Interculturality and street-level bureaucracy: a look at the implementation of the Rural Development Program with quilombola families in the State of Goiás
Implementation of public policies; Quilombola Communities; Interculturality; Technical Assistance and Rural Extension; Food and Nutrition Sovereignty and Security; Political Ecology.
This paper analyzes the implementation experience of the Programa de Fomento às Atividades Produtivas Rurais, also called Programa Fomento Rural, (Law 12.512/2011) along with quilombola families in the state of Goiás, Brazil, considering aspects of affection to interculturality. The Programa Fomento Rural is a program aimed at promoting food and nutrition security and productive inclusion through the articulation of the offer (i) of Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (ATER), regulated by the National Policy of ATER (PNATER, Law 12.188/2010), and (ii) the transfer of non-reimbursable resources and financial aid for families living in poverty in the countryside. An ethnographic case study was carried out with the key objective of recording street-level implementation experience and contributing to the study of interculturality and literature on street-level bureaucracy in light of the PNATER. It points out the existence of gaps and challenges, nowadays, for the effectiveness of the methodology participating approach with a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinar, and intercultural, seeking the construction of citizenship according to established in PNATER. From the perspective of interculturality criticism, given this, it is suggested that the street-level bureaucracy responsible for implementing this policy has a long way to go include in its repertoire the concept of ecology of knowledge, especially in the case of assisting quilombola families and other people and traditional communities.