Orçamento Participativo: uma proposta de modelo de elaboração para a Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná - câmpus Londrina

Abstract

The institutionalization of instruments that allow social participation in public decisions, among them the Participatory Budget, has contributed to improve the efficiency of public spending, promoting an alignment of the actions of public managers and the demands expressed by the population. In this sense, this work had as main objective to conceive a model of elaboration of Participative Budget applicable to the reality of the Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR) Câmpus Londrina. Methodologically, the research was conducted as follows: initially, a review of the literature on Participatory Budgeting and its different applications in Public Institutions of Higher Education was carried out, in order to elaborate a generic theoretical model for Participatory Budgeting to these institutions. As for the practical part of the research, the way has been conducted the annual budget elaboration process at UTFPR Londrina was raised through interviews with the previous management team, responsible for preparing the current budget. Next, was investigated the predisposition of the university community in general in participating in the implantation and maintenance of the Participatory Budgeting instrument in the institution and their perceptions regarding the systematics currently employed. Interviews were also conducted with the members of the current Management Team of the institution, in order to verify their predisposition to decentralize decision making power and their commitment to a possible implantation of the instrument in the university. The research showed that the current process of the budget elaboration in the UTFPR Londrina is characterized by the centralization of decision power and that the internal decentralization of resources occurs in a subjective way. However, members of the current Management Team stated that they are willing to analyze the possibility of institutionalizing the OP in the university. In addition, the vast majority of the university community showed a willingness to participate in the institution's budget elaboration, also claiming that current actions are not fully aligned with their needs and that they do not feel represented in the current model. With this, a model for the elaboration of a Participatory Budget for the UTFPR Câmpus Londrina was developed, which proposes the sensitization and training of the university community for the potentialities of the instrument and the promotion of plenary sessions at the level of Resource Management Units, for discussion and budgets of these units by their internal members. With this, a model for the elaboration of a Participatory Budget for the UTFPR Câmpus Londrina was developed, which proposes the sensitization and training of the university community for the potentialities of the instrument and the promotion of plenary sessions at the level of Resource Management Units, for discussion and budgets of these units by their internal members.