A (des)proteção social da juventude: uma análise à luz da avaliação do Projovem Urbano segundo seus/as usuários/as no município de João Pessoa-PB

Abstract

This investigation concerns the Urban Projovem evaluation acoording to its users in João Pessoa/PB from the perspective of (Un)Social Protection of Youth. The construction of this object is the result of a legitimate concern about the current social indicators that characterize the reality of many people young. This study comes from the understanding of youth as a social category historically determined. The concept involves analyzing the young people of contemporary Brazil and see them the features of a capitalist society marked by the contradictory relations of social production and reproduction. By virtue of a social exclusion and unequal dynamic, the youth becomes a victim of poverty, violence, structural unemployment, the destruction of social rights and a series of developments arising from changes occurring in the order of capital and the world of work stressing, thus, the process of social unprotection of most, youth included. To conduct this research process it was based on the following analysis categories: contemporary societal transformations, Youth, Social Protection/unprotection, Evaluation of Social Programs. Adopting the perspective of social program evaluation involves pursuing a research methodology that makes use of a critical reading of reality in order to articulate the micro and macro elements that pervade and set social policies in contemporary times, especially in dealing with issues that involve their youth. This is an applied social research among 39 Urban Projovem users from the center RaimundoNonato, located in the community Gervasio Mayan, in the city of Joao Pessoa / PB. As a methodological tool we used the System of Indicators for the Evaluation of Social Programs (SIAPS) through three social indicators: accessibility, quality and effectiveness of Urban Projovem. About the access to the program, it was found that the young people interviewed did not present the difficulties, although the official media to publicize the program could not directly reach the youth segment that information obtained through the community. In the evaluation of Urban Projovem users , it was presented the quality in the provision of services offered and a significant percentage had no problems with the program. Another indicator that pointed to the quality program related to the fact that more than 80% have assigned or great or good concept. With regard to the social indicator of effectiveness this study confirms that the majority of the young people indicated the effectiveness of the program from the following aspects: meeting the needs (vocational and educational), satisfaction with the actions taken by the program, especially subjective aspects and indications of changes in life after attending the program. There is, however, the fragility of the Program with respect to the size of the "Citizen Participation", because it is a secondary aspect by the young during this investigative study. In terms conclusive, attests to the effectiveness of Urban Projovem, according to its users in the city of João Pessoa / PB. However, given the complexity that shapes the youth reality in the current context of the Capital, which have been diversified the emergence of new social demands, stands as a major political challenge to service these needs by the current Social Protection System in Brazil, and in a particular way, under the Youth Public Policies in the construction process in a macro context where youth in Brazil still experiences a lack of social protection.