Indicadores sociais e sua importância para a gestão pública municipal

Abstract

The research aims to show managers who work in the municipal public sector, who want to better understand the importance of social indicators in the formulation and implementation of programs, projects and actions in the needy areas within the municipalities, to understand and delve into what they are the social indicators, what they are for, how they are constructed and how they can be used in the elaboration of diagnoses. Social indicators gained great attention in academic debates, in technical-political discussion forums and in project proposals sent to Ministries, State Secretariats and City Halls. It is increasingly common to use indicators to assess advances or setbacks in the population's living conditions or job opportunities. As well as the need to use social indicators to justify the demand for resources for a given project to be forwarded to some instance of the governmental public power is frequent. From this, our work aims to analyze the performance of the municipal public manager in the systematization of the basic notions to build, use and interpret social indicators, identify the different sources of data, research, social reports and statistical information sites and indicators that seeks to provide municipal managers with basic elements to develop a system of comprehensive social indicators, so that they can institute and support the proposition of social programs and projects. Discuss the potential and limits of its application in the different stages of the cycle of formulation and evaluation of a public policy in the scope of the municipalities. The methodological procedures adopted in the research consisted of the type of exploratory research, as it involves a bibliographic survey, the nature was applied, as it is an objective that generates knowledge of practical application, the method was inductive, the objective was descriptive, as for the technical procedures, books, articles, electronic networks were used to carry out the research, our approach to the theme was framed in the qualitative-quantitative. The data obtained indicate that we are well served by data sources and social measurement instruments, but there is a lack of trained technical staff in the municipal management teams to interpret, employ and evaluate social indicators. Based on the results and discussions presented, we consider that economic growth is not always aligned with the improvement of social conditions, and that the biggest obstacle to the use of social indicators is the time desired by the manager for the return of a certain public policy.