A gestão social no âmbito do programa de desenvolvimento territorial: o caso do território nordeste do Tocantins

Abstract

At the end of the eighties, there was the political opening and the end of an authoritarian model that lasted for a long time in Brazil. Since then progress has been made in relation to the increase of democracy. In recent decades, this democratic process has led to an increase in the debate about the participation of society in the construction and monitoring of public policies and in new proposals and models of development and management that are proposed as innovative in the case of Social Management. The study on social management is relatively recent and although we already see a wide literature, there is still no consensus about its theoretical conception, being therefore a field still under construction. At the same time, in the field of practice there are several initiatives that call themselves social management, among them the National Program for Territorial Development - PRONAT, created by the federal government in 2003. From this perspective, this study aims to identify the characteristics of social management in a governance body that was implemented based on the guidelines of this program: The Territorial Coordination Northeast of Tocantins. The study is based on the categories and criteria of citizen participation and characteristics delimited by scholars of the Program of Studies of Social Management - PEGS. The research was carried out through participant observation, interviewing, questionnaire application and territorial collegiate document analysis, using data analysis as the method of data analysis. The results pointed to the presence of practically all the criteria and categories defined by these scholars, although the need for improvement in all these aspects is verified so that the experience can be strengthened and consolidated as a privileged space of social management.