Gestão de equipamentos públicos comunitários: um estudo na comunidade de Covancas - MG

Abstract

The objective of this work has been the study of the process of participative management of small rural producers in management of community public equipment of a government program called "Program of Support to the Small Rural Producer" (PSSP), in the Association of Workers and Small Rural Producers from Covancas (AWSPRC), at Francisco Dumont City, Minas Gerais. It's important because deals with a community association created as a result of the colletive interest of small rural producers, attempting to recover their social and economical situation in order to minimize regional differences. In order to observe the social and economical transformations that have processed in the community, the work is forended on theories of participation and participative management applied to the community association of Covancas in the management of its received public equipments. After doing the analysis of data and contents of interviews, it was concluded that the community association has demonstrated, in practice, that the colletive participation of its members was and has been fundamental for the process of management of the public equipments, because it articulates actions upon social and economic development of the community. It has been noticed that collective participation makes the association stronger, when directors and members debate and give priority to activities of general interest, without political, religions, or lucrative purposes, as well as the participative management process becomes powerful when the association elaborates its annual planning and the model of "Rules of Utilization", and also observes the evolution, evaluate and manage the activites developed with the public equipments. So, the analysis allows us to suggest that the intervention of the State in community associations of the RMNe (Northeastern Region of Minas Gerais) must constitute an instrument of material support to basic infrastructure, to small productive and social projects and, above all, to the organization and participation of associations in the decision-making process and implementation of actions of their interest.