018-2020 as part of a project result Strengthening the capacities of local actors to achieve the inclusion of vulnerable groups in the local development of the Center Cuban and Caribbean Social Studies Dr. José A. Portuondo of the Universidad de Oriente. Based on the elaborated diagnosis of the training, advisory and methodological accompaniment needs in the area of Social Sciences for the governmental work of the Municipal Administration Council, the strategy actions are implemented. We work from an approach of social inclusion of vulnerable groups to local development and with the integrated perspective of integrated community work and various theoretical-methodological tools such as Sociocultural development project methodology, popular education, community communication and participatory self-development.