FEDERALISM AS A CONDUCTING ELEMENT FOR POLICY EFFECTIVENESS: THE 2030 AGENDA MOVEMENT FROM THE GLOBAL TO THE LOCAL LEVEL IN BRAZIL, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE STRUCTURAL CITY PROJECT

Abstract

The article aims to endeavor an analysis comparing the federalist government system as a strategy for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), having in the territory a point of public policy intersection. In this sense, the opening of cooperative potential between State and Society was examined as vectors for improving public deliveries for the Healthy and Sustainable Structural City project in the Federal District (DF), under the lens of practice, in the context of contemporary complexity, whose Empirical data were collected between 2017-2020. Therefore, methodology has Case Study as method, according to Yin (2005) and Ragin and Becker (2009); documental research as technique, according to Kripka, Scheller and Bonotto (2015), for collecting documents; IRaMuTeq software instrument for processing the collected data; and content analysis by Triviños (1987). The results highlight how the 2030 Agenda internalization and institutionalization dimensions contributed to actions to empower citizens as popular researchers in popular surveillance in the territory. Such dimensions have established themselves as strategic movements, since the actions of the aforementioned subnational government may have perpetuity and/or even exceed the limit of political mandates, with a focus on sustainable development, contributing to inclusive policy formulation, considering ex ante decision by managers, in favor of social transformation and democracy to strengthen social participation for territorial governance, even in the face of an adverse scenario set by the federal government with the publication of Decree n.º 9,759, in 2019.