Resumo:
The Cities Statute (CS) regulates articles 182 and 183 of the Federal Constitution, establishing a set of participatory legal instruments that combined determine how urban policy should be conducted throughout the country. However, the application of the CS represents a challenge for the municipal administration, one of the reasons is the demand for popular participation in the management of urban policy to ensure the equity of citizens' rights. To promote this participation representative committees are created with members who represent the parts of society in the municipality. However, the members of the committees involved in the elaboration of the CS instruments, in most cases, have divergent demands on public choices, conflicting agendas and other characteristics that make it difficult for the work to be conducted in a harmonious and efficient way. Therefore, it is always necessary to try to encourage collaboration so that everyone involved can present their point of view and actively participate. In this way, this work proposes the analysis of the intervention of a collaborative system, called Collaborative Committee, in the activities conducted by committees during the elaboration of participatory legal instruments of the CS. The Collaborative Committee was implemented in real projects conducted by a research and extension group from the Federal University of Itajubá that helps municipalities in the elaboration and revision of these instruments, following the guidelines of the action research methodology. In the analysis of the results, it was possible to notice that there was an improvement in the coordination of activities, an advance in the cooperation between those involved and better opportunities for communication between the members with the intervention of the Collaborative Committee.
