Impacto das agências de desenvolvimento económico local na geração de emprego: uma reflexão apartir do Programa Sustenta no Distrito de Boane (2019 – 2020)

Abstract

The present work seeks to carry out an analysis of the socio-economic benefits generated by the intervention of the Local Economic Development Agencies in Generation in the District of Boane between the period 2020 - 2021. The methodology applied is the integration of qualitative and quantitative and we used a sample of 50 interviewees. From the data obtained, we came to the conclusion that, for the most part, the SUSTENTA Project, although it leverages socio-economic growth and boosts entrepreneurship, access to finance to increase income generation is conditioned by political factors orchestrated by those responsible for fund management. of funding. We arrived at this conclusion through semi-structured interviews and, therefore, we recommend: (i) Strengthening the consultation of the beneficiaries of funding in order to assess the degree of aid to farmers impartially in Vila de Boane; (ii) Ensuring that, in the areas of its intervention, the beneficiaries have direct interactions with those responsible at the top level, since information about the processes of their financing arrives distorted; (iii) Encourage beneficiaries to denounce situations of exclusion from accessing funding on an anonymous basis to allow greater control of the actions of those responsible for implementing the Project; (iv) Install an independent committee in the name of had oc responsible for the management of funds intended to finance farmers