Methodologies for participatory Local Agenda 21.

• Grant number: 20/06845-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2020
• End date: September 30, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Law - Special Rights
• Principal Investigator: Celso Maran de Oliveira
• Grantee: Heitor Menezes Gomes
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Agenda 21 is an urban and rural planning instrument product of the UnitedNations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED, also known as Rio92) performed in 1992. Its basic elements are planning for sustainable developmentand citizen participation. Since popular participation when it comes to planningprocesses is essential to sustainable development, there is a need formethodologies that manage to correctly insert civil society and other social actors inLocal Agenda 21 (LA21) development, avoiding disorder or negligence regardingthose actors take place in its application, respecting their right to defend sharedinterests as well as their right to participate. Assuming the importance of suchparticipatory methodologies, the present project intends on studying the variety ofproposed models for referred methodologies through literature review anddocumental research, seeking for the appliable evaluations and comparisons. The research intends to generate a participatory methodologies database as a result, in away that it can serve for consulting purposes by many organizations.