Niterói city hall records management program: legal foundations and methodological procedures as a contribution to SDG 16 of the UN 2030 agenda

Abstract

This research addresses records management as a contribution to meeting Sustainable Development Goal 16 of the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations, the Records Management Program of the Municipality of Niterói, a module Municipal Finance Department. This is applied research developed at a postdoctoral level in Information Science within the scope of the PDPA 4408 Project “A municipal public archive for Niterói”. It aims to present the legal foundations and methodological procedures applied in the Records Management Program/Niterói, as a contribution to access to information, and a reference for the municipalities of Leste Fluminense and Brazil. The methodology proposed for this research is configured in two dimensions: theoretical and applied. From the theoretical point of view, it is characterized as exploratory and descriptive research, with a scientific approach of a qualitative nature. From the applied point of view, the methodological strategy adopted was the case study of archival identification to the classification and evaluation of public documents, whose research universe is the Records Management Program/Niterói. As a result, we present the legal bases, guidelines, processes, activities, and records management instruments prepared and applied in the Records Management Program/Niterói, as well as the results achieved.