Ideias, percepções e ações: análise do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos na Universidade Federal de Pelotas

Abstract

In the field of public policies analysis, there’s a growing interest in the study of the moments before the decision making which takes to the development of the public management agenda. People, their ideas, beliefs and world perception matter and, therefore, to clarify the complexity that blends towards the shaping process of a public agenda, it’s pivotal to value the role of all those involved in its creation. With this theoretical input, whose authors are Baumgartner and Jones (1993), with their Punctuated Equilibrium Theory and Kingdon (2014), with his Multiple Streams Framework, we have focused on the organizational context of a federal higher education institute, the Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel), seeking to explain the construction of the alternative for purchasing inputs for the school restaurants of the institution through the Food Acquisition Program (FAP) and its use to purchase food from regional family farming. Do we try, hence, to answer the questions about how the construction of the alternative for purchasing inputs process was created by FAP as an institutional policy of the University? Besides understanding the relevance of the FAP alternative issue at UFPel, we aim to understand the relevance of the stakeholders involved in the construction of a public agenda point of view, identify their interests for that, notice the reasons which has taken to the possibility of FAP applying calling attention and becomes important at the University. In the end, we were able to see the importance of a group of counterparts, from the institutional field and civil society, who acted, starting from their own ideas, to build a public political image focused on the FAP adoption. As an intervention proposal of the University organization, we indicate the possibility of feeding amplification by FAP to the UFPel’s restaurants.