Policy Coordination, Brazil

Synonyms

Policy collaboration; Policy coordination; Policy integration

Definition

The policy coordination is a task usually attributed to the chief of the Executive Branch to integrate departments and processes to guarantee the governability aiming at conducting public policies and providing services to society.

Introduction

One of the fundamental challenges of Brazilian public governance, policy coordination involves the hard task in articulating institutions; integrating processes, rules, systems, bureaucracy, and stakeholders to improve integration between different levels and spheres of the public sector; and avoiding redundancies and gaps in order to generate, preserve, and deliver public value.

Plenty of governing structures allied to contradictory and redundant public programs is a common sense diagnosis in public sector realities, particularly in federalist countries such as Brazil.

This article intends to bring readers to Brazilian policy coordination context, in progress in...