Os princípios da governança e as políticas públicas para o desenvolvimento sustentável - experiência do Programa Selo Município Verde no Estado do Ceará

Abstract

The Sustainable Development Plan of the State of Ceará, developed and implemented in 1995, introduced the concept of Sustainable Development (SD) on the likes of Ceará public policy and proposed that the basis of his training was participatory and democratic way, though there is, thus awakening to the practice of governance. It is known that the analysis of governance rests on the basis of the concept of SD therefore should be focused on the development of policy guidelines and standards aimed at all social actors in an attempt to mitigate and/or end social conflicts beyond to make conspicuous the active participation of people in decision making of the government. The World Bank considers governance as the government's ability to formulate and implement sound policies and effectively, then, propose s six principles for assessing Good Governance: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism, Government Effectiveness , Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law and Control of Corruption. In 2003, the Selo Municipio Verde Program of the State of Ceará (SMVP) was formulated and implemented in order to assign a public environmental certification that operationalizes the SD at the local level. Thus, the SMVP may hold instruments that enable a guarantee of Good Governance for sustainable development, promote the involvement of all stakeholders to mitigate conflicts of interest and enable the active participation of people in decision making of the government. In this context, the current research aims to analyze the level of implementation of the principles of Good Governance in public policies for sustainable development in Ceará with a view from the SMV P. Therefore, the research applied the Delphi method, and for better decision making to be pointed out, used the method of Multiple Criteria Decision Support –Analysis of Hierarchy Process to calculate the Evaluation Index of Good Governance for SMVP. The results showed that after 11 years of implementation, the SMVP can be considered a tool that enables Good Governance for sustainable development in Ceará territory because, according to respondents, fifty four indicators targeted to the six principles are being put into practice. However, the inter-relate them, the survey found that SMVP has a regular Good Governance level. Of all the principles discussed, which contributes least to this index was the Control of Corruption and contributed most positively was the principle Rule of Law, reflecting that there is a strong legal apparatus to exercise Good Governancein the state of Ceará but should promote ways of controlling and combating corruption in an attempt to make the government more democratic and transparent. It should be noted that no principle has been rated with a level of Good Governance. Hence for SMVP, all indicators are subject to investment to achieve Good Governance for sustainable development preached by the World Bank. Finally, it is suggested to continue being developed and implemented public policies that affect effective popular participation in all levels of decision making, seeking thus the sustainability of development with more equitable world and to promote world peace.