The purpose of this work was to perform an exploratory study on the phenomenon of
social participation, aimed at understanding how the inhabitants of the city of
Macapá-AP integrated and demanded their needs to the powers of the municipal
administration during the development process of the Multi-Annual Plan (PPA) city
hall in 2013, with a view to its implementation in the 2014-2017 period. In this study
were identified the positives, the difficulties and challenges of social actors involved in the process. For the theoretical contextualization of the research, was carried out a
brief explanation related to the concept of social participation, its constitutional
guarantee, experiences, achievements and difficulties as development
mechanism/control of public policies and on the importance of the city as a federal
entity in execution policies through the three constitutional organizers instruments of
government (PPA, LDO and LOA). The methodological approach applied was
exploratory qualitative, with documentary analysis, bibliographic studies, in addition
interviews with key stakeholders in the process. In the discussion, it was approached
the PPA as participatory practice, management control, instrument and,
simultaneously, a local experience of Participatory Democracy. The final
considerations pointed to the fact that the participatory preparation of the PPA of
Macapá City Hall schedule a social empowerment experience in the local
administrative policy. However, several limitations and challenges identified point to
the need for adjustments in the institutional design and expansion of the participatory
process of such magnitude that the agents involved can be inserted deeper into the
development of public policies, both in the planning stage, as in the phases of
execution and control.
|
