Políticas públicas para sustentabilidade: o caso do projeto Ipirá na usina hidrelétrica de Tucuruí‐Pa

The study analyzed the Ipirá fish farming project, implemented in the reservoir of the hydroelectric plant of Tucuruí, State of Pará, in order to assess how their actions contribute to the improvement of living conditions of the families served by the same from the analysis economic and social indicators. Therefore, it was used as methodological procedures, the case study and the systemic model for aquaculture, particularly the calculation of the indexes that it composes the sustainability of economic and social sub‐system: Economic and Social Development Index (IDES) and Social Capital Index (ICS). The data were obtained by conducting field research and documentary research. The data collection instruments were the semi‐structured interviews. The interviews were applied individually with all the heads of the families served by the project, with the president It was observed that, despite the IDES and ICS present results that frame the project as medium level of economic and social development, according to the adopted model, it is emphasized that the project does not contribute significantly to the improvement of household living conditions in aspects housing and income, given that it is through these indicators that the human being begins to acquire essential goods and services for family maintenance and welfare condition, so the project does not constitute as an inducer instrument of economic development social.