Object:Understanding the legitimacy of Territorial Governance actions and their role in Sustainable Development of a geographical region, using research for a doctoral thesis at the Graduate Program in Territorial Planning and Social Development of the Catholic University of Salvador, within the research line of Territoriality, Social Development and Environment.
The research seeks to analyze the perception of the legitimacy of governance actions; to identify the role of local leaders; to validate governance as a democratic management method for institutions; to verify if there is encouragement of citizen participation; to verify the perception of “belonging” among citizens of a region and to characterize territorial governance as an essential component of modern public management.
Intervention site: Municipality of President Tancredo Neves, in the south of Bahia state, in the Northeast of Brazil.
Institution to be researched: The South Bahia Sustainable Development Institute (IDES).
Theoretical basis: Colletis (1999); UN (2000); The World Bank (2000); Seyle e King (2014); Pascual Esteve (2015)
The IDES is an organization created in partnership with companies, civil society, representatives from governments and subnational spheres, which devised a strategy to encourage organizational innovation and to apply technological innovations to improving production of cassava flour, heart of palm and fish. It combines social techniques to engage communities by innovating work and production processes. The intervention model follows the ideas of Pedagogy of Alternation (originated in France in 1937) and focuses on young students of rural schools who blend a week of learning at the project’s facilities and two weeks of supervised application of the knowledge gained at family farms.
Phenomenological research: Husserl (1859 – 1938)
The phenomenological method seeks the direct description of the experience as it is. The reality is built socially and extended as what is understood, interpreted and communicated. Thus the reality is not unique: there are as many realities as there are interpretations and communications. The stakeholder/subject is recognizably important in the knowledge building process. The project uses qualitative research, which seeks to study the essential structures of the phenomena that occur in our conscience. It seeks to obtain a critical analysis of the narrative, vying to understand history as it is presented, as well as the relational approach, with the recording of information from the dialectical encounter between the researcher and the survey’s participants, who are designated as co-participants. Such relational approach will be developed through personal contacts between the researcher and the participants, through a non-probabilistic and intentional sample, with a questionnaire/interview script that considers the relevant of subgroups identified in the review of the cognition of interviewees about their governance actions in the municipality of Presidente Tancredo Neves, since the year 2000 to the current year, to consolidate the scenario proposed. aa
