Diversity and social participation in the management of the CEU Squares of Feira de Santana (BA)

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the shared and collaborative management that occurs within the three CEU squares located in the city of Feira de Santana, in Bahia, from two conceptual keys - diversity and social participation. The program Praça CEU - Centro de Artes e Esportes Unificados - is a federal government initiative, executed in partnership with municipal governments, which houses actions aimed at promoting culture, sports, leisure, social assistance and labor qualification and improvement. The program was conceived to be managed, at the governmental level, in an intersectorial way and, at the local level, in a shared way with civil society, based on a tripartite management group composed of residents, entities and local government, with deliberative power. In this way, we present an analysis of the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed management model and, above all, we verify to what extent the discourses of social participation and cultural diversity are or are not materialized in the researched squares.