This essay analyzes the effectiveness of social participation on municipal councils in the management of public policies. The goal is to identify intersectorality in this field, because the reordering of socio-institutional relations after 1988 established countless challenges confronted in the routine activities of municipal management councils to process actions in this logic. The first section discusses some understandings and processes of intersectoral actions in the reality studied. An analysis is then made of the intersectoral and network action as local bases for protection and development. The paper concludes that intersectoriality, as a space for sharing knowledge and power and for the construction of new languages, practices and concepts, is currently not established or sufficiently experimented by municipal public-policy management councils. Intersectoriality is still a challenging process to be exercised, because it necessarily implies articulating the councils with various social levels.
public policies; social management; intersectorality; networks