Participação no processo de elaboração do plano plurianual de Macapá - AP (2014-2017): uma análise exploratória e preliminar sobre a ótica dos atores socias

Abstract

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.