Medição de desempenho para cooperação internacional: proposta de modelo a partir do Projeto "Sífilis Não!"

Abstract

International Cooperation is an important means for strengthening institutional capacities and developing countries in the most diverse areas, including health. However, there is a knowledge gap in the literature regarding the development of specific performance measurement systems for international cooperation agreements and activities that go beyond the financial perspective or factors intrinsic to the object of cooperation. The objective of this study is propose a model to measure the performance of international cooperation activities aimed to public health projects, using as a case study the experience of the "Sífilis Não!" Project. The research is applied in nature, takes a qualitative-quantitative approach with the research case as a methodological procedure. The research is comprised of three stages: i) theoretical research, through the Systematic Literature Review (RBS) technique; ii) field research, conducted through a research case, which had as sources of information project documents, online information and interviews with key project participants and experts in international cooperation; iii) structuring of the performance measurement system. The proposed model has 23 indicators distributed in 6 dimensions: Sustainability (3), Result (9), Stakeholders (2), Processes (5), Learning (2) and Resources (2). The proposed performance indicators showed that the international cooperation activities of the “Sífilis Não!” Project were diversified, including the entire typology presented by the Brazilian Cooperation Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Thus, it contributed to disseminating the syphilis agenda in the fields of health, education and science and technology, in addition to problematizing the syphilis epidemic in countries that did not have it on their public health agenda.