Publications

This publication shows the evolution of the Bolsa Família Decentralized Management Index (IGD), with major landmarks recorded in a timeline. Created in 2006, the IGD has been part of design reflection, re-adaptation and continuous improvement over the years. This allowed the federal government to give the necessary autonomy to states and municipalities for the implementation of the Bolsa Família Program and the Unified Registry.

In addition to the IGD, Bolsa Família has several management instruments and information systems as well as communication channels to disseminate information to states and municipalities. This paper presents the main management tools and forms of communication used today: the Bolsa Familia Program Management System (SIGPBF); the Bolsa Família Informa newsletter, the Ministry’s website and the Customer Relations Center.

The Good Municipal Practices Award for Labor Market Access recognized in 2015 nine successful social and economic inclusion experiences by Rio de Janeiro state municipalities, focusing on poor and extremely poor households. With WWP and Capital Foundation support, the award’s magazine – launched in March 2016 – reveals the strategies implemented by managers to overcome structural challenges and achieve important results in productive inclusion.

The text presents the development process – with difficulties and solutions – of the Unified Social Assistance System Census (SUAS Census). After its creation, many progress were achieved in Brazil’s Social Assistance regarding established indicators and planning processes to improve management and social control. A table summarizes the main lessons learned since 2007, when implementation began.

Access the questions asked by participants during the Webinar “Tools for Intersectoral Coordination – How to Integrate Social Policies in Conditional Cash Transfer Programs” and answered by the WWP Team.

In this document, the developing process of two tools for the production of maps: IDV – Household Identification Vulnerable and MOPS – Opportunities and Public Services Map. These tools have subsidized critical decisions in the actions of the Plan Brazil Without Extreme Poverty. With IDV and MOPS, social program managers can identify poverty pockets in the cities, as well as provide information to low-income families on integration opportunities in the labor market.

This paper describes the characteristics of the main drivers of the Brazil without Poverty Plan: the Bolsa Familia Program (BFP) and the Continuous Cash Benefit Program (BPC), both the responsibility of the Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger (MDS), which also coordinates the Plan.

This article presents the strategy of the Brazil Without Extreme Poverty Plan regarding social assistance, health and education services, as well as the Brasil Carinhoso program, which involves government actions in all three areas. The article also contains the results of the housing programs aimed at Brazil´s lowest-income families.

This article describes the urban productive inclusion strategy of the Brazil Without Extreme Poverty Plan. It offers new opportunities for educational and professional training courses to the most vulnerable segment of urban population. The goal is to improve their lives by helping them to join the labor market.

The high poverty incidence in Brazil’s rural areas requires specific strategies that take into account the social and economic diversity of these areas. The Brazil Without Extreme Poverty Plan systemically focuses on one or more actions of a rural productive inclusion package. This “package” is built on a tripod of basic infrastructure, production structuring and scale-up of market channels.

The paper looks at the three levels of monitoring involved in the Brazil without Extreme Poverty Plan: the monitoring macro results, actions results and family trajectories. The document also addresses three interrelated mechanisms for monitoring actions: situation rooms, budgetary identification and database cross-referencing. Finally, two monitoring tools are described: the state and municipal ‘Brazil Without Extreme Poverty Portals’.

The documents cover from the formulation of the “Brazil without Extreme Poverty” Plan to the establishment of its lines of action and the results achieved, through activities of intersectoral and federal coordination, as well as social participation and active searching. Social assistance, cash transfer, productive inclusion initiatives in rural and urban areas and access to water in semi-arid regions are also some of the subjects covered. The themes do not exhaustively correspond to the areas of operation of the Plan, however are an indication of the complexity of its multi-dimensional strategy.

For a quick overview on the “Brazil Without Extreme Poverty” Plan (BSM), this fact sheet describes the goals, the target audience and the coverage of the Plan created in 2011 to overcome extreme poverty in the country, amongst other topics.

Launched in 2011, the “Brazil Without Extreme Poverty” Plan, coordinated by the Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger – since 2016 Ministry of Social and Agrarian Development – is aimed at overcoming extreme poverty in Brazil. Structured multidimensionally around three activity areas, the Plan involves work by 22 ministries as well as by all the states and municipalities that jointly implement around 100 actions. This text describes the conditions that led to the creation of the Plan and highlights some of its main features.

This One Pager measures the federal government’s food purchases exclusively from family farmers through the Food Purchase Programme (PAA) and the National School Feeding Programme (PNAE), which are the most important food procurement programmes in Brazil with earmarked funds targeting family farmers and their organisations.

When the “Brazil Without Extreme Poverty” Plan was launched, the Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger – since 2016 Ministry of Social and Agrarian Development (MDSA) – needed to define an extreme poverty line as a suitable parameter for conducting an initial diagnosis of the country´s extremely poor population, as well for annually monitor the course of extreme poverty rate and to select target population which would be benefited by the Plan´s initiatives. This text explains how the extreme poverty line was defined and how it has been used to achieve results.

The Active Searching strategy is essential for locating, registering and including the most needy Brazilians in a series of public policies. This text describes the role of Active Searching and the Unified Registry in thee focalized inclusion process during the execution of the Brazil Without Extreme Poverty Plan.

The “Brazil Without Extreme Poverty” Plan called for intersectoral action by the State to address the multidimensional phenomenon of poverty in a comprehensive manner. This approach involved the participation of 22 ministries, as well as that of direct and indirect government agencies and entities, and the efforts of the private and third sectors. This text describes the Plan´s governance structure.