Uma perspectiva democratizante ao processo de controle da gestão do SUAS em Juiz de Fora - MG

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the Control function of the management of the Unified Social Assistance System in Juiz de Fora (Minas Gerais) from 2021 to 2023, with particular emphasis for indicators. This research is especially relevant since the investigation of what the indicators mean will serve as a support and a way forward to implement more democratic and participatory processes, while offering considerable clarity for entities and the population in meeting the essential elements of public management committed to democratic perspective. Some questions in the critical reflection are: does the lack of indicators to evaluate the entities implementing the Assistance Policy hamper a careful selection – appropriate to the principles and guidelines of the policy – in the public call processes? Does it allow a subjective assessment and the consequent persistence of a clientelism and conservatism bias with public-private partnerships which might be considered evasive even with the advent of Legislation (Federal Law No. 13.019, July 31, 2014 – MROSC)? The approach to achieve the results was the dialectical historical materialism, based on distinguished scholars in the field to establish the theoretical foundation, such as Souza Filho and Gurgel (2016), Boschetti (2009), Tenório (1997), Iamamoto (2007). Key concepts and contexts for the analysis are presented focusing on 38 partnership agreements signed between the Municipal Administration and Civil Society Organizations. A great effort was made to address underlying issues at the municipal level, moving from the concrete to the abstract aspects, with constant concerns referring to clear and implicit questions that convey whether Social Policy in Juiz Fora is managed by emancipatory principles that foster social well-being or it maintains an accommodating atitude towards the policy that reproduces models of clientelism operating fragmented actions, establishing poor living conditions for policy users. While developing this dissertation from the perspective presented here, the purpose to verify if management is understood as a dimension of the democratization committed to the construction of an empowered society is reinforced.