Gestão municipal e direitos humanos

Abstract

The municipal public administration plays a fundamental role in protecting, defending, and promoting human rights. One of its main functions is the provision of public services that meet local needs regarding the realization of human rights. The work began with an in-depth review of the national literature that generated the article “Local Public Management and Human Rights: A bibliometric study in national literature”, submitted to the Humanities and Innovation. The second paper analyzes the governance instruments of municipal management in human rights, particularly the actions implemented for selected vulnerable groups, aiming to create a general indicator of municipal management performance using the Item Response Theory technique. In addition to enabling a comparative assessment of local governments in human rights, the approach allows identifying actions with greater or lesser implementation, providing managers with the possibility of identifying points in which they need to improve their performance. With the results obtained, it was possible to create performance levels of municipal management in human rights and make comparisons between regions of Brazil.