Programa “viva leite”: relações em rede e institucionalização nos municípios do bloco 27

Abstract

The nutritional food security programs (SAN) can be seen as compensatory policies which aim to assisting a social problem until it is solved within the company itself or can be understood as a program that meets a right of society. The "Viva Leite" program has existed for 21 years is a public policy of food security promoted by the State Government of São Paulo that provides pasteurized milk to children from poor families aged between six months and seven years. We study in particular the Block 27 area of the program formed by the municipalities of: Angatuba, Buri, Campina do Monte Alegre and Paranapanema. Our hypothesis that the program "Viva Milk" in block 27 can be understood as a fragmented network between the municipalities that make up the block whose institutionalization process is associated with the operation of this network, the mechanisms and formal and informal practices of operation linked to relational cohesion actors among its members. The objective is to study the functioning of the "Viva Leite" program in the block 27 municipalities checking if there is a dense or fragmented network between the municipalities, their cohesion from a relational point of view and to what extent the program is institutionalized. To do this analysis we set out how the network is structured on the block and in each municipality analyzed the structural and relational point of view of network theory. The theoretical line of work is neoinstitutionalism with cut in network analysis. In the design of networks’ structure of the program didnt find that there connections in program management between the municipalities, each municipality makes its management. We understand how the network is fragmented. . It made the crossing of the activities of the actors in each municipality seeking to verify the use of the program's official rules and the recreation standards and procedures whereas the extent that the rules are used and recreated bringing uniformity to the practices the program was becoming institutionalized. We find greater cohesion relations in so far as it headed toward the city managers cores. Thus, it was found major relational cohesions in relations involving beneficiaries and local managers offices. From this perspective we conclude that the program is not yet settled more presents intermediate characteristics of typifications within a habitualization step.