O Conselho Municipal dos Direitos da Criança e do Adolescente do Rio de Janeiro : um campo de interações e conflitos entre governo e sociedade

Abstract

This work presents the results of an inquiry carried through on the performance of the City council of the Child and the Adolescent s Rights of Rio De Janeiro (CMDCA/Rio) in the years 2000 to 2005. Through the analysis of the assemblies register, councils deliberations, interviews with governmental and not-governmental council members and observations of the assemblies it was possible to perceive how is the relation between the civil society represented in the council and the governmental representation, which are the dispute subjects, the conflicts and interactions occurred between the two instances represented in this deliberative agency. The dispute for the scarce resources of the Municipal Fund for Infancy and Adolescence is one of the most recurrent subjects. The lack of a collectively elaborated and assumed politic project turns the discussion about reality diagnosis and public politics little constant. In this scenario the CMDCA Rio turns itself to a more bureaucratic agency than instance of politics formulation. The research disclosed that the council is not enough operative and deliberative to guarantee the rights of children and adolescents.