Agora o Nordeste vai: experiência de desenvolvimento local: o caso do município de Tejuçuoca, Ceará

Abstract

This research consists of the study on the performance ofthe Program of Support for Local Development carried out by Banco do Nordeste (Bank of the Northeast), in the specific case of Tejuçuoca, state Ceará. The goal of the study was to assimilate how such Program actually contributes to the development of rural áreas of the brazillian Northeast For such, usedqualitative research method, thus interpreting reality from the comprehension of the meaning on the behalf of its beneficiaries. First of ali, an existing specific reasonability was observed amongst the group studied, whose main production factor is family labor. The social-economic and environmental adversities lead them to the elíaboration ofstrategies whose goal is to grant the survival of the family members. It was also observed that the Programas chief offer was a directioned capacitation for the management and rationalization of the production process, as seenfrom a managerial pointofview. The group, on the other hand, pointed to financial resources capable of making their production conditions feasible, or improving them (land aquisition, production funding, labor-saving techniques fimding, funding of the commercialization of production surplus) as its maindemand. The "approval" or "disapproval" of the Program occurred as the Program went on to fulfill such demand. Despit the difficulties along the way, the Prograrn s greatest merit was its capacity of promoting the increase ofthe individuaPs value as a citizen, by allowing him to experience the growth ofcitizenship during the training process.