Adherence of the Federal Institutes of Education to the Environmental Agenda in the Public Administration

Abstract

The Environmental Agenda in Public Administration (A3P) is a voluntary action by public institutions to reduce their negative socio-environmental impacts, in the context of environmental management and sustainability and in compliance with the principle of efficiency. In this sense, the Public Teaching Institutions (IEP) have a prominent role, because in addition to training professionals and conscious citizens, their campuses must have the same environmental concerns as a small city. The study analyzes how institutions from the same region, with similar structures and objectives, deal differently with the environmental issue. By analyzing these institutions with a single checklist, it becomes possible to externalize these differences. With the objective of evaluating the level of adherence of the Federal Institutes of Education of the Southern Region of Brazil to the axes of the Environmental Agenda in Public Administration. Being a qualitative and descriptive research with secondary data available on the websites of the Institutes, with analysis through a checklist formed by the items of the 6 thematic axes of the A3P. With the systematization of the data, it was verified whether the management procedures that are in accordance with the requirements of the A3P, synthesized in the qualitative analysis of the data. It was identified that the Institutes are not formal partners of A3P, but seek to meet its requirements, with a high adherence to the A3P axes, another point identified is that there is no standardization in management reports. This work demonstrates the need for constant evaluations of the IEP to verify its evolution in environmental management.