Descentralização e participação comunitária no desenvolvimento local: caso Município de Boane (2018-2020)

Abstract

From a theoretical and normative point of view, decentralization ensures the consolidation of democracy, the promotion of local development and community participation in the decision-making process. This assumption has guided the reforms of political and administrative decentralization in Mozambique. However, works on local governance in Mozambique suggest that the process of implementing political decentralization reforms has not yet had a significant impact on the constitution and development of local political arenas capable of promoting community involvement and participation in the formulation of local public policies. It is based on these premises that the work is subordinated to the theme of decentralization and community participation in local development. Where it seeks to analyze community participation in the process of elaboration and implementation of local development policies, in the Municipality of Boane. The study started from the assumption that although the theoretical and normative framework defends that decentralization guarantees community participation in the decision-making process, in the Municipality of Boane, the community has little participation in the elaboration and implementation of policies. The methodology adopted was qualitative in nature, based on interviews, bibliographic and documental research. The study found that the existing mechanisms of community participation, popular meetings and participatory budgeting, still do not allow the involvement of communities in the entire decision-making process, much less their influence on the pattern of local policies and on the course of political and social events at the end of the day (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)