Name: JUCELMA AVANZI CATTO

Publication date: 03/03/2020
Advisor:

Name	Role
EDNILSON SILVA FELIPE	Advisor *
RENATO RIBEIRO SIMAN	Co-advisor *

Examining board:

Name	Role
EDNILSON SILVA FELIPE	Advisor *
GILTON LUÍS FERREIRA	Internal Examiner *
GIOVANILTON ANDRÉ CARRETTA FERREIRA	External Examiner *

Summary: Close to a decade, Law No. 12,305, 2010, August 2, which instituted the National Solid Waste Policy, established guidelines and actions for the integrated management of solid waste (IMSW) and for the management of solid waste (MSW). The performance of urban cleaning and solid waste management services (UCSSWM), in integrated and sustainable manner, imposes great challenges on its direct managers – municipal administrations – mainly related to administrative and financial capacity. Thus, this research analyzes the existing problems in the sectors of urban
solid waste and the administrative capacity in municipalities of Vitoria’s Metropolitan Region (VMR), in the dimension of personnel resources working in the waste sector, and examines the observation to the rules of external control exercised by the Courts of Accounts, with respect to the expenditure of public money. Using bibliographic and documentary review and incursion into city halls, with face-to-face interviews to collect information, this work finds the main challenges in municipal waste management, with great difficulties in the planning and preparation of basic service projects, which create conditions for submission of city halls to outsourced companies providing services. According to the Ishikawa’s categorization (cause and effect diagram), there are more difficulties in the category working method (16), management (15) and in the workforce/personnel (14) than in financial resources (5), measure/measurement system (4) and environment (4). In addition, according to the method used to assess the degree of technical capacity of the teams working in the MSW sectors, the study also shows the weakness of the city halls to manage the urban cleaning services due to the low levels of administrative capacity, with insufficiently dimensioned technical teams. The indicators inform that of the seven municipalities of Metropolitan Region, five have the lowest Degree of Technical Capacity (DTC). The multidisciplinary coefficient (MC) of a municipality’s team is low, four municipalities don’t serve any area of activity considered in the calculation of the index and only two municipalities have a multidisciplinary team. The Coefficient of Multidisciplinarity in Engineering (ENG-MC) informs that six municipalities don’t have a diversified team of engineers and one municipality does. The ability of managers to act with planning (PLC) points out that two municipalities have leaders with ‘adequate training’, managers in two municipalities have ‘regular training’ and those in three municipalities have ‘inadequate training’. Given this scenario, it is important that attention is paid to the administrative capacity of local governments to achieve integrated and sustainable management of solid waste, with awareness of citizens and the economy of public resources.

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