Participation as a sustainability element for social projects: a communication agency from the favela to the favela

• Autor(a) principal: Simões, Gabriel Lima
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Ciências do Estado (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revice/article/view/e5054
• topic: Participação; Comunidade; Projeto; Território; Participation; Community; Project; Territory; Participación; Comunidad; Proyecto; Territorio

This study reflects on the points of view of citizens involved with a participatory project, developed in a complex of favelas of the city of Rio de Janeiro. The project that gave rise to the Community Communication Agency was fruit of the demand of the local population, through its Community Council, for a plan that socialized information between the Communities that make up the Complex of Manguinhos. Through a documentary research and interviews with the residents of the community, we sought to understand the participatory character of this project. According to the interviewees, many forces take society away from an effective participation in the projects and processes of public policy-making. For them, the difficulties to establish dialogues in the daily life cause people not to be prepared to listen to opinions, or even to believe that someone will hear them. The results show that the fact that the Agency’s project incorporates the inhabitants of the territory in the discussions of all its stages has provided the approximation between the developed actions and the real demands of the community.