Municipality management profile in the state of pará (Brazil) under the perspective of an effectiveness index

This article is a result of a research that seeks to present the levels of management effectiveness of the municipalities in the state of Pará, calculated through the Municipal Management Effectiveness Index (MMEI), which is composed of seven sectoral indicators: education, health, planning, management fiscal, environmental, citizen protection and information technology and communication governance. The research is characterized as exploratory and the method adopted is bibliographical and documentary analysis. It is understood that the adoption of synthetic indicators to measure effectiveness is a recent topic and little explored in the scope of studies in municipal public management, being important to know and evaluate such instruments through scientific research. The results show that the main difficulty of the municipalities of Pará is in the planning indicator, which presented the lowest level of adequacy in most of municipalities. The present discussion seeks to broaden the debate on the effectiveness of municipal management, presenting the MMEI as an instrument to subsidize the formulation and implementation of public policies that improve and define mechanisms more adequate to the local development process.