A Proteção Social e a Gestão da Política de Assistência Social na Cidade de João Pessoa, Paraíba

Abstract

The present study aimed to analyze the Social Protection in the SUAS, in reference to the architecture of PNAS/2004, when it comes to ensure the social assistance as a right of citizens and duty of the State, according to its regulatory framework in the country after the 1988 Constitution. The analysis of this dissertation study covered the trajectory of the social assistance having as cut the process of policy management from the deployment of SUAS in 2005 in the city of João Pessoa by the year 2011. The research falls within the field of qualitative research using documentary analysis and instrument information collection and measurements of knowledge: statutes, laws, decrees, resolutions, guidelines which govern the Social Policy in Brazil and in the city, technician reports, "Social Topography of João Pessoa City", beyond the experience as a manager in the social assistance management. The analysis construction was about the consolidation process of the social assistance from the national to the local area, in view of the assertion of social rights. The results of this study indicate, on the one hand, advances in the normative field and its materiality in services and benefits, with procedures for building tools for territorialization of the SUAS in the city, on the other hand, we have seen the limits and challenges faced in the effective policy reflected in the fragility of the social assistance network, which limits access and universal social protection.