Working Paper 95/2000-2011: Avaliação do impacte do conflito de 1998/99: projeto de construção de um observatório de bem-estar do bairro de Quelele
Title: Working Paper 95/2000-2011: Avaliação do impacte do conflito de 1998/99: projeto de construção de um observatório de bem-estar do bairro de Quelele
Author(s): Sangreman, Carlos
Publication Date: 2000-2011
Publisher: ISEG - CEsA
Quotation: Sangreman, Carlos. 2000-2011. "Avaliação do impacte do conflito de 1998/99 : projeto de construção de um observatório de bem-estar do bairro de Quelele". Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão. CEsA - Documentos de Trabalho nº 95/2011.
Abstract: For an analysis of the well-being of populations, we consider it essential to have a clear notion of the concept of State, and of the specific characteristics that it assumes in a country like Guinea-Bissau. Institutions with continuous functioning of qualified personnel and adequate funding, appear in States with a more mature process of organization, and therefore in a State under construction, the decisions on economic and social policy taken by the Government are carried out by institutions in an imperfect way and in accordance with with the degree of development of those who have responsibilities in each area. The result is a slow and difficult transition to the implementation of decisions by the Government or autarchies, creating disillusionment in the populations that expect an increase in the level of well-being provided by these institutions. BAYART (1989), when defining the State in most sub-Saharan African countries, considers a notion of authority that designates the set of institutions involving any position of power that allows the accumulation of capital, through the private appropriation of resources of different types, such as the military, diplomatic, cultural, technological and educational, in addition to the economic ones, whether within the current legislation, whether in predatory actions or charging commissions for decisions of institutional responsibility. Its separation from civil society is unclear, in the sense that individuals in positions of authority seek to appropriate resources for themselves and their social support group in the same way, whether or not they are in these institutional positions. In other words, we adopt, with this interpretation, Bayart's concept of "overlay" for the State/Civil Society dichotomy, where this author defends the idea that such categories are not very clearly distinguished, nor are they of interest for the understanding of African societies. the consideration of an artificially defined distinction, which makes one forget the “depth of the historical field”. It seems to us that this overlap exists in Guinea-Bissau due to the weakness of the institutions mentioned above. It is the existence of this overlap that leads to greater importance in the strategies of populations pursued outside the state framework. In other words, the less the State, the more weight the actions of civil society have. The Welfare assessment and therefore the methodology for building an Observatory that allows us to monitor the evolution of Welfare in the neighborhoods has a theoretical framework that starts from the idea that it is fundamental to determine what would happen if there had not been concrete actions to improve the Welfare. Be. It is thus intended to operationalize the notion of multidimensional Welfare / Poverty, bringing together resources of individual consumption, such as food, of social use (or appropriation), such as those of ethnic or religious origin, and even resources of institutional origin, or participation in the political life of the community. It should be noted that the definition of the components of the EBP is very subjective, no matter how much recourse it makes to the existing literature. The surveys carried out in Europe that sought to determine these components gave very unreliable results either in the elements or in their hierarchy (Hagenaars, 1986). In Africa, participatory methods have not yet managed to generate a definition of generalizable BE standards, although the recent Voices of the Poor, financed by the World Bank, is a significant advance in this direction. What you want to detect is change, for better or worse, and not a static situation. For example, in the housing component, what is sought to be measured is whether housing conditions have improved or worsened.
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/4624
Category: Working paper
Abstract:
For an analysis of the well-being of populations, we consider it essential to have a clear notion of the concept of State, and of the specific characteristics that it assumes in a country like Guinea-Bissau. Institutions with continuous functioning of qualified personnel and adequate funding, appear in States with a more mature process of organization, and therefore in a State under construction, the decisions on economic and social policy taken by the Government are carried out by institutions in an imperfect way and in accordance with with the degree of development of those who have responsibilities in each area. The result is a slow and difficult transition to the implementation of decisions by the Government or autarchies, creating disillusionment in the populations that expect an increase in the level of well-being provided by these institutions. BAYART (1989), when defining the State in most sub-Saharan African countries, considers a notion of authority that designates the set of institutions involving any position of power that allows the accumulation of capital, through the private appropriation of resources of different types, such as the military, diplomatic, cultural, technological and educational, in addition to the economic ones, whether within the current legislation, whether in predatory actions or charging commissions for decisions of institutional responsibility. Its separation from civil society is unclear, in the sense that individuals in positions of authority seek to appropriate resources for themselves and their social support group in the same way, whether or not they are in these institutional positions. In other words, we adopt, with this interpretation, Bayart’s concept of “overlay” for the State/Civil Society dichotomy, where this author defends the idea that such categories are not very clearly distinguished, nor are they of interest for the understanding of African societies. the consideration of an artificially defined distinction, which makes one forget the “depth of the historical field”. It seems to us that this overlap exists in Guinea-Bissau due to the weakness of the institutions mentioned above. It is the existence of this overlap that leads to greater importance in the strategies of populations pursued outside the state framework. In other words, the less the State, the more weight the actions of civil society have. The Welfare assessment and therefore the methodology for building an Observatory that allows us to monitor the evolution of Welfare in the neighborhoods has a theoretical framework that starts from the idea that it is fundamental to determine what would happen if there had not been concrete actions to improve the Welfare. Be. It is thus intended to operationalize the notion of multidimensional Welfare / Poverty, bringing together resources of individual consumption, such as food, of social use (or appropriation), such as those of ethnic or religious origin, and even resources of institutional origin, or participation in the political life of the community. It should be noted that the definition of the components of the EBP is very subjective, no matter how much recourse it makes to the existing literature. The surveys carried out in Europe that sought to determine these components gave very unreliable results either in the elements or in their hierarchy (Hagenaars, 1986). In Africa, participatory methods have not yet managed to generate a definition of generalizable BE standards, although the recent Voices of the Poor, financed by the World Bank, is a significant advance in this direction. What you want to detect is change, for better or worse, and not a static situation. For example, in the housing component, what is sought to be measured, in Avaliação do impacte do conflito de 1998/99 : projeto de construção de um observatório de bem-estar do bairro de Quelele, is whether housing conditions have improved or worsened.
Quotation:
Sangreman, Carlos. 2011. “Avaliação do impacte do conflito de 1998/99 : projeto de construção de um observatório de bem-estar do bairro de Quelele”. Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão. CEsA – Documentos de Trabalho nº 95/2000-2011.
