Avaliação da capacidade de gestão do Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar da IFMNG: Campus Montes Claros

Abstract

The Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar (PNAE - a Brazilian governmental program), since its creation, has undergone significant advances in technical and operational aspects linked to the improvement of its management capacity. Among the main changes, it is worth highlighting the process of financial and administrative decentralization, which has enabled greater interference by various public organizations in the implementation of the Program. Since 2009, Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia (IFEs) have been part of the PNAE, supported by Política Nacional de Assistência Estudantil (PNAES), whose main purposes are: (a) to increase the levels of food and nutrition of students to guarantee the elevation of the level of school performance and guarantee levels of learning; and (b) guaranteeing the process of inclusion of family farmers in public purchases, aiming to encourage access to income for the local population and the provision of healthy food for students. Considering the importance of this policy to reduce the levels of social inequalities that have marked Brazilian history, the main objective of this research was to assess the management capacity of the PNAE at Instituto Federal do Norte de Minas Gerais (IFNMG - Campus Montes Claros). Methodologically, this is a research on the evaluation of public policies based on the theory of Political Administration, which considers that administrative phenomena are integrated by two inseparable dimensions: the management dimension and the administration dimension. The research results show the limits and challenges to be overcome by the PNAE Management by the IFNMG, providing contributions of the inseparability between the theoretical and practical aspects that integrate administrative phenomena. The study also made it possible to point out elements of studies of management and administration strategies aimed at improving the levels of effectiveness, efficiency and effectiveness of the program.