Proposta de avaliação do Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar para municípios no estado do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The National School Meal Program (PNAE) stands out among public health nutrition policies in Brazil for its coverage, intersectoral characteristics and design consonant with the area of public health nutrition. However, its theoretical framework of evaluation is poorly consolidated, especially in relation to the local level. The aim of this study was to develop an evaluation proposal for PNAE directed to cities in the state of Rio de Janeiro (RJ) in which the food service is managed directly by the municipality. The work was developed through the following steps: bibliographic review of evaluation studies and indicators of the PNAE; development of graphic expressions that depict the dynamics of execution of the Program and of a preliminary evaluation proposal; review of the list of the evaluation indicators and the graphic expressions after consultation with stakeholders linked to its implementation and experts on the subject; development of instruments for data collection; application of this list of indicators in a city of RJ; review of the list of indicators in light of the experience of its application; and elaboration of the final proposal for evaluation. It is composed by 88 indicators, divided into six dimensions of evaluation: management, promotion of healthy eating, local development, stakeholders' qualification, social control and participation and opinion of stakeholders. In the list of indicators, 19 are qualitative and intend to support the exam of improvements needed in the program. The final expression of the evaluation foresees the use of radar chart, in which each axis represents one of the evaluation dimensions. Other products of the work are the questionnaires for data collection with different stakeholders and conceptual maps of the dynamics of the program with the identification of the proposed indicators