O planejamento no programa de ATES no Rio Grande do Sul: reflexões a partir do caso do CETAP

Abstract

The discussion surrounding the planning and definition of actions has been gaining attention on the Technical and Social Environment Advice Program (ATES) of Rio Grande do Sul (RS). This study aimed to seek to understand the relevance of regional planning for the formation of action strategies ATES and carrying out the activities planned by CETAP under the RS ATES program in 2009-2014. For its realization were analyzed CETAP planning documents of the years 2010, 2011 and 2014 seeking to identify the operational strategies in two selected settlements in the Operational Nucleus of Vacaria. The settlements chosen were the Settlement Project Followers of Natalino and Settlements Project Three Pines, located in the municipalities of Ibiaçá and Sananduva respectively. In addition to the planning documents, information was analyzed in the ATES Monitoring System (SAMA / INCRA) in order to verify how much of the planned actions were executest as well, the instructions given in the technical visits. In addition, was performed interviews with focus groups of ATES team of CETAP and semi-structured interviews with some families with a view to interpret qualitatively information on the planning as: control, learning, emergency, strategy. Information were analyzed using the literature on planning in organizational theories, especially Mintzber Henry and Richard Whittington and planning literature in the context of public policy, where stands out the writings of Sergio Buarque. Among the survey's results it can be stated that in the period 2009 to 2014, the structure of ATES program's goals was gradually flexibilized, with a growing incorporation of planning by the teams and dwellers. This flexibility was made the CETAP could present working strategies differentiated for the two settlements, as these, even though they have similar geographical conditions, they have different social characteristics. Another result, refers to a significant difference between the planned actions and the actions being performed, results also appear in the literature on planning in the context of organizational theories. Still, it was evident the growing importance of teams and families in the planning process, the increasing flexibility of the goals that allowed greater emergency at the expense of control and change the top-down planning to bottom-up model, closer to local realities each camping. This process, in that it increases flexibility and reduces the possibilities of control, implies that the results (of planning of work ATES) in a context of "institutional pluralism" depend much more perspective of the provider and the quality of teams local techniques. That is, depends on the technical capabilities, commitment and involvement with work and the congruence of interests, values and ideas with major purposes that the ATES. In this scenario, the study indicates that the training work with the technicians gained increasing importance above the monitoring.