As particularidades das ações estratégicas do programa de erradicação do trabalho infantil (PETI) no município de São Borja/RS

Abstract

Child labor as an expression of the social issue has generated different demands for the state, society and the families of children and adolescents who, as a result of precarious insertion in the world of work, have their rights violated. It is necessary to advance in the understanding that the confrontation of child labor requires the articulation of efforts of different sectors of society and of different public policies, being indispensable the presence of the State not in a minimal or timid way, but focused on the universalization of social rights. This Course Conclusion Paper (CCP) in Social Work consists of a qualitative exploratory research that analyzes the particularities of coping with child labor in the municipality of São Borja, especially with regard to the institutions that integrate the Guarantee System of the Child and Adolescent Rights (GSCAR) and the strategic actions of the Child Labor Eradication Program (CLEP). In this sense, the following research problem was elaborated: “How do the particularities of PETI's strategic actions put determinations on the confrontation of child labor in the municipality of São Borja?”. The present study is based on the dialectical historical materialist method, using documentary research as a data collection technique. The document used in the data analysis is the PETI Monitoring System Report (PETIMSR). The study shows that GASCAR institutions have developed actions that contribute to the fight against child labor, but without including this theme in the objectives of the programs, projects, services and actions that develop children, adolescents and families from São Borja. It also shows that, regarding the strategic actions of CLEP, the Information and Mobilization axis presented the largest number of actions carried out by the Intersectoral Working Group to Fight Child Labor in the municipality. Thus, actions focused on Social Protection, Identification, Defense and Accountability, as well as Monitoring need further planning and more effective interventions to address child labor and other forms of violation of rights with which articulates.