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A família é a estrutura base de toda a organização social, proporcionado o melhor ambiente para o desenvolvimento equilibrado das crianças. É com base nesta premissa que o Projecto Família actua junto de famílias em crise, visando a promoção das suas competências e o desenvolvimento de relacionamentos familiares saudáveis, evitando que muitas crianças e jovens vivam em instituições.
Este estudo pretende avaliar a eficácia do Projecto Família, bem como perceber que razões estão na base dos casos em que essa eficácia se revela pouco satisfatória.
Para tal, utilizamos uma nova metodologia de avaliação da implementação de projectos e programas proposta por Mendes (2006), fundada na Teoria da Agência, que consiste , numa primeira fase, em identificar os desvios de implementação, considerando como um dado os objectivos do Projecto Família. Numa segunda etapa esses desvios são explicados com base em restrições de viabilidade, de racionalidade individual e de compatibilidade de incentivos. Para esta análise são considerados os três principais grupos de intervenientes no projecto: a equipa, as entidades sinalizadoras e as famílias intervencionadas.
Após a recolha de dados realizada através da análise documental, entrevistas semi-estruturadas e aplicação de questionários, foram analisados 80 casos de famílias acompanhadas pelo Projecto Família no ano de 2010, com o recurso a métodos quantitativos e qualitativos. A criação e o cálculo de um Índice de Eficácia do projecto permitiram-nos concluir que em quase 70% dos casos analisados o índice de eficácia do projecto é superior a 40%. O baixo valor desse índice apurado nos restantes casos foi explicado pelo facto das restrições de compatibilidade de incentivos não terem sido satisfeitas, com as famílias intervencionadas a terem comportamentos não consistentes com os objectivos do projecto.
Como qualquer estudo de investigação, também esta análise apresenta limitações, como a impossibilidade de obter a participação das famílias envolvidas no projecto bem como desenvolver a análise por um período de tempo mais alargado.
Family is the building block of social organization, providing the best environment for the balanced development of children. Based on this assumption, Projecto Família works with families in crisis, aiming to promote their skills and the development of healthy family relationships, thus avoiding the institutionalization of children and the youth. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Projecto Família, and assess the reasons underlying the cases where effectiveness is not satisfactory. The study follows a new methodology for implementation analysis of projects and programs proposed by Mendes (2006), based on Agency Theory. The first step of this methodology is the assessment of the implementation gaps of the project taking its objectives as given. The second step is the explanation of these gaps by looking at viability constraints, individual rationality and incentive compatibility factors. Three main groups involved in the project were taken into consideration: the team, referring entities and enrolled families. After the collection of data, carried out by document analysis, semi-structured interviews and questionnaires, 80 cases of families accompanied by Projecto Família in 2010 were analyzed, with the use of quantitative and qualitative methods. The creation and calculation of an Effectiveness Index of the project showed that in almost 70% of the cases the effectiveness rate of the project is over 40%. The low value of this index determined in the remaining cases occurs due to the fact that incentive compatibility constraints were not met by the families enrolled, their behavior being poorly consistent with the goals of the project. As with any research, there are shortcomings is this analysis such as the impossibility of getting the participation of the families involved in the project and developing this analysis for a longer period of time.
Family is the building block of social organization, providing the best environment for the balanced development of children. Based on this assumption, Projecto Família works with families in crisis, aiming to promote their skills and the development of healthy family relationships, thus avoiding the institutionalization of children and the youth. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Projecto Família, and assess the reasons underlying the cases where effectiveness is not satisfactory. The study follows a new methodology for implementation analysis of projects and programs proposed by Mendes (2006), based on Agency Theory. The first step of this methodology is the assessment of the implementation gaps of the project taking its objectives as given. The second step is the explanation of these gaps by looking at viability constraints, individual rationality and incentive compatibility factors. Three main groups involved in the project were taken into consideration: the team, referring entities and enrolled families. After the collection of data, carried out by document analysis, semi-structured interviews and questionnaires, 80 cases of families accompanied by Projecto Família in 2010 were analyzed, with the use of quantitative and qualitative methods. The creation and calculation of an Effectiveness Index of the project showed that in almost 70% of the cases the effectiveness rate of the project is over 40%. The low value of this index determined in the remaining cases occurs due to the fact that incentive compatibility constraints were not met by the families enrolled, their behavior being poorly consistent with the goals of the project. As with any research, there are shortcomings is this analysis such as the impossibility of getting the participation of the families involved in the project and developing this analysis for a longer period of time.
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Crianças e jovens em risco Projecto família Análise de implementação Eficácia Children and youth at risk Implementation analysis Effectiveness