Tecnologia social e desenvolvimento local : um diálogo com o programa Um Milhão de Cisternas

Abstract

The research brings a social dialogue between the concepts technology and local development from the process which involved the deployment of one million tanks program in the municipality of Tupanatinga – PE. This program began in 2003 and has promoted a pivot movement and sustainable coexistence with the semiarid ecosystem, through the strengthening of civil society, mobilization, involvement and empowerment of families, with a proposed procedural education. Our research problem to ask: Does the Program One Million Cisterns in the semi-arid region is being implemented from the assumptions of Social Technology and the local development perspective? The overall objective is to identify actions related to Social Technology and Local Development in the implementation of the Program One Million Cisterns in semiarid region of Pernambuco. In order to meet the problem was elaborated following the goal Specific: map institutions, social actors and activities in the implementation of P1MC in Tupanatinga municipality in Pernambuco, from especially the criteria in concepts of Social Technology and Local Development. The methodology used was the case study facing the municipality of Tupanatinga - PE, a qualitative approach. Our theoretical framework is based on the following authors: Buarque (1999), Baumgarten (2006), Tenorio (2007), Dias (2011) and Freitas (2012). In the results found, it is noticed that the P1MC made it possible, by means of participation, some social actors, extend knowing how to do, Despite the fact that part of the beneficiaries consider political slant and assistencialist, the actions of the Programme.