Trajetórias de avaliação de políticas e programas sociais da sagi - secretaria de avaliação e gestão da informação do governo federal

Abstract

It evaluates the trajectories of the evaluation policy of the Secretariat of Evaluation and Information Management (SAGI) of the Federal Government. Its general objective is to analyze the evaluation trajectory of SAGI, considering the political, epistemological and methodological dimensions of evaluation of this institution. To this end, we sought to achieve as specific objectives: I) to reconstruct the evaluation trajectory of SAGI from the different government agendas and II) to understand sagi's evaluation policy based on its products. Methodologically, it aligns with the perspective of In-Depth Evaluation (PA), proposed by Rodrigues (2008; 2011 and 2016), with attention to three axes of his proposal: content analysis, context analysis of policy formulation and institutional trajectory, highlighting the intrinsic relationship between these dimensions, but focusing especially on contributing to discussions on the trajectory axis, inspired by Gussi (2014; 2017) and Gussi and Oliveira (2016). Thus, it has an eminently qualitative nature, using documentary analysis on the regulations that govern SAGI and its publications, highlighting the summaries of the evaluations carried out by the agency on social development policies and programs between 2004 and 2016, published in the Series of Notebooks of Studies. As results, the prominent role of SAGI for the improvement of these policies is evidenced by valuing the technical and scientific knowledge of evaluation as a management tool and, above all, its contributions to fostering a culture of evaluation and strengthening a culture of public policy evaluation in the country. However, despite the effort made to structure an institutionalized evaluative thinking within the Federal Government, such advances have suffered significant inflections since the 2016 coup, to resignify its function. Finally, the final considerations place the historical legacy of SAGI for policies for social development and contributions to the development of an evaluative and alert reason for the urgency of reconfiguring the directions of the secretariat's current trajectory in order to strengthen a new agenda in the present and for the near future.