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Public Management and Local Development: The contributions of the Social Observatories municipalities (SOM) from Bahia

Abstract

The exercise of transparency in the public sphere consolidates your connection with society, allowing you to act in social control and monitoring the acts of public management. Ensuring this right, legal norms legislate forcing transparent actions. The transparency instrument, Electronic Tax Transparency Index (ITFE), allows to evaluate the compliance with the actions determined by law, it analyzes the electronic portals calculating its transparency index, based on the required criteria, among them, incentive to social participation government actions. Among the social control tools, there are Social Observatories (S.O) that are non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) with the objective of contributing to the improvement of municipal management and providing the development of the municipality in which it is inserted. The objective of the research is to analyze the contributions made by a Social Observatory based on the qualitative and quantitative results of the performance of the Social Observatory in Brazil and to relate them to local development. To achieve the research objective, a descriptive and explanatory study was conducted, with a document analysis design with a qualitative and quantitative approach. The results demonstrated the low electronic transparency in the municipalities, the non-disclosure of transparency instruments that are fundamental to society and the actions developed by social observatories that contribute to transparency and local development.