The new institutional arrangements in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador: the cases of public-private partnerships

Abstract

The metropolitan governance system in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador (RMS) has been going through several processes and challenges. Consequences, above all, of the serious intra-metropolitan problems and the lack of planning and metropolitan management. At the heart of this context, this research aimed to identify the main shared management arrangements in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador that are public-private partnerships (PPPs), in order to analyze their relevance to the metropolitan governance system. The work also brings the standardization of projects in Brazil and the state of Bahia, as well as analyzes the partnerships that are being executed, in bidding and under study in the RMS in 2020. From the methodological point of view, bibliographical surveys and collections data on these arrangements and their regulations and laws, on official websites of the state and federal government, and partner consortia, in addition to newspaper articles and on-site observations. The results showed that there are several public-private partnerships in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador, but only specific institutional arrangements were observed that do not cover the entire metropolitan territory, thus not thinking of ways to solve problems of common interest and to dynamize the Metropolitan Region of Salvador in an integrated and strategic way to promote its urban and sustainable development.