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The decentralization of public management occurred in Brazil contributed substantially to the formation of local institutional arrangements, especially those of an intermunicipal and territorial character. The formation of these arrangements is expressed in different formats, such as consortia, associations, forums and committees. In a territory, different institutional arrangements can coexist and operate, each with its own development agendas. Therefore, strengthening the relationship between public, private and social actors - distributed in specific arrangements - becomes a demand and a basic element of territorial governance. Our objective is to analyze, through the Sudoeste Paulista territory, the performance of its institutional arrangements, as well as the relations and articulations between them in a supposed dynamic of territorial governance. This study used two instruments to collect the data, which were bibliographic searches and semi-structured interviews. Our analyzes considered two dimensions in the arrangements: the political and the administrative dimension. The results and discussions lead us to the understanding that the dynamics of territorial governance - in the Sudoeste Paulista territory and referring to the articulations between arrangements -, although incipient, already present relative results of cooperation, especially in coinciding agendas between the arrangements. In this study, the arrangement that best contributed to territorial governance was the CDR, which is strongly linked to Higher Education Institutions (IES) and Science and Technology (ICTs), which adopts participatory processes, which have agents trained to promote coordination and that, when compared with the other arrangements, he built innovative projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 2003 and 2016, the Brazilian federal government implemented the National Program for the Sustainable Development of Rural Territories (PRONAT), whose governance took place in joint participatory colleges formed by social actors, their organizations and government representatives. Social management constituted the guiding framework of the program and the social management cycle sought to organize the processes of participation, coordination, management and social control of public policies by territorial actors. The Ministry of Agrarian Development began to design its monitoring and evaluation system in 2007. For this purpose, it mobilized teams of researchers from several public universities in the country. The evaluation of social management and its concrete indicators in two cycles of monitoring and evaluation, configuring itself as a decentralized process through an index composed of the several relevant indicators theoretically and methodologically, embedded in the Social Management Index (IGS). This paper aims to: (i) discuss the theoretical references that guided the construction of the IGS, ii) present the trajectory of the evaluation methodology and the associated monitoring and evaluation systems and iii) characterize the dimensions of the index. Lessons are given about construction process that favoured tinkering, learning and hybridization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]