Orçamento participativo: um estudo acerca da participação popular na elaboração dos orçamentos públicos nos municípios de Brumado e Guanambi, Estado da Bahia

Abstract

The present study deals with the Participatory Budget and popular participation in the municipalities of Brumado and Guanambi, located in the Sertão Productive Identity Territory of the State of Bahia, which were selected because they are the most representative in demographic and socioeconomic terms of the territory. The problem that guided the present study was born from the following question: Does the population's participation in budget discussions in the municipalities of Brumado and Guanambi contribute to the application of public resources with greater effectiveness? This research’s main objective as to understand and describe the applicability scenario of the participatory budget planning in the municipalities of Brumado and Guanambi, the implementation of the Participatory BudgetPB and popular participation in the process. The research has a descriptive nature with the hypothetical deductive method and the methodology applied was based on a theoreticalpractical study with an emphasis on conceptual research, documentary and empirical analysis, through consultations with specialized literature, such as books, researches, magazines, laws, opinions issued by the TCM/BA for the years of 2009 to 2020, information collected in the Diário Oficial and in the planning sectors of said municipalities. In addition to these, to understand and describe the budget preparation scenario in the year 2021, and the social participation in these processes, questionnaires were also applied to the components of the Working Groups responsible for the coordination in the preparation of the budgets of each municipality. It is concluded that the result of the study indicates that, despite representing advances in the process, there are still corrections to be made to these two experiences in order to provide a greater level of social participation, aiming to parameterize and improve its conduct. In this way, it was possible to devise and implement a model of Internal Rules of the Participatory Budget to be proposed to the aforementioned municipalities, based on the models adopted in the municipalities of Belo Horizonte-MG, Porto Alegre-RS and Vitória da Conquista-BA, and adapted accordingly to the characteristics and realities of Brumado and Guanambi