Apoio à decisão em Orçamento Participativo estadual

Abstract

The participatory budget (PB) is a public policy that, through the direct participation of citizens in the decision-making process as part of the public budget will be spent, brings the government's offerings closer to the real demands of the population. In summary, a typical PB procedure occurs annually, deciding which municipal actions will be carried out next year, from available resources. However, there is an inherent complexity associated with the difficulty for citizens to express the real needs of their municipality. This fact makes the PB procedure susceptible to manipulation and, consequently, citizen dissatisfaction. In the case of state PBs, this scenario is not different, but the scale of complexity can be multiplied by the number of municipalities considered. In this way, this work proposed a model to aggregate the citizens’ preferences, as well as assist in the selection of a viable subset of actions. This model was based on a voting procedure, Approval voting, and it used a multicriteria decision analysis method (MCDA) combined with mathematical programming for the final recommendation. A case study in the Paraiba state was considered for the development of the model. Since the model provides a clear decision-making framework, it assists in increasing confidence in the PB, and it can generate greater participation and engagement of the population in subsequent years.