Cooperação interfederativa: Aspectos limitantes à efetividade dos consórcios públicos

The current dynamics of sharing competences and financial resources exposes the need to remodel and refine intergovernmental relations through processes of coordination and cooperation in order to minimize asymmetries. It is in this context that public consortia have been standing out in the federative scenario, given the possibility of responding to certain competences from the gain of scale, technical improvement and rationalization of public spending. Although several entities of this kind have been formalized in the country, the perception remains that the results obtained by these arrangements are still incipient. Thus, the objective of the study is to diagnose the existing limitations in the implementation of associative initiatives between federated entities through public consortia, in order to propose recommendations to improve cooperative ties in favor of more effective results to the demands of public interest. From the research with multiple political and institutional actors located at different levels, nineteen problems were identified, which are related to political-institutional, financing and technical-operational aspects.