With the "Public Governance: the challenge of Brazil" lecture, the minister of the Court of Union Accounts (TCU), Augusto Nardes, opened, this Thursday (June 9th), the IV Forum of Governance in the Justice System, an event held by the Court of Justice of the State of Tocantins (TJTO) in partnership with the Superior School of the Judges of the State of Tocantins (Esmat), the Latin American Institute of Governance and Public Compliance (IGCP), and the Governance Network Brazil (RGB), an association composed of public servers, public and private managers, technicians, professors, professionals from the most diverse areas, specialists, and society, who, together, work towards governance.
The event was aimed at providing knowledge to the public institutions on good resource management, the creation of ethical values, the generation of social capital, and compliance, with the certainty that good governance is crucial for the Judiciary of the State of Tocantins to ensure that citizenship is served by the distribution of a speedy, safe, and effective justice.
The Forum had an all-day program and was aimed at Brazilian and foreign public servers and magistrates from the Judiciary, students, professors, professionals and members of the justice system, and public servers from Esmat's partner organizations.
In a lecture that had as the coordinators of the table the president of TJTO, Justice João Rigo Guimarães, and the auxiliary Judge of the presidency, Manuel de Farias Reis Neto, the Minister highlighted the importance of the institutions improving the institutional dialogue, which will result in transversality among the public entities, with governance being the instrument for strengthening the public administration as a whole and the society will be the main beneficiary.
Direction, evaluation and monitoring
Besides commenting that governance follows in the sense of seeking a course to give a direction to a safe harbor, Augusto Nardes, who is also an ambassador for RGB, pointed out that governance is based on three pillars: direction, evaluation, and monitoring. "It is necessary to think about the governance of the public institutions with direction, monitoring, and risk assessment. Without it we have no governance, without governance we have no security. To achieve this, it is necessary to institute important measures such as the structuring of government centers, to make possible the articulation among the federative entities, to promote the union among education, technology, and sustainability, and to establish indicators for the evaluation and monitoring of the governors", he pointed out.
Management x Governance
During the event, the Minister made a presentation with data exposure, governance indicators, and talked about the trajectory of his work, the creation of indicators, and the Brazil Governance Network.
He also commented on public organizational governance, which, according to him, is the application of leadership, strategic, and control practices that allow the mandataries of a public organization and its stakeholders to assess its status and demands, direct its actions, and monitor its functioning. He also explained how governance and management are different.
“Governance is to have a macro vision of everything that happens and it is different from management. Management is fundamental, but it is different from governance. Management is to execute. Governance is to analyze through a macro view of everything. However, it is not an easy task, because having a national vision of everything is difficult, since there are 15 million employees between States, municipalities and the Union. That is why we need to have a central governance, with transversality. In Brazil we still have a lot of work done on the basis of improvisation. Whoever is elected thinks he owns the position and, many times, doesn't coordinate with his team, but does what he thinks is the best. With this, we have only one thinking head. And governance is a set of many heads to think and hands to put into practice," he pondered.
Judiciary
“In the scope of the Judiciary, governance must be understood as the management of justice, aiming to direct its gears so that it fulfills its institutional mission which, in the State of Tocantins, is to guarantee citizenship through the distribution of a fast, safe, and effective justice. We have made considerable progress, especially with the consolidation of our strategic planning, but achieving this goal requires a constant concern about the system's ability to act effectively and decisively to solve the presented problems," said the president of TJTO, Justice João Rigo Guimarães, noting that these "are increasingly recurring issues before the need to meet the growing demand of the public without the same proportion of increase in costs, which requires a constant application of good practices to improve the results”.
The Justice also talked about the potential of his team. "I work with a highly competent team that has my confidence. But I emphasize that we will only reach a considerable level if we take into consideration what was said by the Minister: with strategy, transparency, creation of indicators, direction, monitoring and evaluation. That is the way."
IGCP
During the lecture, the visitors also had the opportunity to learn a little more about the Latin American Institute of Governance and Public Compliance (IGCP), with a remote speech by its president, Ricardo Todeschini Zílio, and the presentation of a video.
Tribute
Upon being received in the president João Rigo's office, who was together with other Justices and the presidency's assistant Judges, Minister Augusto Nardes was invited to receive a tribute from the TJTO, with a plaque exposed in the gallery of illustrious visitors to the Court.
Presences
The table of the lecture also had the participation of the following authorities: Chief of Justice, Judge Etelvina Maria Sampaio Felipe; Judge Angela Haonat; Judge Angela Prudente; João Ornato Benigno Brito, coordinator of Strategic Management, Statistics and Projects (Coges-TJTO); Kledson de Moura Lima, General Attorney of the State, who represented Governor Wanderlei Barbosa; General attorney of the Municipality, Mauro Ribas, who represented the mayor of the city of Palmas, Cinthia Ribeiro; Public Defender Murilo da Costa Machado, who represented the General Public Defender of the State, Estelamaris Postal; OAB/TO vice-president, Priscila Madruga, who represented President Gedeon Pitaluga Júnior; President of the State Audit Court, Counselor Napoleão de Souza Luz Sobrinho; and the General Attorney of Justice, Luciano Casaroti.
