TCE-MT-Public Security Policy

Center for Metropolitan Studies – CEM/CEBRAP

CEM

Tribunal de Contas do Estado de Mato Grosso (Accounting Court of the State of Mato Grosso)

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DIAGNOSTICS PERFORMANCE OF THE STATE OF MATO GROSSO GOVERNMENT IN THE PUBLIC SECURITY POLICIES

The partnership between the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM) and the Accounting Office of the State of Mato Grosso - TCE-MT yielded another result in the field of public policies evaluation. Like the work in the areas of education and health in 2008, now the methodology and the evaluation model designed by CEM has been adapted for public security policy.

The result of this partnership consolidates the advances in the area of policy evaluation. For CEM, this renews the center’s commitment to transfer knowledge in the form of new technologies, indicators or methodologies, supporting the political and social processes that involve public policy. For the TCE-MT, this qualifies its ability to act as an oversight agency. The partnership focuses the correct allocation of public resources and, above all, contrives the citizen participation in social control over the quality of public services rendered to the population by state and municipal governments.

The evaluation model allows us to understand and evaluate the phenomenon of violence and criminality in the State of Mato Grosso, between 2009 and 2010 under different dimensions. On one hand, it measures the prevalence of the problem according to their occurrence by region and its temporal evolution. For this, seven indicators were selected to compose the panel of results and sixteen units of observation (denominated “regions”) were designed, taking into account groups of municipalities of the State of Mato Grosso. The model was designed so as to enable the spatial distribution of these indicators and their comparability between regions (Index of Crime and Victimization), and within the same region at different times (Growth Index).

As a result, the model provides a panel for monitoring, evaluating and overseeing—in the form of public information—the performance of the state government of Mato Grosso in the actions they undertake in the area of security.

PRODUCT 2

FINAL REPORT

The diagnostic report is also available for consultation on the TCE-MT's own website

São Paulo, October 2011

Institutional and Technical DATA SHEET.

ACCOUNTING COURT OF THE STATE OF MATO GROSSO

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