Transparência pública: um estudo sobre a prestação de contas nos portais das prefeituras municipais da Paraíba

Abstract

The search for transparency in Public Management, not a theme that suddenly appeared, actions were already beginning to be disseminated, with the idea of ​​publicity, made available in the 1988 Constitution, which came to be reinforced with the Fiscal Responsibility Law - LRF. Being precisely in this scope that this research was visualized, where actions related to the public administration began to be charged, like the accountability. In this way, the information would be made available in a clear and accessible way to the citizen, if also using dissemination tools, such as Transparency Portals. It is precisely in this context that the municipalities of Paraíba were analyzed, regarding their accountability in portals. Taking into account that municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants, it is mandatory to have the information available on official websites, 85 municipalities in Paraíba that were within this role were analyzed. Of the 85 municipalities analyzed, 13 had no portal or at the time of analysis the portal was inactive. Thus, 72 municipalities were analyzed, with the Transparency Index of Municipal Public Management - ITGP-M. It is clear that the municipal portals of Paraíba are still far from being considered transparent, where João Pessoa achieved 48% of what was expected in ITGP-M items, believing in this way that this research will add, in this search for transparency in Use of public resources.