Diagnóstico participativo do bairro Benfica - um subsídio à elaboração da agenda 21 local de Fortaleza, Ceará

Abstract

This paper investigates how the notion of dual space (rich versus poor) in the urban areas and its implications upon participatory diagnostic can affect the definitiion of the publicpolicy to be considered in the Local Agenda 21. To dothat, participatory workshops were accomplished with the participation of stakeholsers from two different sosioecopnomic classes (medan and poor classes) living in the Benficaneighborhood at Fortaleza-CE. In this research, it qwas mused the Small Agenda 21 to guide the execution of the participatory diagnostic phase, in which were used group dynamics (brainstorm, focus group and referendum) in order to reach the objectives. The results showed that the problem and objectives were remarkably different: the median class group prioritizes the policies towards augmenting their life standards, having as basis the provision of public goodas (public security, leisure and culture, infra-structure, and traffic and signalization) while the poor class group prioritizes policies that attended their needs regarding livelihoods and fundamental human rights (health, jobs and education).