Observatório social do Brasil: instrumento de controle social da gestão pública

Abstract

In Brazil, citizens coexist at all times with the absence of quality public services that, to a certain degree, result from a high level of systemic corruption, mismanagement, lack of efficiency and efficiency in the application of public resources, while Internal and external control, and the Fiscal Responsibility Laws, among others, are not enough to promote accountabillity. Thus, the objective of this research is to analyze the contributions of the Social Observatory of Brazil for the exercise of social control of public management. For this, the research aims to identify how, and in what intensity, the Social Observatory of Brazil has contributed as an instrument of social control of public management in Brazil. The study counts on the collection of secondary data through bibliographical and primary research concerning the semistructured interview with OS leaders and also a field survey through a questionnaire (survey) sent to 101 Observatories that make up the OSB network, of the Which 74 responded to the survey. The data surveyed allowed to describe the Social Observatory of Brazil and identify the main practices used for social control; To relate the performance of the Social Observatory of Brazil to the social control of public management. The research identified that the work carried out by the Municipal Social Observatories in the last two years has resulted in an estimated savings to the public coffers above R $ 810,254,821.48 (millions of reais), values identified by the Social Observatories methodology. This figure was reached on the basis of 7,988 projects carried out with the participation of 1,486 volunteer members. The results verified are expressive and indicate that the social control of the public administration implies in gains of quality, economy and better application of the public resources in benefits of the citizens.