Gestão de consórcios intermunicipais: o caso do consórcio RIDES

Abstract

The political and administrative autonomy of the Municipalities has been a reality since the Federal Constitution of 1988. Although the Municipalities have the responsibility of executing public policies, they do not always have the financial capacity for this, especially the small Municipalities. In this context, joint management has been an alternative to municipal managers. Against this, in 2005 the Public Consortia Law is published as a way for the State to guide this relationship. In this context, in 2013 the Integrated Sustainable Development Region was created, which evolves into a Consortium called RIDES, composed of 10 Municipalities of Minas Gerais, such as Abadia dos Dourados, Cascalho Rico, Coromandel, Douradoquara, Estrela do Sul, Grupiara, Indianópolis , Iraí de Minas, Monte Carmelo and Romaria, based in Monte Carmelo. The objectives were to describe the process of formalization of the RIDES from the initial motivation to the formation of criteria for inclusion of cities; analyze the achievements and challenges for the operation of the RIDES; and propose, from the research diagnosis, a plan of action that collaborates with the management and strengthening of the RIDES and, inspire other managers of inter-municipal consortia. This research is limited in the field of applied social sciences. It is a case study, a method widely used to study a well defined entity, of a qualitative nature with exploratory and descriptive purpose. For this, interviews with semi-structured script were carried out, which were recorded, transcribed and studied by Content Analysis methods. It became clear that small municipalities are unable to meet all national policies, individually, for budgetary and technical reasons, favoring the formation of territorial arrangements such as intermunicipal consortia. In addition the RIDES had several achievements in its first quinquennium and that its main challenges of operation are in the managerial framework, without forgetting the political and cultural factors, therefore an Action Plan was suggested in the last one suggesting the use of OSM methods to improve communication organization and procedures, improve internal communication and with the consortium members, refine recruitment and selection and reduce turnover, favor working conditions, actions to reduce delinquency, sensitize consortium members to the importance of applying the resource, clarify the RIDES team and consortium members their assignments and proposals to reduce political-party interference in the management of RIDES.