Antidrug Councils: between dream and reality
Name: FABIOLA XAVIER LEAL
Publication date: 25/07/2006
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| MARIA LUCIA TEIXEIRA GARCIA | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| MARIA LUCIA TEIXEIRA GARCIA | Advisor * |
Summary: The policies of confrontation to the improper use of drugs have if developed throughout 67 years and of this context, this Dissertation consists of a Study of Case on the City councils Antidrogas (COMADs) of the State of the Espirito Santo (ES). It has as objective to analyze the COMADs searching to identify as the formularization of the Municipal Policies Antidrogas occurs; to analyze its abilities and attributions; to identify and to analyze the composition; to verify as the civil society is represented in these spaces and as its participation occurs; to identify and to analyze the developed actions; to verify if the abilities established in law they guarantee to the COMADs forms of active
participation in the management of the policies antidrugs in the city; to identify and to analyze the main used strategies of decision in the COMADs. Of the 78 cities of the ES, only 26.9% had created COMAD being only 01 in functioning. A listing was mounted contends 21 councils (being that they had 19 sent some documentation and/or information). Telephonic contacts and visits to the cities with active or inactive councils had been carried through. For the collection of piece of information they had been used: documentary research and interviews group (Focal Group) and individual. For analysis of the piece of information it was used content analysis. The COMADs had been
focused from its institucional configuration and of the practical ones that they develop.
The analysis was structuralized in 2 axles: Process of Creation; Functioning and Maintenance of the Council. The majority (68%) appeared in 2001 and the maximum time of functioning was of approximately 3 years. The functions legally established these agencies had enclosed 04 fields of activity: Prevention; Fiscalization and Repression; Normative actions for functioning of the council; e Treatment. It is noticed that the Concil doesnt obtain to accomplish its deliberative character. The number of components of the council varied between 09 and 39 bearers, being the occupying civil society of the
biggest number of seats in 05 cities, presenting 08 main entities being the Church with bigger representation. E the governmental sphere in 14 cities, possesss 13 represented agencies, being the Government secretaries with bigger representation. The civil society was more present in the meetings (54%). The numerical parity occurred n 03 cities. It was identified that the Executive corresponds 69% of the representatives followed by Judiciary (17%) and the Legislative one (14%). The more frequent subjects of guideline had been: organization of the council (43%), qualification/ action of prevention (26%)
and Treatment (5%). The actions had limited it the accomplishment of lectures and municipal events of combat to the drugs. In a general way, the COMADs if configures as a phenomenon political, institucional, social and cultural, demanding theoretical and conceptual elaborations, historical incursions and empirical recitals that have to see with
the occured transformations in the relations between State and society in the country. The council had still not obtained to separate themselves of practical authoritarian and the imposing ones on the part of whom he withholds the command. The effective has been challenges for the council autonomy, continued formation of the council members,
transformation of the guideline in agenda, overcoming of the infrastructure conditions, culture of transparency and diffusion of information. What it is is that the process of formularization and implementation of the policies oscillates between what would have
to be and what effectively it has been.
