O discurso e a prática da participação social no Projeto “Sanear Ananindeua”

Abstract

This study is about social participation in town planning projects because it is understood that is through the civil society participation in politics town preparation that will achieve an effective democratic management of cities. At this, this work accomplishes a study about the social participation of Jaderlândia and Maguariaçú residents in “Sanear Ananindeua” Project, and it has as an objective to identify in what extent the social participation is being contemplated in this project and if Caixa Econômica Federal (CAIXA) , as operator of this project, foments a participation that is in consonance with the democratic management of cities model, the time of this study is from 2006 until 2010. The social participation is the central theme of this study because the project is receiving resources of Acceleration of Increase Program (A.I.P.) and because currently the social participation in town planning projects is an exigency of Cities Ministry. To reach its objectives, this study prioritized the qualitative research, as well as bibliographic, documental and field research. As a result, it was identified that the municipal management of Ananindeua is far of be a democratic management, for does not guarantee a real participation for the project‟s beneficiaries, but just a symbolic participation where users has the smaller influence in project decisions and operations, despite this, they have the illusion of having a power with them.