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Cash Transfer
Bolsa Verde Program Sheet PT EN ES FR
Contains a more detailed overview of the Bolsa Verde Program – a cash transfer program subject to socio-environmental conditionalities that seeks to foster better living conditions for people and communities that carry out natural resources conservation activities in rural areas. This Program Sheet is intended to raise awareness of the history, management, implementation and monitoring of the Program.
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Cash Transfer
Fact Sheet of the Bolsa Verde Program PT EN ES FR
This Fact Sheet encapsulates essential information about the Bolsa Verde Program. The Program´s basic goals are twofold: to promote environmental conservation through productive inclusion, and to improve the incomes and the quality of life of families living in extreme poverty.
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Rural Productive Inclusion
Fact sheet of the Rural Productive Activities Oriented Cash Transfer PT EN ES FR
This WWP two-page Fact Sheet relays the key points of the Rural Productive Activities Oriented Cash Transfer, offering a brief overview of its objectives and the actors involved in its implementation since 2011. The Oriented Cash Transfer incentivizes small rural farmers to improve their animal husbandry and agricultural production practices by offering non-refundable resource transfers and technical assistance and rural extension (ATER) services.
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Rural Productive Inclusion
Data sheet of the Rural Productive Activities Oriented Cash Transfer PT EN ES FR
This Program Sheet provides a comprehensive overview of the Rural Productive Activities Oriented Cash Transfer (Programa de Fomento às Atividades Produtivas Rurais), which has served over 214,000 Brazilian families since its inception in 2011. Learn more about the program’s objectives, history, institutions, target audience, funding, management, and implementation, among other topics. The Oriented Cash Transfer is an important facet of the strategy to fight against poverty and hunger in the poorest populations of rural Brazil.
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Rural Productive Inclusion
Rural Productive Inclusion: The Technical Assistance Experience and Grant from the State of Ceará, Brazil PT EN ES FR
The WWP’s fourth case study details the challenges involved in and lessons learned from implementing the Rural Productive Activities Oriented Cash Transfer in the state of Ceará, in northeastern Brazil. The program was spearheaded by the Technical Assistance and Rural Extension Company (EMATERCE) of Ceará, which adapted its structure to serve 20,000 families living in extreme poverty. The Oriented Cash Transfer incentivizes small rural farmers to improve their animal husbandry and agricultural production practices by offering non-refundable resource transfers and technical assistance and rural extension (ATER) services.
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Gathering data from different sources, this infographic summarizes the functioning of the Brazilian social protection system. It’s an excellent introduction to understand the actors involved and the country’s main social programs. The material is divided into:
1) Introduction to Brazil
2) What is Social Security in Brazil
3) Interfederative pact in the management of social programs – The case of Bolsa Familia
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Food Security
History of the Brazilian PAA PT EN ES FR
The fourth publication of the WWP series on the Food Purchase Program (PAA) narrates the project’s chronological path, passing through the legislations and innovations that accompanied its development until its present form.
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Food Security
PAA: institutional arrangement and stakeholders involved PT EN ES FR
The third publication in the WWP series on the Food Purchase Program (PAA) explains the project’s institutional articulation, which maintains the formulation and drafting of guidelines centralized in the federal government, but decentralizes implementation at local level. It includes an organizational chart of the organisations involved in management.
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Food Security
The six modalities of the PAA PT EN ES FR
The second document in the Food Purchase Program (PAA) series is particularly relevant to policy makers for detailing the operation and the financial support of the program’s purchasing modalities, such as the beneficiaries targeting and the actions of the entities involved in each one.
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Food Security
Brazil’s PAA: what it is, goals, target audience and coverage PT EN ES FR
The first publication of the WWP series on the Food Purchase Program (PAA) serves as an introduction to the project, which has created ways to stimulate the practice of family farming through public procurement and to promote access to food for populations at risk of food insecurity. It also offers up to date data on the number of suppliers and consumers, program coverage and purchases volume.
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Urban Productive Inclusion
Professional training challenges: the Pronatec/BSM experience in Senador Canedo-GO PT EN ES FR
The WWP Series of Case Studies – which shows good productive inclusion practices – reaches its third issue and reveals the experience of the city of Senador Canedo, located in the metropolitan area of Goiânia, in the Brazilian state of Goiás. The municipality has made important progress with the participation of local policy makers in mobilizing target audiences, mediating the relationship with the labor market in order to define adequate professional training to meet local demand and assisting students in finding job opportunities. In addition, the Secretariats for Labor and Social Assistance have created a decisive task force to reduce desertion of low-income students.
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Urban Productive Inclusion
How to Strengthen Urban Microentrepreneurs: Bahia’s Vida Melhor Program PT EN ES FR
The first WWP Case Study – part of a series on successful productive inclusion initiatives in Brazil – features the Bahia State Government’s Better Life (Vida Melhor) Program, launched in 2011 with a focus on vulnerable citizens working informally (e.g. street vendors, trash pickers and craft artists), excluded from formal labor markets and often ignored by official aid mechanisms. Through an innovative approach, the program developed a specific strategy aimed at the needs of this target group: self-employed, low-income workers, whose main characteristic is not differentiating the work resources from the family’s expenses.
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Rural Productive Inclusion
The Sertão do São Francisco Territory (IRPAA) – Development of Rural Activities PT EN ES FR
The second WWP Case Study – part of a series on successful productive inclusion initiatives in Brazil – shows different approaches to provide food security, income and social inclusion to poor family farmers in the sertão (hinterland) of the São Francisco River, state of Bahia. The technical assistance and rural extension (TARE) initiatives for family production projects were developed by the Regional Institute for Appropriate Small Farming and Animal Husbandry (IRPAA) between 2013 and 2016. The outcomes have been successful thanks to the flexibility of the project terms and the collective and participatory methodology implemented by the IRPAA in the diagnosis and project design stages.
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Urban Productive Inclusion
Thousand Women (Mulheres Mil) Program in Federal District – DF (Productive Inclusion Reports Series) PT EN ES FR
This publication shows the implementation of the Thousand Women Program in Brazil’s Federal District, with the aim of expanding professional training to low-income women who fit the Brazilian Unified Registry (Cadastro Único) profile. This document is the first on the WWP Productive Inclusion Reports Series and describes the planning process and actions undertaken by state and city governments under the scope of Brazil Without Poverty Plan (BSM), created in 2011 to eradicate extreme poverty in the country.
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Urban Productive Inclusion
Pronatec Brazil Without Extreme Poverty, Manaus – AM (Productive Inclusion Reports Series) PT EN ES FR
Learn about the implementation since 2012 of the National Program for Access to Technical Education and Employment (Pronatec) in Manaus, Amazonas, and the strategies carried out to mobilize the low-income population into enrolling in the courses offered. This is the second document on the WWP Productive Inclusion Reports Series and describes the planning process and actions undertaken by state and city governments under the scope of Brazil Without Poverty Plan (BSM), created in 2011 to eradicate extreme poverty in the country.
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Urban Productive Inclusion
Pronatec Brazil Without Extreme Poverty, Salvador – BA (Productive Inclusion Reports Series) PT EN ES FR
Learn about the implementation since 2012 of the National Program for Access to Technical Education and Employment (Pronatec) in Salvador, Bahia. This text is the third on the WWP Productive Inclusion Reports Series and describes the planning process and actions undertaken by state and local governments under the scope of Brazil Without Poverty Plan (BSM), created in 2011 to eradicate extreme poverty in the country.
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Urban Productive Inclusion
The Solidarity Economy, Vitória – ES (Productive Inclusion Reports Series) PT EN ES FR
This report recounts the experience of NGO Ateliê das ideias (Workshop of ideas) and Banco Bem (Bank Well), in Vitória, state of Espírito Santo. This bank has become a national reference for community institutions aimed at fostering development and its relevance has been recognized by the Brazilian Central Bank. This is the fourth case in the WWP Series of Productive Inclusion Reports, which describes the planning process and actions undertaken by state and city governments under the scope of the Brazil Without Poverty Plan (BSM), created in 2011 to eradicate extreme poverty in the country.
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Monitoring and Evaluation
From Cecad to the Social Tariff for Energy in the Santa Marta Community, Rio de Janeiro/RJ PT EN ES FR
The Cecad tool (Consultation, Selection and Extraction of the Unified Registry Information) allows access to data from the Unified Registry through aggregated and individualized information for managers and other data systems. It is today used by several Brazilian social programs. The text describes the construction process of the application and shows how the Social Tariff for Energy uses Cecad to grant discount on electricity bills for low-income beneficiaries, such as the residents of the Santa Marta Community in Rio de Janeiro.
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Monitoring and Evaluation
The National Survey on the Homeless Population PT EN ES FR
The National Survey on the Homeless Population was a pioneer initiative in Brazil by mapping the socioeconomic profile of this group between 2007 and 2008. This publication details the challenges for the design of the research, which required the development of specific strategies and methodologies. The last part of the report highlights how the survey has contributed to the formulation of public policies adapted to the reality experienced by homeless people.
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Cash Transfer
Bolsa Familia Interfederative Coordination Instruments: the IGD PT EN ES FR
This text explains how the Decentralized Management Index (IGD) – the main instrument for Bolsa Família interfederative coordination – works. The IGD is an indicator of the quality of decentralized management of Bolsa Família and the Unified Registry. Based on it, the federal government transfers funds to states and municipalities. The higher the IGD, the greater will also be the value of the funds transferred. The document presents the creation of the IGD, its strategic importance, how the funds can be spent, etc.
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