2012-11-052012-11-052009-11-03MIRANDA, Henrique Rodrigues de. Planejamento participativo, desenvolvimento local e metodologias participativas: projetos de intervenção e participação em pequenas comunidades rurais da Amazônia paraense. 2009. 190 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Pará, Núcleo de Meio Ambiente, Belém, 2009. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Gestão de Recursos Naturais e Desenvolvimento Local na Amazônia.https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/3121This study examines possibilities and constraints of participatory planning as a tool for building local (community) development at Amazonian rural communities from their local potentialities (social and institutional networks and natural resources) and territorial links to their neighbourhood area. Particularly, the study analyses a quilombola community called Itacoã-Miri located at município of Acará, Pará State. The research central question is: to what extent does people participation on community development project mean incorporation of empirical local knowledge and community demands to legitimate a planning process? The theoretical framework is based on the following literature: (a) meanings and interrelationships between planning, development and participation; and, (b) informal knowledge for sustainable development choices. In addition, the research also takes into account the concepts of social networks and local organisation for their links to the main research debate. The theoretical framework has been used to understand the links that has been established between governmental institutions and local organisations (associations, groups of production, co-operatives, etc.) and also between local government actors and ordinary people for building up local development projects using the approach of participatory planning. Its particular focus is on the Brazilian Amazonia. The unities of analysis were a social group that was formed to build up a local development project and the participatory process carried out by them to raise the project. This was for three basic reasons: Firstly, because a social group is the political arena where individual actors interact between each other; secondly, because it is the arena where social actors implement their meaning of social participation; and, thirdly, because is inside a social group that internal and external (and also formal and informal) relationships take place to make participatory planning effective. The study concludes that most of regional and community planning carried out by federal and regional government from 1970s to the end of 1990s failed for three reasons: (1) firstly, because there were gaps between local people demands and government actions; (2) secondly, the regional planning did not take into account the intercultural differences between local people and government staff; and (3), thirdly, the non-existence of a participatory tool for people involvement in the planning process. The study applied an innovative methodological framework for community people participation in project planning and then found that local people have great cognitive capacity to participate from their empirical knowledge and that their knowledge is a result of their historical involvement with diverse spaces of interaction with external (governmental and non-governmental organisations) actors. However, the study shows that macro political scenario has large (positive and negative) influence on the level of people participation in a planning process.porAcesso AbertoDesenvolvimento localDesenvolvimento sustentávelPopulação ruralPlanejamento participativoParticipação socialPolítica ambiental - Amazônia - Participação do cidadãoComunidade - Desenvolvimento - Acará (PA)DissertaçãoCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA::SOCIOLOGIA DO DESENVOLVIMENTO