CEERT

PORTUGUÊS - FRANÇAIS

Public Policies program: the program was devised with two basic presuppositions, namely:

1. the relevance of monitoring for the civil society, for social movements, since they allow the militancy to appraise the connection and coherence between discourse and practice of the public administrators, offering subsidies for the social mobilization and political pressure;

2. the relevance of monitoring as subsidy for the governmental action itself, since it offers a global perspective of the programs and actions, allowing corrections and adjustments.
The two-fold advantages offered with the monitoring of public policies defined the action of CEERT in these circumstances, so that, independent of the parties and/or people that lead the public agencies, we are interested in strengthening the action of social movements as well as collaborating, whenever possible, with the work of public administrators effectively committed with the fulfillment of the policies.

The exercise of monitoring policies for the promotion of racial equality, in the three governmental departments, faces two serious obstacles. The first has to do with the absence of information on color/race of the beneficiaries of the public policies, or, what is worse, the incorrect inclusion of this information. The second obstacle refers to the inexistence of a legislative and administrative culture that insures budget prevision for programs and actions that include race and/or diversity

The action of CEERT can be measured by two products, among others, which are currently being carried out: the production of a book on the subject, for which we already have financial support and which will be published in May 2010 and; an emblematic judicial measure. In fact, with the objective of preparing the request to set up civil inquests or even public civil actions for the eventual lack of fulfillment of the LDB altered by the law 10,639/03, we encouraged the Federal Public Ministry to approach 18 municipalities of the State of São Paulo.
The assessment of the material sent by the administrators was ended due to the inconsistency of the actions of the municipalities with regard to the implementation of the above-mentioned federal law, regulated by resolution no. 1, of June 17, 2004 CNE/CP/DF, of the National Council of Education. Keeping in mind the need to apply standardized issues, sustained in specific norms and capable of reducing the margin of evasive replies, we gave up the mentioned Resolution no. 1, whose clauses clearly establish the obligations of the governments – based on what we suggested to the Federal Public Ministry, a new more thorough and detailed issue.

The last objective of this initiative has to do with a specific manner of social control of the public administration – the so-called jurisdictional control, highlighting the applicable judicial actions, including that of administrative dishonesty, fiscal responsibility, court injunction, popular action, civil public action, petition right, impeachment etc.

It is therefore about a preparatory enterprise that aims to reunite elements, proofs and sufficient indications for the eventual instauration of civil inquiries or even the proposition of legal actions to try to compel the executive department to fulfill its obligations with regard to the LDB altered by the law 10,639.

The future of this program is undergoing a formulation of means and indicators able to subsidize monitoring exercises, above all by the executive department; production and promotion of knowledge and models of indicators; projects of implementation of the "color" issue in public and private records; measures for sustainable development, employment and equality of gender and race, implemented by public agencies.