Quilombola women and public policies: analysis of the practice of implementing gender and race policies in the 

quilombola community in the State of Bahia

This work presents analyzes and reflections based on research developed with black Quilombola women on public policies aimed at gender and race equity in rural areas. The study was carried out in the Quilombola Community of Várzea Queimada, in the municipality of Caém, located approximately 300 km from Salvador, in the northern
region of the State of Bahia. The objective is to reflect on how black women experience the implementation of public policies, as well as how such policies interfere in their lives and in the internal dynamics of gender and race and in the production of their identities as women farmers. From the perspective of decoloniality and Afrodiasporic thinking (MALDONATO, 2019), I critically approach how quilombola women experience public policies in their time, space and subjectivities, in the rural context of Bahia. I emphasize the importance of female militancy, based on black feminism, using as references the conceptions of Lelia Gonzalez, Vilma Reis, Luiza Bairros, among other important scholars. The great challenge of public policy is to understand the specificities of communities, promote dialogue and establish local and regional partnerships so that the achievement of structuring results becomes a reality, I bring monitoring and evaluation as fundamental tools for public management, as well as in the improvement and in the formulation of new political and social interventions.