Estudo do processo do orçamento participativo implantado em Montes Claros/MG

Abstract

Municipal managers have adopted different ways to drive their governments in relation to the elaboration and execution of the public budget, some choose for a municipal management where the public budget is made by the municipal managers with theirs rulers, others used to ask the population about how the public budget have to be used, this kind of government is called the Participatory Budget (PB). The general objective of the study was to analyze the process of Participatory Budgeting implemented in Montes Claros / MG between 2005 and 2008. Analyzing the configuration of this proposal participatory management in an attempt to check difficulties in implementing this process of PB in a society that has salient features of conservatism in the way of making politics. Were discussed about issues of participation involving theories of democratic models. Then approach on Budget and Public Participatory Budgeting. We have made a brief survey of the historical and political context of Montes Claros showed that local features marked by traces patronage, political favors and with little political culture of participation. In short, the study shows how was the process for lifting the demands, the percentage of works executed in the PB as well as a comparison between managements regarding the distribution of public resources. When analyzing the process of implementing the PB in Montes Claros, the results showed that occurred some difficulties during the process that ended up interfering with the ongoing of the same. They also evidenced that there was a commitment from local government to meet the demands raised by the participants of the PB. Thus, the research shows that despite the difficulties and obstacles that there is in this experience of Participatory Budgeting in Montes Claros was possible to implement a proposal for participatory management in this region, and that the main objective of this model of municipal management is awareness and encouragement for the development of a culture of political participation.