Bolsa Familia in Brazil aims to alleviate poverty through cash transfers and break the intergenerational cycle of poverty through human development. It differs from other conditional cash transfer programs in focusing on rapid scaling up through a single registry and mean testing rather than pilots. Complementary programs under Brazil's plan to eliminate extreme poverty include existing programs that beneficiaries get preferential access to as well as new programs tailored to beneficiaries and implemented by the agency managing the conditional cash transfers. The single registry coordinates efforts by containing data on 78 million low-income Brazilians and is used for targeting programs. The productive inclusion component provides both urban assistance like skills training and job placement, and rural assistance like technical assistance, improved seeds, and production grants.
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Bolsa Familia in Brazil - Productive Inclusion and Poverty Reduction
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Productive Inclusion in Brazil –
Bolsa Familia and the Brazil
without extreme Poverty Plan
1st Kenyan Social Protection Conference Week
28th Jan 2015
Fabio Veras Soares – IPC-IG
2. Bolsa Familia in Brazil
Objectives of Bolsa Familia as a CCT programme:
Poverty alleviation (cash transfer) and break intergenerational cycle of
poverty (human development)
But it differed from many CCTs in the LAC region
Origins in municipal level experiences in the middle 1990’s
Dissemination of Federal CTs in the early 2000’s
Establishment of the Single Registry (2001)
Merge of CCT/CTs programmes under Bolsa Familia (October 2003)
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3. Bolsa Familia in Brazil some key features
Rapid scaling up (no pilots)
Mean testing (targeting)
Adjustments were made as the programme expanded:
Financial incentives for municipalities and later states (IGD)
Monitoring of conditionalities – links with social assistance
Improvements of the quality of the Single Registry (v.7)
Integration into the Social Protection Framework:
Its role in the Hunger Zero strategy
Its role as one of the income security components of Brazil without extreme
poverty (Brasil sem Miseria) programme.
Role of complementary programmes.
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8. BSM coordination: role of the single registry
Single registry is a census of the Brazilian low income population (1/2 minimum
wage per capita). About 78 million people (36% of the population)
The registry contains the basic person and household identification and profile
data, grouped in 6 basic sets of data:
individual identification
family identification
household characteristics
schooling information
work
income information
There are other supplementary data collection such as household expenditures,
participation in social programmes, traditional communities’ characteristics
(quilombola and indigenous population) and vulnerable groups (homeless, child
labor), smallholder farmers.
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9. BSM coordination: role of the single registry
Single registry is a census of the Brazilian low income population (1/2 minimum
wage per capita). About 78 million people (36% of the population)
The registry contains the basic person and household identification and profile
data, grouped in 6 basic sets of data.
individual identification
family identification
household characteristics
schooling information
work
income information
INFORMATION IS VALID FOR 2 YEARS
There are other supplementary data collection such as household expenditures,
participation in social programmes, traditional communities’ characteristics
(quilombola and indigenous population) and vulnerable groups (homeless, child
labor), smallholder farmers. 8
11. BSM coordination: role of the single registry
Poverty Map
(census data)
Fostering capabilities and
opportunities
Fostering capabilities and
opportunities
Objective:
To incrase family per capita income and
to improve living conditions and well‐being of low income families
Objective:
To incrase family per capita income and
to improve living conditions and well‐being of low income families
Income
guarantee
Income
guarantee
Productive Inclusion:
urban and rural strategies
Productive Inclusion:
urban and rural strategies
Access to
public services
Access to
public services
Single
Registry
Active
Search
12. BSM Productive Inclusion component
URBAN
Productive
Inclusion
RURAL
• Rural extension and technical
assistance
• Access to inputs (improved
seeds)
• Production grants
Improved production
Employment and income
generation
• Skill building/training
• job placement
• Solidarity economy
• Microcredit
• Microentrepreneurship (MEI)
13. BSM: productive inclusion component
Improved seeds Investment grant
Improved production
Access to Markets (PAA and PNAE) Self-consumption
Water for All
Goal: increase productive capacity
:Case Management: extension services
Electricity for all
Green grant
Source: SESEP/MDS
14. BSM challenges: rural productive inclusion
Merging information from the single registry and database on smallholder
farmers (DAP) at the Federal level
Capacity and adequacy of extension services
Identification of the families at the local level – coordination with active
search
Approval of the joint work plan to have access to the investment grants
Worst drought in 50 years (adaptation of extension services)
Lack of rigorous impact evaluation (staggered entry was ideal setting –
missed opportunity).
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15. BSM achievements: rural productive inclusion
Possibility to use the infrastructure as a disaster risk management tool:
Drought grant – single registry and payment system.
Gendered impacts – agricultural interventions become gender-sensitive.
Women participation in the PAA increased from 26% in 2011 to 36% in
2014.
PAA became more accessible to poor smallholder farmers: in 2010 – only
32% of the PAA suppliers were in the Single Registry in 2013 this figure
increased to 50%.
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