Monitoring and evaluation of public policies in Brazil: conceptual approach and trajectory of legal and institutional development

AutorRobert Bonifácio, Fabricio Macedo Motta
CargoProfessor da Universidade Federal de Goiás (Goiânia-GO, Brasil). Doutor em ciência política pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte-MG, Brasil). Membro permanente dos programas de pós-graduação em Ciência Política e em Direito e Políticas Públicas. E-mail: rbonisilva@gmail.com / Professor Permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduaç...
Páginas340-371
Rev. Direito Econ. Socioambiental, Curitiba, v. 12, n. 2, p. 340-371, maio/ago. 2021
ISSN 2179-8214
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Revista de
Direito Econômico e
Socioambiental
doi: 10.7213/rev.dir.econ.soc.v12i3.28653
Monitoring and evaluation of public policies in Brazil:
conceptual approach and trajectory of legal and
institutional development
Monitoramento e avaliação de políticas públicas no Brasil:
abordagem conceitual e trajetória de desenvolvimento jurídico
e institucional
Robert Bonifácio*
Universidade Federal de Goiás (Brazil)
rbonisilva@gmail.com
Fabricio Macedo Motta**
Universidade Federal de Goiás (Brazil)
fabriciommotta@gmail.com
Recebido: 27/09/2021 Aprovado: 24/11/2021
Received: 09/27/2021 Approved: 11/24/2021
* Professor da Universidade Federal de Goiás (Goiânia-GO, Brasil). Doutor em ciência política pela
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte-MG, Brasil). Membro permanente dos programas
de pós-graduação em Ciência Política e em Direito e Políticas Públicas. E-mail: rbonisilva@gmail.com
** Professor Permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito e Políticas Públicas (Goiânia-GO,
Brasil). Doutor em Direito do Estado pela Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo-SP, Brasil). Mestre em
Direito Administrativo pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte-MG, Brasil).
Conselheiro do Tribunal de Contas dos Municípios do Estado de Goiás. E -mail:
fabriciommotta@gmail.com
Como citar este artigo/How to cite this article: BONIFÁCIO, Robert; MOTTA, Fabrício Macedo.
Monitoring and evaluation of public policies in Brazil: conceptual approach and trajectory of legal
and institutional development. Revista de Direito Econômico e Socioambiental, Curitiba, v. 12, n. 2,
p. 340-371, maio/ago. 2021. doi: 10.7213/rev.dir.econ.soc.v12i3.28653
Monitoring and evaluation of public policies in Brazil: conceptual
approach and trajectory of legal and institutional development
Rev. Direito Econ. Socioambiental, Curitiba, v. 12, n. 2, p. 340-371, maio/ago. 2021
Resumo
O artigo investiga a área de monitoramento e avaliação de políticas públicas a partir de
abordagem conceitual e de interpretação sobre seu desenvolvimento institucional no Brasil.
Para tanto, são construídas analises críticas a partir das perspectivas jurídica e sociopolítica.
Especificamente, são definidas e discutidas as funções políticas do monitoramento e da
avaliação; discorre-se sobre a emersão e constituição de sistemas de avaliação na América
Latina e no Brasil e são feitas reflexões sobre a importância da avaliação no ordenamento
jurídico brasileiro, bem como sobre os recentes avanços no Poder Legislativo. Como principais
conclusões, é apontado que o uso político dos trabalhos de avaliação de políticas públicas
assume função de realocação e que tem sido possível perceber avanços institucionais na área,
mas que ainda há limitações em relação ao escopo dos trabalhos avaliativos.
Palavras-chave: monitoramento e avaliação; políticas públicas; sistemas de avaliação de
políticas públicas; funções políticas; desenvolvimento institucional.
Abstract
This paper investigates the area of monitoring and evaluation of public policies from a
conceptual approach and an interpretation of its institutional development in Brazil.
Therefore, we build critical analyzes from the legal and sociopolitical perspectives. Specifically,
we define and discuss the political functions of monitoring and evaluation, discuss the
emergence and constitution of evaluation systems in Latin America and Brazil, and reflect on
the importance of evaluation in the Brazilian legal system, as well as on recent advances in
Legislative Power. As main conclusions, we understand that the political use of public policy
evaluation works assumes a reallocation function, that there have been institutional advances
in the area, but that there are still limitations in relation to the scope of evaluative works.
Keywords: monitoring and evaluation; public policy; public policy evaluation system; political
functions; institutional arrangements.
Contents
1. Introduction. 2. M&E: conceptualization and instrument of power. 2.1. Definition and
characteristics. 2.2. M&E: history and political functions. 3. M&E in Latin America and Brazil.
3.1. M&E path in Latin America and Brazil. 3.2. Reference works in M&E in Brazil. 4 M&E’s
growing role in the legal system and in legislative production. 4.1. Competences and
institutional arrangements linked to M&E: legal approach. 4.2. Inspection aspects reflecting
on monitoring and evaluation activities. 4.3. M&E i n the CF88: proposal and reality. 5. Final
remarks. References.
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1. Introduction
This study analyzes aspects related to the area of monitoring and
evaluation of public policies (M&E), from a conceptual approach; analysis of
the historical trajectory of its political functions and institutional
development in Latin America; and the debate about its importance and its
increasing value in legislation and in the legal system. The article provides a
mapping of the M&E area and reflects on it critically from sociopolitical and
legal perspectives.
It is usually considered that, from the 1990s onwards, the last phase
of what is conventionally called the public policy cycle, the evaluation of
public policies, began to incite greater interest from academics and
government actors in Brazil. This movement stemmed from the success of
neoliberal ideals, which influenced the transformation of public
management into more managerial and directed the actions of transnational
organizations to finance social intervention projects that prioritized both the
target audience and the evaluation of their results.
The rise in the status of public policy evaluation in the governmental
environment has meant that issues pertaining to this field have been
considered when defining government investments. As a result, there has
been a considerable increase in scientific productions that relate to this
theme, especially those referring to the techniques involved in evaluative
studies, as well as the institutional design of public policies that encompass
the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) stages.
The article is organized as follows: in the first section, the political
functions of M&E are defined and discussed and, subsequently, in the second
section, the emergence and constitution of systems in Latin America and
Brazil is addressed. The third section, in turn, deals with the centrality of
M&E in the legal system and in legislative production. Finally, in the final
remarks, the contributions of the work to the improvement of monitoring
and evaluation activities are summarized.
2. M&E: conceptualization and instrument of power
In this section, the terms monitoring and evaluation of public policies
are defined and their main characteristics are highlighted, and critical
approaches are presented. Furthermore, some of the main contributions of

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