Gestão de territórios rurais – diretrizes e desafios: o caso do território campos e lagos na Baixada Maranhense

Abstract

The National Program for the Citizenship Territories - PRONAT, released on February 25, 2008 in the government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has emerged as a public policy of rural intervention of the Ministry of Agrarian Development - MDA / SDT, targeting the rural and regional development , overcoming poverty and reducing inequality. It is characterized by being an innovative strategy with regard to the institutional involvement, participation of civil society and in the management process where they were created territorial boards that constitute one of the program management bodies, which perform policy through a shared way between civil society and government, and the collegiate, the body that ensures the implementation and effectiveness of the management process in the territory. However, it faces a number of challenges for implementation of this policy in the territories. Thus, this study aims to describe how the Board through this new management format proposed by the government, has contributed to the development of the Rural Land Campos and Lagos - tret. To make the discussion of this thesis, we chose the Historical Materialism, which allowed us to make a critical analysis of the facts without losing sight of the political, economic contribution. At the beginning of the research was done bibliographical and documentary survey of primary and secondary sources, official sites of the Federal, State and Municipal Bodies. semi-structured and open, collective and individual interviews with codeter members, representatives of government and civil society were held. Interviewed the State Articulator, the Federal Delegate of MDA and the Advisory Technical territorial. As a result of research at first, it was found that the majority of participants rated as good the new territorial policy, with only small advances: increasing the level of participation of society, the organization of local groups and segments, creating spaces dialogue between government and civil society. However, it was also noticed by the same as on the stock intake placed by the program and major advances and with some depth of intervention for a real change in the territories should have happened. Another result obtained was a positive confirmation that the college has significantly contributed to the development of the territory and Fields Lakes. As one of the key challenges identified by respondents is the lack of participation and commitment of managers and secretaries at meetings and assemblies. Finally, it is concluded that there is still much to be done until really the true goals of overcoming poverty and reducing inequalities are achieved by the program and be realized through the execution of public policies.