Publications

One of the reasons for the results of the “Brazil Without Extreme Poverty” Plan stems from the involvement of all the entities of the Federation in the fight against extreme poverty. The states created their own plans to complement the Bolsa Família Program. Meanwhile, the municipalities played an important role in the management of the Unified Registry and the Bolsa Família, as well as providing social assistance and health and education services. Joint efforts by all the Federative entities were essential for overcoming extreme poverty.

This three page fact sheet summarizes the Child Labor Eradication Program (PETI), with objectives, target audience, coverage, etc. The PETI involves cash transfers, social work with families, and the provision of socio-educational services for children and adolescents in a child labor situation.

This sheet presents a comprehensive view on the Continuous Welfare Benefit for the Elderly and Disabled (BPC), with history, management and execution, selection criteria, among other topics. The BPC is a non-contributory benefit targeted at people aged 65 or over, and persons of any age with disabilities who can prove that they have no means of supporting themselves.

For a quick two-page overview on the Continuous Welfare Benefit for the Elderly and Disabled (BPC), this fact sheet describes goals, target audience, coverage and other topics. The BPC is a non-contributory benefit targeted at people aged 65 or over, and persons of any age with disabilities who can prove that they have no means of supporting themselves.

The document shows how Latin America and Caribbean countries, after a decade of poverty reduction, should overcome expectations of lower growth and monetary tightening to maintain and improve their social protection systems, which costs will increase. The first part retraces these nations’ routes to reduce income inequality; the second highlights the need to protect the most vulnerable population by enumerating successful practices in the region focused in the labor market and the fiscal health of their social welfare systems.

This sheet presents a comprehensive overview of the Food Acquisition Program (PAA), including project history, management and execution, selection criteria and purchasing methods, among other topics.

This fact sheet briefly describes goals, target audience and coverage of the Food Purchase Program (PAA), created in 2003 to promote access to food and encourage family farming.

Many studies have cast light on the dynamic character of the poverty phenomenon — poverty cycles propagate themselves, and individuals as well as households both enter and exit a situation of deprivation. However, most antipoverty policies are based on indicators constructed with cross-sectional data, which simply reflect the situation of individuals at a particular moment. If an antipoverty policy aims to ensure minimum income and welfare for a family, static measures may underestimate the poverty rate and exclude potential beneficiaries that have frequent deprivation cycles with intervals of non-poverty in between.

In its 32th number, IPC-IG’s Policy in Focus magazine addresses labor market challenges within social protection systems. Despite significant development gains in recent decades, developing countries still face considerable challenges in regards to the fight against poverty and hunger. Redistributive cash transfer programs have emerged as vital for the pursuit of poverty reduction and eradication; however, critics have expressed concerns that such social grants could lead to dependency among beneficiaries, dissuade them from seeking work, or reinforce traditional gender roles.

In recent years there has been great focus on coordinating and harmonising systems for social protection. This has led to growing interest in exploring ways to integrate data and better handle information management across multiple programmes. The most cited example of such integration is Brazil’s celebrated Cadastro Único (Single Registry, the term the article uses to describe such poverty databases), yet several other countries have been recently adopting innovative solutions and defining best practices that are still widely undocumented.

This One Pager from the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) summarizes the general characteristics of the Brazil without Extreme Poverty Plan (Brasil Sem Miséria, BSM), conceived to improve existing social programs and to create new ones in an orchestrated and multidimensional way that goes beyond income, in order to tackle the many manifestations of poverty and reach various groups in different regions and contexts.

Access the questions asked by participants during the Webinar Unified Registry for Social Programs: The Brazilian experience and answered by the WWP Team.

Over recent years, the Brazilian public sector has been structured to improve the management of social programs such as the Bolsa Família. In the Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger – since 2016 Ministry of Social and Agrarian Development – the Secretariat for Evaluation and Information Management (SAGI) is the key to the production of data that support the improved design and management of social policies and programs. This text describes how monitoring and evaluation is structured in Brazil, as well as the role of the SAGI in this process.

The publication describes the main monitoring concepts used in Brazil and explains the importance of monitoring to increase the efficiency and transparency of social programs. As an integral part of the structure of the Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger – since 2016 Ministry of Social and Agrarian Development – the Secretariat for Evaluation and Information Management (SAGI) conducts monitoring through the systematic collection and analysis of data on the implementation of social programs.

The publication describes the five steps undertaken by the Secretariat for Evaluation and Information Management to perform the monitoring of Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger programs (since 2016 titled Ministry of Social and Agrarian Development). It highlights the way in which social indicators are constructed and how these are used in panels and monitoring systems.

The Unified Registry’s Registration Form is the tool used to collect socioeconomic information of low-income families in Brazil. Throughout the Form you will have access to the main concepts used by the interviewer of the Registry during interviews (family composition, type of household, income, etc.)

This publication compiles data on the results and impacts of the health conditionalities of the Bolsa Família Program in recent years. The surveys indicate that 98% of the monitored children have their vaccination schedules up-to-date and 98% of pregnant women underwent antenatal check-ups. The prevalence of height-to-age deficit in Brazil declined by around 50%, from 2008 to 2012, whereas child mortality rates of children under 5 years old fell by 19% in municipalities surveyed between 2004 and 2009.

The conditionalities monitoring of the Bolsa Família Program provides periodic information on the access of beneficiary families to basic public services in education and health. This text addresses the results of health and education conditionalities based on a time series evidence. The Program currently monitors school attendance of 90% of PBF beneficiary students.