Avaliação do Programa um Milhão de Cisternas Rurais (P1MC): eficácia, eficiência e efetividade nos territórios do Rio Grande do Norte (2003/2015)

Abstract

Water scarcity is a recurrent problem in the Brazilian semi-arid, more precisely in the Northeast. The first initiatives, of attention to drought, emerged through public social actions of "salvation", mitigation of drought consequences. It lasted, until the 1980s, this perspective of "drought relief". From the 1980s, with the democratization of the Country and the state reform, new alternatives for the development of the Brazilian semi-arid began to emerge from civil society organizations, which began to implement projects based on the ideal that it is possible and necessary to coexist with the semi-arid. This movement represented a paradigmatic inflection - instead of "drought relief" emerges "coexistence with the semi-arid". This study lies, therefore, in this new moment of public actions aimed at semi-arid, assuming the intent to systematize results of the One Million Rural Cisterns Program (P1MC) in front of efficacy, efficiency and effectiveness indicators. The Program, designed and implemented by civil society organization since 1999, has as components mobilization, social control, training, communication, institutional strengthening and building of plates cisterns of 16,000 liters for rain water harvesting through gutters on the roof of the rural home. The research was descriptive, the universe comprised the 10 territories of Rio Grande do Norte, the approach was quantitative and qualitative. For the treatment of quantitative data, data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used through Siadv software and, in the qualitative stage, content analysis with assistance of NVivo 11 software, having as source of collection structured interviews with the actors of P1MC. The quantitative stage led to the determination of efficiency and efficacy indicators, while the qualitative stage enabled the interpretation of effectiveness, occurred based on the five principles expressed in P1MC by Brazilian Semi-Arid Articulation (ASA), a network of non-governmental organizations responsible for the design from the Program. Results showed that, in terms of efficacy, represented by pre-established physical goals, the Program was less than expectated. In terms of efficiency, the territories of Sertão do Apodi, Açu-Mossoró and Mato Grande were highlighted, with relative performances above the state average in front of rural population of the territory versus number of built cisterns relation. Regarding the effectiveness, the Program assumptions are widely met in content and form. Representatives of interested segments - performers, community mobilizers and beneficiaries - report, in this research, that P1MC is not restricted to priority of water access, but also the formulation of a new standard of coexistence with the semi-arid, through the change in conscience of beneficiaries and the mobilization of served families and communities.