Desafios da governança no Grande ABC Paulista: coesão e integração regional das políticas de inclusão social

Abstract

The innovation in movement of regional coordination, cooperation and agreement which began in the 1990s in the Greater ABC composed of seven cities: Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo, São Caetano do Sul, Mauá, Ribeirão Pires e Rio Grande da Serra the region has been recognized around the country and started the rising of the process of the metropolitan governance in the region. In 2000 the public and civil society prepared a Regional Strategic Plan (RSP) with a prospect for ten years with seven Thematic Topics (TT). However, that study we will study one of them, the Social Inclusion TT (SITT). This research objective to describe the metropolitan governance in SITT: to understand the relationships among the seven cities and the São Paulo State and the other; to identify the implementation of the programs, projects and policies of social inclusion between 2000 2009; and to investigate the relationship and the consequence of the process of coordination between regional agents this period. We interviewed nineteen key-informants and documentary sources from the cities departments, civil society and Professors to help us to achieve these objectives. We have observed that the movement of metropolitan governance was active between 2000 2002, because of leaders like Celso Daniel and Mário Covas and the regional agents. Moreover, after the death of both in 2001 and 2002, respectively, not much has been achieved in accordance with the regional development; because of competition among cities; political-party conflicts; and lack of administrative synchronization, which has prevented the establishment common interest projects in Social Inclusion TT in the 2000s. We could see that changing the Greater ABC Intercity Consortium to Public Consortium, brought a new impetus to regional strengthening and metropolitan governance in the Greater ABC