Desafios da participação e controle social do município de Santana do Livramento/RS

Abstract

This article deals with the theme of Participation and Social Control in order to identify the perception of councilors regarding the challenges of the Municipal Councils of Santana do Livramento, seeking to reflect on the participation of the Municipal Councils in relation to Public Policies and the guarantee of the rights of the citizen. This research is a case study carried out in the municipal councils of Santana do Livramento, characterized as qualitative, descriptive and data collection was performed through a semi structured interview and unstructured observation technique, with qualitative analysis. The result of the with the municipal councilors allowed to affirm that the participation social control in the municipality is still very limited which confirms that these do not have much autonomy to propose actions that aim at significant changes in the social reality where they are inserted. It also demonstrates that, although the councils are active, most of them do not have the recognition of municipal managers, which hampers the development of their responsibilities and inhibits participation and social control in municipal public management