A reforma do sector público no processo de formulação e monitoria de políticas públicas e a sua contribuição para a eficácia do PARPA: O caso da Direcção Provincial do plano e Finanças de Manica (2001-2002)

Abstract

The apparent ineffectiveness in reducing absolute poverty in Mozambique, which the first evaluation report on the implementation of the Action Plan for the Reduction of Absolute Poverty (PARPA) - launched in April 2003 - shows, leads to the questioning of the elaboration process itself of recurrent public policies on the reduction of absolute poverty and to postulate other types of approaches that allow us to understand this process as something that requires an efficient Public Administration, where not only the policy formulation and monitoring system assumes an extremely important role, as well as the interaction and articulation of the different actors appear to be key factors. It is at this level that the current Research Project is located, in which we sought to analyze the improvement of the policy process and its contribution to the effectiveness of PARPA. The analysis followed the period from 2001 to 2002 and was based on data collected in documents and interviews carried out at the central level and in the Province of Manica. Taking the systemic analysis as our theoretical perspective, the results of the fieldwork suggest that the quality of human resources for the operationalization of governmental guidelines is extremely low, which goes against the first theoretical assumption of the work, which states that the component under analysis will contribute to the effectiveness of PARPA as long as other components of the reform are operationalized properly, inter alia, equipping the Public Administration with qualified human resources in public policies. On the other hand, there is a lack of articulation and coordination between the different parties involved in the process of reducing absolute poverty, partially corroborating the second assumption, since the question of the involvement of all who are part of the process is raised and not just the sectors; this assumption indicates that the effectiveness of PARPA will depend on the articulation and coordination of sectors in the process of formulating and monitoring policies. In addition, the results of the fieldwork suggest some improvements, which may also be avenues for reflection for future investigations. The work is structured as follows: an introduction where the theme is contextualized, exposed the problematic, delimited the object and objectives of the study, exposed the justification of the study, described the methodology, made the theoretical framework, the exposition of the main concepts used in the work and the research steps are described. Following are four chapters, where the literature review was made, the assumptions are exposed