Plano de Ações Articuladas (PAR) no município de Amélia Rodrigues – BA: da representação da sociedade civil à participação – (2007-2014)

Abstract

This research analyzes the participation and the representation of the subjects responsible for the elaboration and monitoring of the Articulated Actions Plan (PAR), in the municipality of Amélia Rodrigues - BAHIA, from 2007 to 2014. Therefore, the study chose as central question of research: How did the different subjects participate in the process of preparing and monitoring of the PAR? How did they become agents of social mobilization and active representatives of civil society for the development of the Plan? The PAR is an instrument created by the Federal Government, in 2007, in the management of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with the purpose of improving the quality of education through the implementation of educational programs, in collaboration between the Union, states, municipalities and Federal District. The objective was to analyze the participation and representation of the subjects in the preparation and follow-up of the PAR. The purpose was also to verify the implications for mobilization of the civil society and in the results achieved, about the plan and its development. The research has qualitative character and used as data collection instruments the documentary analysis and the semi-structured interview, taking as main categories of analysis the concepts of participation, representation and civil society. The research has as reference the assumptions of the praxis philosophy of Antonio Gramsci (1973), (1982), (1984). The data from the study consisted of oral sources and official printed and digital documents that instituted, regulated and guided the production and monitoring of the PAR, in the period 2007 to 2014. It was used also the minutes of local team meetings. It was identified that in 2008 the political context of municipal elections, together with the technical limitations of the local team, negatively influenced the first elaboration of the PAR, generating a plan with some inconsistencies about the educational reality of the municipality. It was verified that in the second period the members of the local team were more participative, without, however, establishing links with their represented. The study concluded that there was no continuous and effective process of civil society mobilization for the production and monitoring of PAR actions in the municipality of Amélia Rodrigues, revealing that the participation of the subjects was formal, without a power sharing but of accountability. These subjects did not establish interlocution with their represented, so that their performance was insufficient, about the active participation in the sense of having and giving part in the actions.