Gestão municipal do Programa Bolsa Família nos municípios da Quarta Colônia de imigração italiana: enfoque sobre o controle social

Abstract

This work is a reflexing about the interaction of social control of the “Bolsa Família” Program, based on a research developed in the nine cities of the Forth Colony of Italian Immigration, in Rio Grande do Sul. Its main objective is to investigate the action of Social Control in the administration of the “Bolsa Família” Program in a municipal level, being that this program’s management is shared with the three levels of government (cities, states and Union), being the social control one of the tools of this process. This kind of work is justified by the importance and the need to improve the acting of these social control instances in the construction of a democratic and participative management, granted and legalized by the Federal Constitution, but still with effectuation difficulties in all the levels of government. For this, the work searches for the answer for the following questions: The management by social control is realized? This management tool works? This research was performed in a qualitative mode, the collecting of data was made by in loco visits, document verifications and application of a questionnaire with open questions. After analyzing the results we can conclude that, to function, the Social Control instance of the “Bolsa Família” Program must be a pre-existent council of Social Assistance policy. Furthermore, the Municipal Managers of the program are acting insecure, restricted to insert data in the systems and avoiding to get involved in the Social Control Instance, providing it a minor importance in the Municipal Public Administration.