Análise da transparência de conselhos municipais: reflexões sobre os conselhos de saúde, educação e assistência social de um município brasileiro

Abstract

This article addresses the transparency of the Health, Education and Social Assistance Councils in the Municipality of Santana do Livramento in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, considering that they are high induction councils, that is, they receive incentive from the federal government for the implementation of local public policies. The overall objective of the work was to analyze the level of transparency in such councils. To this end, the transparency index of municipal councils (ITCM) proposed by Reinecke (2021) was applied with its indicators, in a descriptive study of qualitative approach method, using data collection from the analysis of the city hall portal and also from field research through interviews with the presidents of the councils and monitoring of meetings. Among the main results obtained, the lack of visibility of information concerning the functioning of these instances of public management to the population stands out.