Brejão, Claro dos Poções: avaliação de um projeto de combate a pobreza rural

Abstract

This dissertation proposes to carry out the evaluation of a public policy to combat rural poverty implemented in the rural community of Brejão, city of Claro dos Poções / MG. The research carried out a case study of the project of a flour factory implanted to twelve years, with the objective of verifying the effectiveness of this project in the fight against poverty. The Rural Poverty Combat Project (PCPR / MG) is a rural public policy that has been implemented in the North and Northeast of Minas Gerais since 1986. However, studies indicate that numerous projects were abandoned by the communities that received them soon after their implementation or have had effectiveness in fighting poverty, the concept of which is defined by international organizations such as the World Bank. Brejão became well-known in the region when it received in 2008 the Vice President of the World Bank to learn about the projects that had been recently installed. Ten years after this visit, the project has not yet been effective in combating poverty in this locality, according to our evaluation proposal. This paper intends to discuss some of the variables that contribute to the inefficiency of a project. Among them we observe that public managers need to know more about the locality, to listen, to observe and to try to identify potentialities and deficiencies through appropriate methodologies. Although PCPR / MG presents itself as a participatory public policy, in which beneficiaries democratically define their own demands, the methodology of the program is excessively bureaucratic, involves decision levels above the community, and usually has little time for elaboration.