Políticas públicas de juventude: uma análise do Projovem Urbano Ceará

Abstract

The Projovem Urbano is a public policy created by the Federal Government whose objective is to increase the education of young people 18 to 29, with a view to human development and the exercise of citizenship, through the completion of Elementary Education, Professional Qualification and of Citizen Participation. The present work seeks to analyze the operation of Projovem Urbano Ceará policy. For the contextualization of the theme, a discussion was carried out on the concept of public policies, on the concept of youth, as well as a description of the conjuncture of creation and formulation of public policies for youth in Brazil and Projovem Urbano, one of the modalities of the Integrated Projovem. In order to achieve the general objective of this research, the following specific objectives were defined: to discuss the context of creating public policies for youth, with a brief analysis of the period 2005-2015; discuss the Projovem and Projovem Urbano and investigate the perception of the coordinators of Projovem Urbano Ceará on the operation of the Program. As an instrument of analysis, triangulation was used, with the support of semi-structured interviews and secondary sources. The research was developed with the general and pedagogical coordinators of Projovem Urbano Ceará between May and June 2019, at the headquarters of the Labor Development Institute (IDT), which executes it in the State. As a result, the research showed that the State Government has sought to continue Projovem Urbano in the State, even in the face of financial challenges (reduction of federal resources) and human (conciliation between work and studies), which hinder the full development of activities from the program.