Sustentabilidade na gestão pública municipal: uma análise do projeto juventude na escuta

Abstract

Getting low-income young people from public schools into the job market is a challenge for public policies. To overcome this challenge, Fortaleza City Hall created the Digital Youth Program, aimed at training young programmers. One of the pilot projects of this program is Youth in Listening, which is being carried out within the framework of the Controller and General Ombudsman of the Municipality of Fortaleza (CGM). With this project as a case study, the aim of this research is to investigate the sustainability dimensions of municipal public policies, as advocated by the Triple Bottom Line Theory and its sustainability dimensions - economic, social, and environmental. Qualitative data collection methods were used, namely a focus group with the trainees and in-depth interviews with the four managers of the CGM's Youth Listening Project. The information was analyzed using content analysis and processed with the support of Atlas.ti software. The results of the research revealed that, in economic terms, the benefits of the project refer to the increase in the trainees' family income. In social terms, in addition to the benefits of the social interaction of young people, there were gains in innovation and an improvement in the quality of the services provided to citizens by the CGM. The environmental gains are evidenced by some practices already adopted by CGM and Fortaleza City Hall, which are learned and reproduced in the environment.