Gestão de riscos e desastres: análise da estrutura dos órgãos de proteção e defesa civil do Ceará

Abstract

It’s urgent the analyze of the Ceará protection and civil defense agencies structure aiming at the efficient management of risk situations, as well as the most recurrent disasters in the state. The purpose of this study is to identify the structural strengths and weaknesses of Ceará protection and civil defense agencies; assess the level of implementation of the National Protection and Civil Defense Policy (PNPDEC) by the State and Municipalities of Ceará; and to investigate the ideal structure of the Ceará protection and civil defense agencies for the efficient disaster risk management through the implementation of the actions foreseen in PNPDEC. The methodology used followed an exploratory line of theories and laws regarding the structure of organizations and the disaster risk management, focusing on the Ceará State; and descriptive, with the use of qualitative procedures, with a field study by interview of a coordinator and the technical advisor of the State Civil Defense Coordination (CEDEC), and quantitative, with a questionnaire survey applied to the managers of municipal protection and civil defense agencies of Ceará. The data were tabulated through descriptive statistics and the deductive method was used when examining the structure of the civil protection and defense organs of Ceará in light for the referenced theories and laws. As a result, positive points and structural weaknesses of the civil protection and defense organs of Ceará were highlighted; evaluated that there is a good level of PNPDEC implementation by the Ceará State, although there are limiting issues, and a reasonable level of implementation by the Municipalities of Ceará, whose focus, in practice, is the response to disasters. It’s concluded that there is a need for certain structural adjustments of CEDEC, as well as the restructuring of the municipal protection and civil defense agencies oriented to human resources and prioritization of preventive, mitigation and disaster preparedness actions.