Parcerias para o desenvolvimento social: uma análise do PVC - programa vale cidadania

Abstract

The effective and efficient management of the social área encounters adverse and challenging conditions that shows new configurations of the three basic supports components of the contemporary society in an high levei. In fact, we noted the redeflnition of the roles and nature of the State and the market (companies) and the Third Sector, in search of the co-responsibility as fundamental element ofthe strategies of action ofsocial intervention including the same ones. The goal is the sustainable social development reached by means ofnecessary partnerships. It was by that way that emerged the experience ofthe Vale Cidadania Program (VCP) that seeks to promote the strenghten of the social entities in the Vale do Aço, by means of actions of mutual intersectorial cooperation. Appropriated to the model developed for VCP, an articulate social project by the Acesita Foundation, was born the objective of this real work that is to characterize and to study the process offormation ofthe partnerships that compose the referred program. The idea is to take it as parameter for other similar initiatives. In the intention of corresponding to that objective, it was delineated a theoretical reference on the nature ofthe organizations that form the Third Sector fleld, as well as ofthe essential bases ofany partnership process. In that way, it was possible to dialogue or to argue with the empiric data collected in the research fleld ofthe Vale do Aço. So, the engineering ofthe partnerships of VCP was analyzed and the results showed the importance of the balance of variables and the inherent interests ofthe actors involved in the partnerships, not iosing of view the complexity of the social área. Those variables are about the organizational mission of the partnerships; their objectives; the role of the intermediate agents; the clarity ofthe advantages and limiting points; the kinds of partnerships that can be configured; and the possibilities of the characterization of a network. In the studied program, it was noticed that the challenges to reach the proposed objectives are various, mainly in the way of superating the existing interest conflicts.