Strategic planning and participative planning in public management: the case of the city of Porto Alegre (1989-93)

• Autor(a) principal: Moura, Gilnei Luiz de
• Data de Publicação: 1997
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/7858
• topic: planning; strategic planning; participatory planning; municipal administration.; planificación; la planificación estratégica; planificación participativa; administración municipal.; planejamento; planejamento estratégico; planejamento participativo; administração municipal.

This paper is based upon the premise that the Popular Front administration represented a new model of participatory public administration in Porto Alegre, whose basic principIeswere endorsed by the results of the 1992 elections for that city's mayor. Therefore, that administration's planning process was analyzed both under the participatory and strategic lights. The main conclusions are: the participatory budgeting process initiated in 1989 can be considered as a type of partipatory planning, the situational strategic planning, which begun in 1991, was certainly a kind of strategic planning; the PortoAlegre Mais - Cidade Constituinte program, which started in 1992, can be considered a combination of both types. In short, the Popular Front administration tried to consoli-date a simultaneously participatory and strategic planning process, in order to guarantee that the citizens of Porto Alegre could monitor and collaborate with their govemment, profiting both from their own knowledge and that of the govemment's technical staff.