Socioeconomic Diagnosis a Tool for Strategic Planning of Public Authority Actions

This paper proposes the use of Socioeconomic Diagnosis as a tool for the elaboration of the Multi-Year Planning of public management. The research methodology used was descriptive and applied with a qualitative approach. The research instruments involved were field research and document analysis. During the document analysis, it was identified that the form of planning popularly used in the Municipality of Matelândia is built based only on meetings, held mandatorily and randomly in communities in the municipalities, resulting from the “Inherited State”, remnants of times gone by. The results of the research highlighted the need to migrate to the “Necessary State”, with the intention of not only resolving existing demands, but also creating new demands and opportunities. To this end, planning with the use of concrete data becomes essential, and based on the case of the Municipality of Matelândia, it is proposed to use the tool to obtain these data, which is the Socioeconomic Diagnosis.