How many dollars does social participation promote? Case study on the World Bank action in Rio de Janeiro's Sustainable Rural Development.

Rio Rural is a Sustainable Rural Development Program focused on micro-basins that receive funding from the World Bank for implementation in the public period from 2006 to 2018 and modified the entire structure of technical assistance in the state of Rio de Janeiro for focusing on promoting sustainable agricultural systems, taking the watershed as a locus of state action and implementing self-management in rural communities, through the formation of microbasin management committees (COGEM). Initially it had the North and Northwest Fluminense regions as priorities due to its agricultural history, being expanded to the Serra after the natural tragedy of the mountain region in 2011. It was implemented in 3 phases that differ basically by the financing agent - GEF and Bird and, despite of the mishaps, achieved the proposed goals, according to official documents. However, it was expected that, even after the completion of the BM's financing projects, the management committees would remain active and put pressure on local governments to redirect funds to program actions - which was not the case. It was also observed the non-continuity of the internal activities of COGEMs, after the end of the Rio Rural Bird providing evidence that the self-management implemented was not perennial, although it aimed at this in its objectives. Thus, this dissertation sought to analyze, shedding light as the bank's own actions in the context of fostering development projects, the institutional of such failure in the continuity of self-management so that, above all, they are not reproduced, in view of the approval, in 2019, of the amount of R $ 45 million by ALERJ for the continuity of the Program.