O comprometimento político com o desenvolvimento regional : o caso do Corede da fronteira oeste.

Abstract

To analyze the performance of the Regional Counsel of Development of the West Frontier of RS, their members’ involvement with COREDE’s functioning, as well as the politic engagement with the regional development is the proposal of this research that has as the main focus of study the analysis of the actions and the politicadministrative engagement of the members of the Regional Counsel of Development of the West Frontier of RS and their action for the regional development. The study encloses a period from 2000 to 2008, making use of official data which were researched at the Economy and Statistics Foundation, as well as some data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. It was searched some secondary data to add to this research through the data collection composed by questionnaires applied to the Mayors of the Counties that compose the West Frontier COREDE and to the members that integrate this organ. Three items were evaluated: the performance of the Counsel in relation to the process of popular participation that indicates the priorities to the region and the relation that must exist among the proposals with the IDESE indexes (Index of Socioeconomic Development), considering the thirteen Counties that take part in this COREDE nowadays: São Gabriel, Alegrete, Uruguaiana, Santana do Livramento, Rosário do Sul, Barra do Quaraí, Itacurubi, Itaqui, Maçambara, Manoel Viana, Quaraí, Santa Margarida do Sul and São Borja. It is understood that the experience lived in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, with the implantation of the Regional Counsels of Development, since 1994, is an action that must be studied once it appears as a way to search for the equilibrium of the regional differences, stimulating the search of solutions for their understanding and, no doubt, put in equation the best way of the search for the regional development, valorizing the local potentialities, their actors and the practice of taking conjunct decisions of the region living forces, managing their anxieties and necessities to the use of public policies identified with the region.