A governança do planejamento regional da fronteira oeste a partir da participação popular: um estudo sobre os atores do plano estratégico de desenvolvimento 2015-2030

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the participation in the construction of the Strategic Development Plan carried out in 2015 and published in 2017, with the support of the State Government, COREDES, which, in addition to promoting regional development, brings popular participation to decision-making arenas. The study covers the 2015-2030 PED within the West Border region of Rio Grande do Sul in its thirteen municipalities: São Gabriel, Alegrete, Uruguaiana, Santana do Livramento, Rosário do Sul, Barra do Quaraí, Itacurubi, Itaqui, Maçambará, Manoel Viana, Quaraí, Santa Margarida do Sul and São Borja. In this process, aggregating the participation in the assemblies of coredes, together with the presidents, participating actors, for this purpose, the peculiarities and real needs of the populations of the Region were analyzed, as well as the characteristics of the participating population. The performance of these processes was evaluated in relation to the involvement of the participants, the failures in the course of the demands, analyzing the real popular participation, the stimulus to the formation of a more active and participative political culture, the analysis was carried out through the minutes , meetings, forms with the members, there is a real analysis of the demands, interests and needs of this Region, which within the State has a very worrying HDI (human development index), with low industrialization, with rather peculiar logistics and communication difficulties. Nevertheless, it should be considered within this work that addresses that the Region has border cities, twin cities with different needs from the others. The processes of construction of regional development councils, since 1994, have been important instruments of popular democratic action, which aim to balance regional differences, seeking sustainable growth and always seeking actions that minimize the core problems of the Regions through important instruments of governance and its own government planning. The PED has become a guide for long-term actions, with unique importance in the search for real regional development, measuring real needs.