The popular participation in the Council of Rights of the child and the adolescent of Victory: promise or reality?
Name: JULIANA IGLESIAS MELIM
Publication date: 18/09/2006
Summary: The trajectory of the Brazilian social policies of attendance to the child and the adolescent in them did not leave a legacy of glories as for the citizenship of this parcel of the population. But in 1990, after the promulgation of the Statute of the Child and the Adolescent is that these had passed to be considered citizens of rights. Of this form, in the attempt to consolidate this new paradigm the Statute also foresees changes in the management of the social policies. One of these changes is the institutionalization of the Council of Rights of public, on the same level, deliberative and responsible the Child and the Adolescent, agency for formulating the policies come back toward infancy and the adolescence. The present dissertação consists of a study on the Council of Rights of the Child and the Adolescent of the city of Vitória (ES), involving three specific managements: 1993-1995, 1995-1997, 2002-2004. It has as objective to verify if the participation politics developed in the Council is compatible with the space formal instituted for such participation and, in negative case, to understand the reasons of the joined imbalance. For in such a way, they had been used as techniques of collection of data: the documentary research and interviews half-structuralized in depth. For analysis of the data it was used content analysis. The Council was focused from the perspective of democratization of the power to decide processes in the Brazilian society, marked for a culture politics that when he did not limit, completely restricted the popular participation of the decision spaces politics. Thus, the analysis was structuralized considering the following aspects: the composition of the Council, the representation of the council members, the objective of the insertion of the entities in the Council, the relation of the council member with the users who represents, the relation of the civil society with the public power, the vision of the council members on democracy, participation and on the using child and the adolescent of the policies formulated for the Council. The results found in allow them to affirm that even so the Council is a possibility of bigger popular participation in the direction of social politics e, on account of this, a space WHERE possible movements of against-hegemony of the popular sectors can be disclosed, the participation that if developed in locus of the present study still finds many limits to consolidate itself while such. In this way, the Council of Rights of the Child and Adolescent it of Vitória not yet obtained to fulfill, in ample way, the promise of democratization and bigger popular participation in the debate around the social policies come back toward the children and adolescents it city. The consolidation of the democracy and the participation in the elaboration of the policies, the effective autonomy of the council members and the entities of the civil society, the presence of the users in the power to decide process, the representation of collective interests has been challenge for the Council and consequently the formularization of universal and warranting social politics of rights.
