Juntas de Acción Comunal y gobernanza rural: Retos para la participación y organización comunitaria en seis territorios de Nariño, Colombia

This article explores the potential of Communal Action Boards (jac, for its initials in Spanish), basic instances for communities’ organization and participation in Colombia, to engage themselves in networks of rural governance. We present the findings from a multiple case study with rural communities of six municipalities in the Department of Nariño. This community-based participatory research points territorial governance issues and jacs’ transversal challenges that unveil intra-organizational dynamics and the imposition of sectoral and bureaucratic logics that, altogether, affect the state-society relationships and endanger communities’ organizations and their impact in the rural context.