Transformations in Local Social Action in Portugal

The decentralization of social functions to municipalities, also known as municipal decentralization, triggered new contexts practice in intervention. Municipalities are now dealing with more work and a focus on working partnerships, which calls for greater dynamism the local action teams. This process has pushed workers practices that alternate between mediation through construction access universal standard rights development intervention models specific certain groups. objective this paper is envision forms standardization within framework combining place-based perspectives community structural work. What can we learn from workers’ context order action? We seek analyze professional visions systems reform, discussing practice; functions; their correlation political intermunicipal rights, instrumental dimensions concrete work, value attributed practicing organized research according phenomenological paradigm, mobilizing qualitative method multiple-case study. Based evidence discourse all professionals involved study, findings indicate transformations systems, associated processes imply comprehensiveness intervention, ability approach matrices, but they present challenges terms multilevel governance may favor better well-being territories.