Propostas para aprimoramento dos modelos de avaliação de impacto dos programas sociais financiados por organismos internacionais a partir da análise do Programa de Urbanização de Assentamentos Populares – PROAP III

Abstract

The housing issue has been impacting the life of Rio de Janeiro’s population for decades, either due to the absence of public authorities and unsuccessful implemented policies, or even because the abusive charging by real estate companies. The data used in this research show that during the first two decades of the 21st century, the Carioca context was marked by population growth, housing deficit, densification of slums, and reduced financial resources for the housing sector. Even though housing quotas were relatively small when compared to other items (private pension and social charges, for example) and several public housing policies were implemented during the period, remained the doubt why, after so many years and resources invested, housing issues are still so critical in Rio de Janeiro. In theory, instruments for evaluating public policies and programs can help to understand if resources are efficiently applied, if public policies are being coherently designed and implemented, or even if the agencies or other institutions involved are working in an efficient way. The intention was to confirm the hypothesis that Brazilian public agencies still do not have a consolidated culture of public policy evaluation, so they use the funding agencies models, which can be strategic for funding agencies but not necessarily to the executing agencies. During the development of the research, based on critical texts on the subject, it was inferred that funding agencies are not neutral parties in scenarios like this (developing countries, social programs, and loans) and that the executing agency disregarding this issue can be problematic. This is because the results obtained may not have the depth that the executing agency of the public housing policy needs. Regarding the methodological procedures, it was carried out a bibliographic and documentary review on the subjects specially the documents of PROAP III, issued by the executing agency and by the funding body. In this way, it was indicated similarities, gaps, and opportunities for the improvement of programs and evaluations implementation. As a result of the research, a Synthesis Framework was generated, which made it possible to infer that the quality of the results has gone beyond the Applied Assessment Model, recognizing methodological and operational issues in the PROAP III design.