AÇÕES DE CONTROLE SOCIAL: UMA ANÁLISE DA EFETIVIDADE DOS CONSELHOS MUNICIPAIS À LUZ DAS CONSTATAÇÕES DE FISCALIZAÇÃO DA CONTROLADORIA GERAL DA UNIÃO (CGU), RESULTANTES POR MEIO DO PROGRAMA DE SORTEIOS DOS MUNICÍPIOS NA REGIÃO NORDESTE DO BRASIL (...)

Abstract

The present paper identify failures and/or obstacles, pointed at the audits by Federal Controller-General´s Office (CGU), through audit cities program, chosen at public random selection, concerning the actions of the City Councils, that had hindered them to act effectively on social control. It had in its methodological boarding the content syntheses audit’s analysis, by means of the eighteen selection cities from 2003 until 2005, with the presentation of nine categories of analysis that identify the main imperfections and/or obstacles pointed on the respective fiscalizations carried through the federal agency, namely: 1. unfamiliarity, on the part of its members, of the regimental attributions of these and the Council which if tie; 2. mediation in the activities of the Council, as well as in its composition on the part of the Municipal Administration; 3. absence of popular participation/interaction; 4. absence of qualification courses Council members; 5. not segregation of functions; 6. absence of Council participation carried through licitations and program execution; 7. hidden information on the part of the Municipal Management; 8. omission of the duty of Council implantation; 9. absence of program execution accompaniment and resource applications. Concluding, it has the necessity to promote ample qualification process, beyond reconfiguring the choice and the definition of the representative respective Council members without the Municipal Managers mediation with the objective to fortify the performance and autonomy of this important Social Control instance.