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The Brazilian Social Protection Policies and
Experience
June, 9th, 2008
Dakar, Senegal
Brazil: some figures
• Population 2007: 191 millions
inhabitants
• Size: 8.5 millions km²
• GDP 2007 – US$ 1 trillion
• Per Capita GDP 2007– US$ 5,640
• Federal republic with 26 States, and
5,564 municipalities and 1 Federal
District
• Poor population - 2006: 25%
• Extremely poor population: 9.4%
• Gini Coefficient 2006 = 0.562
• Human Development Index, 2004 = 0.79
Currency rate R$1,00 = USS$ 1.66
Integrated Programmes
Access to food
Bolsa Família
School food (PNAE)
Cisterns
Popular Restaurants
Urban Agriculture / Community Gardens
Food banks
Food to specific population groups
Healthy food / Health habits promotion
Vitamin A and iron distribution
Food and nutrition for indigenous groups
Food and nutritional education
SISVAN
Worker feeding (PAT)
Basic Food Basket
Income Generation
Social and professional qualification
Solidary Economy and Productive Inclusion
CONSADs
Poor communities’ productive organization
(PRODUZIR)
Ragpickers cooperatives development
Oriented productive micro credit
Strengthening the Family Agriculture
PRONAF
Family Agriculture Insurance
Harvest Insurance
Family Agriculture’s Food Acquisition Programme (PAA)
ZERO HUNGER
Articulation, mobilization and social
control
Family Home (CRAS/PAIF)
Citizenship education and social mobilization
Public agents training
Help and donations mobilization
Alliances with enterprises and entities
Social control councils
MDS Actions
SENARC
SESAN
SNAS
National Secretariat
of Citizenship
Income
National Secretariat of
Food and Nutritional
Security
National Secretariat of
Social Assistance
•Bolsa Família
•Cadastro Único
•Programa de Aquisição de
Alimentos – PAA
•Cisternas
•CONSADs
•Restaurantes Populares
•Bancos de Alimentos
•Cozinhas Comunitárias
•Distribuição de Cestas de Alimentos
•Agricultura Urbana
•Educação Alimentar e Nutricional
•Cartilhas
•Apoio a Comunidades Quilombolas
•Carteira Indígena
•BPC/LOAS/RMV : Idosos e PCD
•Programa de Atenção Integral à Família –
PAIF
•Centro de Referência de Assistência Social
– CRAS
•Centro de Referência Especializado de
Assistência Social – CREAS
•Serviços Continuados para o atendimento
à criança, à família, à pessoa idosa
•Programa de Erradicação do Trabalho
Infantil - PETI
•Projeto Agente Jovem de Desenvolvimento
Social e Humano
•Programa Sentinela
Single Registry
•Contains socio-economic data from families with per capita income of up to ½
minimum wage;
•Allows the identification of household needs and caracteristics and also of
individuals;
•Used to select beneficiaries of several social programmes;
• Constant update. Information collected is valid for two years.
CadÚnico – Single Registry
CadÚnico Data
Family Data
Personal Data
 Address
 Identification
 Household
 Documents
Characteristic
 Schooling
 Quantity of
 Professional Life
Vulnerable
 Family Relations
Members
 Participation in
Targeted Programs
15.6 MM registered
14.1 MM self reported poor
60.7 MM registered
56.5 MM self reported poor
Single Registry: Highlights
•Data collection and entry is decentralized to the municipalities;
• Database consolidation and management is centralized;
• Gender equality: Women (mothers) are preferentially indicated as
potential receiver of the benefit;
•Increasing effort to include the most vulnerable categories (indigenous
populations, street dwellers etc.).
Bolsa Familia Program
Income
Transfer
 focused
 conditioned
 free use of cash
Objectives
Immediate poverty relief (income)
Rupture of the poverty intergenerational cycle (Conditionalities)
Family development (complementary actions)
Benefits
• Basic Benefit: US$ 34.87
Extremely
poor
Families:
monthly per capita income of
US$ 36,14 or less
1R$ = US$ 1,66
• Variable Benefit: US$10.82 per children
under 15 years old up to the limit of 3 benefits
(US$ 32.46).
• Variable Benefit for the Young (16-17 y.o.):
US$18.03 per children up to the limit of 2
benefits (US$36.06).
Poor Families: monthly per
capita income between US$
36,14 and US$ 72,28
•Variable Benefit: up to 3 members
•Variable Benefit for the Young: up to 2
members
• With this benefits menu, income transfers range from US$ 10.82 to US$ 99.40.
•BFP makes payments via the banking system, through CAIXA, which credits
benefits payments to beneficiaries’ electronic benefit cards (EBC) on monthly
basis according payroll.
Conditionalities: Access to Rights
Education
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Health
School attendance for all family´s
children aged 6-15 years old (85%
daily attendance) and 16-17 years old
(75% d.a.)
• Completion of vaccines according
recommended schedule, and growth
monitoring for children ages 0-7 years old.
• Pre- and pos-natal checkup for pregnant
women
•The Ministries of Health and Education are responsible for promoting the
training of state and municipal managers in monitoring human capital
conditionalities. They also are responsible for consolidating conditionality
compliance information and reporting this to MDS.
Bolsa Família’s Coverage
November 2003
December 2007
3.6 milion benefits paid as of november 2003
11.1 milions benefits paid
Estimated number of Poor Families – 11.2 million (2003)
Estimated number of Poor Families – 11,1 milhões (2006l)
Até 25%
Mais de 25% Até 50%
Mais de 50% Até 75%
Mais de 75%
Fonte: MDS/IBGE/IPEA
2007 Expenditure : R$ 9 bilhões - (US$ 5 billions)
2008 Budget: US$ 6.253 billions)
Impact on Budget: 0.35% GDP
Management Costs: 5%
Income inequality evolution
Gini index
Indice de GINI - Desigualdade de Renda per capita - Brasil
0,6068
0,5994
0,6004
0,6019
0,5937
0,6001
0,5886
0,5957
0,5832
0,5717
0,5829
0,5680 0,5620
1992 1993
1995
1996 1997
Source: CPS/BRE/FGV using HH Survey (Pnad/IBGE)
1998
1999 2001
2002 2003
2004
2005 2006
Bolsa Família is responsible for 21% of
inequality reduction 2003-2005
National Secretariat for Food and Nutrition Security ($ 395 millions)
• Food Acquisition Program (PAA): Its objective is to guarantee the access to foods in
necessary amount, with quality and regularity to the populations in situation of food and
nutritional insecurity and to promote the social inclusion by strengthening family agriculture.
($ 277 millions)
•Cisterns: viable alternative of water supply for human consumption in the semi-arid.
Appropriate technology, the use is easy, household use, low cost of maintenance, simple
maintenance, high durability. ($ 46 millions)
•Popular Restaurants: They cook and sell healthy meals, offered with subsidized and
accessible prices in great urban centers. ($ 18 millions)
• Food Banks: Private donation of food. The food is selected, packed and distributed to
social assistance entities. ($ 3,5 millions)
•Community Kitchens: They are part of a strategy to offer balanced meals, produced with
quality and compatible with the requirements for a healthy meal, they also promote the
social inclusion. ($ 3 millions)
Food Acquisition Program (PAA)
•Income from commercialization of PAA beneficiaries’ rural production is almost three
times higher than the non-beneficiaries’.
•Prices paid by PAA are, among different products, higher than those offered in
other forms of commercialization.
•Strengthening of Women:
•Access to credit
•Planning that can be made from the budget
•Improvement of self-esteem
•Reduction in the dependence with partners
•Reduction in the domestic violence
Continuous Cash Benefit
• Social Pension targeting the elderly (over 65) and
disabled;
• Managed with the Ministry of Social Security;
• Vulnerable elderly with income of less than ¼
minimum wage;
• Benefit: 1 minimum wage.
Summary
• Group of actions which target the same group –
creating synergy;
• Further integrate policies and programmes;
• Increasing effort to include other vulnerable groups;
• Effort to link with programmes from Ministry of
Labor.
Thank You !
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