This thesis explores the ways in which a municipal government in Brazil developed itself as a learning system through the support of a capacity-building project funded by the Canadian International Development Agency. The project, which began in 1998, focuses on building capacity for adaptive, community based watershed management in the municipality of Santo Andre. It involves a team of Canadian partners led by the University of British Columbia Centre for Human Settlements. Santo Andre is a city of 600,000 people in the Sao Paulo metropolitan area. The focus of the thesis is on Santo Andre's planners' perspectives about the individual learning, and related organizational changes, that were induced by the project. In-depth interviews were conducted with twenty-one staff holding a variety of planning responsibilities. The findings are that, while not planned for in the design of the project, learning occurred at three levels: learning by the planners as individuals engaging in daily practices, learning through changes in the planners' relationships with one another and with residents of Santo Andre's Watershed Protection Area, and learning through and about the organisational processes of the municipal government itself. It is concluded that international capacity-building projects can contribute to the enhancement of local planning to the extent they are structured to address the potential for learning at all three of these levels.

This thesis explores the ways in which a municipal government in Brazil developed itself as a learning system through the support of a capacity-building project funded by the Canadian International Development Agency. The project, which began in 1998, focuses on building capacity for adaptive, community based watershed management in the municipality of Santo Andre. It involves a team of Canadian partners led by the University of British Columbia Centre for Human Settlements. Santo Andre is a city of 600,000 people in the Sao Paulo metropolitan area. The focus of the thesis is on Santo Andre's planners' perspectives about the individual learning, and related organizational changes, that were induced by the project. In-depth interviews were conducted with twenty-one staff holding a variety of planning responsibilities. The findings are that, while not planned for in the design of the project, learning occurred at three levels: learning by the planners as individuals engaging in daily practices, learning through changes in the planners' relationships with one another and with residents of Santo Andre's Watershed Protection Area, and learning through and about the organisational processes of the municipal government itself. It is concluded that international capacity-building projects can contribute to the enhancement of local planning to the extent they are structured to address the potential for learning at all three of these levels. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of / Graduate

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-12-11T12:41:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Adair Loredo dos Santos.pdf: 1125875 bytes, checksum: 1d3818285716300d123b1f56dd164d7b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T12:41:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Adair Loredo dos Santos.pdf: 1125875 bytes, checksum: 1d3818285716300d123b1f56dd164d7b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-10-29 / In this study, the administrations of mayors of Gilberto Kassab and Fernando Haddad were analyzed with the intention of demonstrating the performance of democratic controls in the fight against corruption, as well as the practices in the public policy of the city of Sao Paulo during the period of their administrations. As a result, the case known as the "Audit Tax Mafia" was analyzed, which shows the State's fragility in containing, restraining, and extirpating these criminal organizations located within its core. It also emphasizes the importance of administrative actions and decisions aimed at interfering in partisan and personal political interests, or as reinforcers of practices of corruption and disorder. The study demonstrates that the institutional apparatus, which should exercise the function of control, suffers numerous negative interferences and, to a large extent, treats the cases superficially and without the rigor that a realignment of paths would require, as well as in the sphere of Justice. As a result, corruption becomes "institutionalized" and becomes a part of the current politicaladministrative system, within a promiscuous correlation between the executive and legislative branches and several other agents, among them lies a section of public officials / Neste estudo foram analisadas as práticas na política pública do município de São Paulo, no período das gestões dos prefeitos Gilberto Kassab e Fernando Haddad, a fim de demonstrar a atuação dos controles democráticos no combate à corrupção. Para isso, analisou-se o caso conhecido como “Máfia dos Auditores Fiscais”, o qual mostra a fragilidade do Estado em conter, coibir e em extirpar essas organizações criminosas instaladas em seu cerne. Além de ressaltar a importância de ações e decisões administrativas voltadas para a ingerência de interesses políticos partidários e pessoais, ou como reforçadores de práticas de corrupção e de desmandos. O estudo demonstra que o aparato institucional, que deveria exercer a função de controladoria, sofre inúmeras interferências negativas e, em grande parte, trata os casos de maneira superficial e sem o rigor que uma correção de rota exigiria, inclusive na esfera da Justiça. Com isso, a corrupção acaba “institucionalizada” e como parte do sistema políticoadministrativo vigente, numa correlação promíscua entre os poderes executivo, legislativo e diversos outros agentes, dentre eles, uma parte de funcionários públicos