Descentralização vigiada: accountability e avaliação ... - IE – UFRJ

7AbstractThis study focuses on accountability and evaluation of public policy servicesmade by non governmental agents, like non profit agents and profitable privatecompanies. Those services are mechanisms presented in the process of administrativedecentralization and results-oriented services that came with State reform in Brazil inthe last decades. This process went through a recent tentative of institutionalization, bylaws that created the following organizations: “organizações sociais” (“socialorganizations”, in free translation), abbreviated as “OSs”; “organizações da sociedadecivil de interesse público” (“public interest civil society organizations”, in freetranslation), abbreviated as “Oscips”; and “parcerias público-privadas”, called publicprivatepartnerships in English term, or “PPPs”.The study‟s main subject is that accountability has to walk together with thisnew decentralized and results-oriented form of State function. This study presentsaccountability as a complementary process to public policy evaluation and suggests theterm “accountability de avaliação” (or “evaluation accountability”, in free translation) toexpress this complementarity, part of a democratic governance process.This study analyzed: academic research about accountability, public policyevaluation, State reform, governance and institutional design; the laws that created andregulated OSs, Oscips and PPPs in Brazil, comparing those laws with local laws fromRio de Janeiro about OSs, Oscips and PPPs; and federal judicial decisions about OSs,Oscips and PPPs given by a Brazilian superior court of account, called Tribunal deContas da União.Also, this study developed 16 institutional factors seen as essential toaccountability and evaluation of decentralized and results-oriented mechanismspresented in public policy services made by non governmental agents. So, these factorswere applied to those laws and judicial decisions, to check their presence or absence.Keywords: accountability; public policy evaluation; State reform; administrativedecentralization; results-oriented services; NGOs; OSs; Oscips; PPPs