Publications

The document shows the results and impacts of the education conditionalities of the Bolsa Família Program in recent years. Evidence suggests that the Program leads to reduced grade repetition of beneficiary students. They also have higher pass rates in the final years of primary education as well as at the high school level. The results suggest that a change has occurred in the course of these students’ school careers, thus signaling a consequent reduction of educational inequality in Brazil.

Abstract of the first WWP webinar – “Unified Registry for Social Programs – The Brazilian Experience”. The virtual discussion was held on September 3 in partnership with the Organization of American States and the Inter-American Social Protection Network (IASPN). Joana Mostafa, Director of Cadastro Único at Brazil’s Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger, and Margaret Grosh, Acting Practice Manager for Social Protection and Labor for the Latin America and Caribbean Region at the World Bank, presented Brazil’s experience with the implementation of a unified registry for social programs. For further information on the webinar, please click here.

In order to clarify some of the technical terms mentioned in our material on Bolsa Família Conditionalities, the WWP team has prepared a glossary. It is an objective way to clarify the meaning of terms like “CREAS”, “Sibec”, “Unified Registry” and “CAIXA”, among others.

The management of the Bolsa Família Program conditionalities is done through digital online systems (the “Conditionalities System”, “Sistema Presença” and the “Bolsa Família Program Health Management System”) that allow municipalities to access information about beneficiaries whose conditionalities must be monitored, and record health and school attendance information of beneficiaries.

Conditionality management actions require a close relation among policies from different fields – social assistance, education and health – and among government institutions. This text clarifies how the responsibilities and powers assigned to the entities working with conditionalities management are essential to monitoring health and school attendance of the Bolsa Família Program beneficiaries.

Over the years, the initial concept of the Bolsa Família Program conditionalities was adapted to the characteristics of Brazilian society. This timeline shows the improvement on mechanisms to enhance the access of poor families to education and health services, as well as the social protection net.

This text introduces the concept of the Bolsa Família Program conditionalities and highlights the importance of health, education and social assistance services in managing them.

The processes of managing conditionalities are organized into different stages. It begins by generating a database of children, adolescents and women whose conditionalities will be monitored and ending with the identification of the families who have failed to fulfil them. All processes depend on online systems and the attention of stakeholders working in education, health and social assistance at the federal, state and municipal levels.

This short and objective text seeks to provide an overview of the Unified Registry, to present its main characteristics and to describe the development of important aspects of its management.

This 20-page file presents a comprehensive overview of the most important topics related to the Unified Registry for Social Programs (CadÚnico), containing executive summary, implementation history, actors involved, programs, beneficiaries, legislation, among others. The Unified Registry is the tool for the identification and socioeconomic characterization of low-income families that can be used for social programs and policies in the selection of their beneficiaries and for mapping of needs and vulnerabilities.

This publication presents the responsibilities of the main actors who manage the Unified Registry in Brazil: the Federal Government, the Federal Savings Bank (Caixa Econômica Federal), the State and Municipal governments. This document also highlights Brazil´s context of federative coordination, which serves as a background for understanding the roles of each body involved in managing the Unified Registry.

This text describes the tools and the four stages involved in the registration process that enable the Unified Registry to meet its main goal: to identify and map the poorest and most vulnerable segment of the Brazilian population.

This two-page fact sheet quickly describes the objectives, target audience and coverage of the Unified Registry for Social Programs (CadÚnico), among other topics. The Unified Registry is the key instrument for the identification and socioeconomic characterization of low income families in Brazil, which can be used by social policies and programs to select beneficiaries and map needs and vulnerabilities.

This short and objective text explains the context within which the Unified Registry was created in 2001 and its evolution over the years. The Unified Registry contains at present over 23 million low-income families in its database, amounting to around 40% of Brazil´s population.

The report highlights the substantial progress made by Brazil over the last decade in terms of poverty reduction and other types of inequality (income, education, health, access to basic services, etc.).

Twenty two million people have overcome extreme poverty from income perspective since the Brazil Without Extreme Poverty Plan (Plano Brasil Sem Miséria, BSM) was launched on June 2011. The main results achieved in the last three years of the Plan are presented in this publication. The BSM’s goal was to raise income and welfare conditions of extremely poor people through a set of actions that include cash transfer, access to public services (education, health, welfare, sanitation and electricity), and productive inclusion. For this, new programs have been created and already existing initiatives were expanded in partnership with states, municipalities, public and private companies and civil society organizations.

This Working Paper completes the One Pager with the same name, both from the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG). It  summarizes general characteristics and history of Brazil’s Unified Registry (Cadastro Único). Its main difference from most targeted registries around the world is that income is declared by families themselves. It also investigates the role of the national public bank, Caixa Econômica Federal, in developing and maintaining Unified Registry’s systems and databases.

This One Pager from the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) summarizes the general characteristics and history of Brazil’s Unified Registry (Cadastro Único). Its main difference from most social registries around the world is how income is declared: by families themselves. It also investigates the role of one national public bank, Caixa Econômica Federal, in developing and maintaining Unified Registry’s systems and databases.

This two-page fact sheet describes the goals, target audience, coverage and other topics of the Bolsa Familia Program (PBF). The PBF is a direct cash transfer program to Brazilian families in poverty and extreme poverty with conditionalities in the areas of health and education.