Banco de alimentos e restaurante popular: um estudo sobre as políticas públicas de combate à fome

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the perceptions of political and social actors about the difficulties in the implementation of Municipal Public Policies to Fight Hunger, in Santana do Livramento / RS. The approach used was qualitative, exploratory and descriptive, adopting the field study method with participant observation. As data collection techniques, interviews and observations were carried out in secretariats belonging to the municipal public management and in a deprived neighborhood of Santana do Livramento / RS. For the notes of the observed facts, a field diary was used during the interviews. Interpretative analysis was used as a form of data analysis. At the end of this study it was concluded that the difficulties in the implementation of Public Policies to fight hunger in the city of Santana do Livramento / RS, exist due to a multitude of factors, among them the lack of a satisfactory interaction between the actors that form the Public Policies, financial limitations of the current municipal management, lack of places to operate a Food Bank and a Popular Restaurant, among others. The study brought as a priority, the concern to alleviate the problem of hunger, pondering the need for local municipal management to be more active with the needy communities.