O trabalho de assessoria prestado pelo Centro Colaborador em Alimentação e Nutrição do Escolar da Universidade Federal do Ceará para conselheiros de alimentação escolar

Abstract

The study is an analysis of the advisory work of the Collaborating Center for School Food and Nutrition (CECANE) at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) via training with School Food Advisers from Ceará, between 2020 and 2021. To this end, it was intended to explain the minutiae of the advisory role that is provided by the CECANE UFC, to identify the work methodology implemented by the same for the execution of the advisory to the Counselors and also to discuss the importance of the training work done by CECANE with members of the Food Councils Schoolchildren working in the state of Ceará. The field of scientific methodology classifies research as a case study with a qualitative nature, having CECANE and its work with Counselors as the object of study. The researcher's participation in training meetings as a listener raised the status of gathering information with direct observation. For the construction of the categories and textual argumentation, bibliographical and documentary researches were carried out, as well as a questionnaire by rational choice. As an instrument of analysis, data triangulation was chosen. For the contextualization of the theme, a brief historical evolution and the legal milestones that culminated in what the National School Feeding Program (PNAE) is currently present; presentation of the performance of the National Education Development Fund as a support for the PNAE; importance of Social Control of Public Policies and its relevance for the social participation of civilians as state inspectors; exemplification of a social control body with the School Meals Councils and finally; the discussion about the training done by CECANE UFC with the School Feeding Counselors. We conclude that the advisory work is fundamental for the full development of the activities of the Councilors in Ceará, strengthening the Social Control of Public Policies that is exercised in the municipalities by the Councils, regarding the execution of the PNAE in the localities, strengthening the democratic and deliberative spaces . However, we found that the increase in the workforce of the Center would contribute to a greater reach of advisors, since the number of trained Counselors is still low in comparison to the number of collegiate in Ceará.