Bolsa Família Program
Brazil: Brief Overview
• Population: 184 million people
• Area: 8.5 million km²
• Federative country, with 27 states and
5,564 municipalities
• Poor population: 11.1 million families
(21% of the population)
• Extremely poor population: 4.2 million
families (8.2% of the population)
• Gini coefficient in 2005 = 0,566
Bolsa Família
Three articulated dimensions
Immediate relief from poverty, by means of direct income transfer to families
It contributes to break the intergenerational poverty cycle, by means of
conditionalities
Development of the potentiality of the families, by means of integration with
Complementary Programs
Bolsa Família Program
Conditioned
Income
Transfer
Created in 2003 as a Program:
• focused
• conditioned
• free use
• direct payment to the family,
preferably to the woman
Immediate relief of poverty (income)
Break the intergenerational cycle of poverty (conditionalities)
Family development (complementary actions)
Main features of the Program
•
Assistance to the family and not to its members separately
•
Conditionalities to be fulfilled by the families and the government in the areas of
health, education and social assistance
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Direct payment to the family, without any intermediaries
•
Benefit paid preferably to the woman
•
Autonomy of the family to use the financial resource
•
Assistance to the poor and to the extremely poor families
• Families remain in the program while their income is lower than the eligibility
criterion: there is no deadline for permanence in the program
• Shared management among government levels
• Participation of the society
• National coverage, based on an estimate of poor families
Bolsa Família Program Coverage
November 2003
July 2007
3.6 million of benefits paid in November 2003
11.1 million of benefits paid
Estimate of Poor Families in 2003 – 11.2 million
Estimate of Poor Families in 2006 – 11.1 million
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Month: R$ 710 million - (US$ 370 million)
Year: R$ 9.0 billion - (US$ 4.7 billion)
Fiscal Impact: 0,3% GDP
Management cost: 5%
Eligibility Criteria
• Families with monthly per capita income between R$
60,01 and R$ 120,00, with children among 0 and 17
years old
• Families with monthly per capita income of up to R$
60,00, regardless of the family composition
Types of financial benefits
Modality
Description
Value equal to R$ 62,00, paid exclusively to
Basic Benefit
the families with monthly per capita income of
up to R$ 60,00.
Variable Benefit (BV)
Variable
(BVJ)
Youth
Benefit
Value equal to R$ 20,00, paid to the families
with children and adolescents of up to 15 years
old.
Each family can receive up to 3 benefits of this
kind, totaling R$ 60,00.
Value equal to R$ 30,00, paid to the families
with young members aged 16-17 years old.
Each family can receive up to 2 benefits of this
kind, totaling R$ 60,00.
Monthly per
capita income
From R$ 60,00
to R$ 120,00
Family composition with
members aged:
Benefit value
0 to 15 years
old
16 and 17
years old
1 member
-
U$ 12,30
2 members
-
U$ 24,60
3 or + members
-
No occurrence
1 member
Family composition with
members aged:
Monthly per
capita income
Benefit value
0 to 15 years
old
16 and 17
years old
1 member
1 member
U$ 30,69
2 members
1 member
U$ 42,97
U$ 36,90
3 or + members
1 member
U$ 55,24
-
U$ 38,06
No occurrence
1 member
U$ 56,47
-
U$ 50,33
1 member
-
U$ 62,61
2 members
1 member
U$ 81,03
U$ 74,89
3 or + members
1 member
U$ 93,30
From R$ 60,00
to R$ 120,00
1 member
Up to R$ 60,00
2 members
3 or + members
Monthly per capita
income
From R$ 60,00 to R$
120,00
U$ 68,75
Up to R$ 60,00
Family composition with members aged:
Benefit value
0 to 15 years old
16 and 17 years old
1 member
2 or + members
U$ 49,10
2 members
2 or + members
U$ 61,38
3 or + members
2 or + members
U$ 73,66
No occurrence
2 or + members
U$ 74,89
2 or + members
1 member
U$ 87,17
Up to R$ 60,00
2 members
2 or + members
U$ 99,44
3 or + members
2 or + members
U$ 111,72
Conditionalities
• Education: school enrolment and minimum attendance of 85% for children and
adolescents aged 6-15 years old and 75% for adolescents aged 16 and 17 years
old
• Health: fulfillment of the vaccination calendar and the growth and development
for children under 7 years old; prenatal care for pregnant women and monitoring
of the lactating women
Main implementation strategies
• Formalization of the shared management with states and municipalities
• Improvement of the Single Registry and the benefit management: qualification of
the registry data and improvement of the mechanisms for control and focalization
• Utilization of the Single Registry by other government policies
• Management of conditionalities: monitoring of the conditionalities in integration with
the Ministries of Health and Education
• Social control and inspection
• Integration with other government policies/actions for the development of the family
capacity: complementary actions
• Creation of financial incentives for the decentralized management
Shared Management
Common responsibility – Art. 23 of the Federal Constitution
Adhesion: Establishment of responsibilities and formalization of the
relationship
Appointment of the Municipal Manager and the Instance for Social
Control
5560 municipalities with signed adhesion term
Support to the decentralized management – Construction of
indicators for quality of management – Decentralized Management
Index (IGD)
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Indicators taken into consideration:
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Quality of the Single Registry data
•
Registry update
•
Information on the education conditionalities
•
Information on the health conditionalities
•
Only the municipalities with IGD higher than 0,5 receive the resource
•
Possibilities of financial resource use
•
Management of conditionalities
•
Monitoring of beneficiary families
•
Registry of new families, data review and update
•
Implementation of complementary programs
Evolução do IGD
1,00
0,95
0,90
0,85
0,80
0,75
0,70
0,65
0,60
0,55
0,50
0,45
0,40
0,35
0,30
0,25
0,20
0,15
0,10
abr/06
jul/06
out/06
jan/07
abr/07
jul/07
out/07
Cost estimate: R$ 240 million in 2008
jan/08
abr/08
Support to the decentralized management – Other
strategies
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Training and qualification
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Information systems
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Improvement in the Single Registry
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System for Management of Benefits – Sibec
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System of Conditionalities – Sicon (still being developed)
Information to the managers
•
Weekly bulletin
Complementary Actions
• Articulation among the Bolsa Família Program and other public policies
• Strategy for articulated and integrated intervention that allows the capacity
building of families or the fight against specific vulnerabilities
• Literacy courses and increase in the level of education of young
adults and adults
•
Professional qualification
• Access to energy (social tariff of electric energy and Luz para
Todos Program)
•
Provision of identification documents
•
Oriented micro-credit
•
Articulation with the National Housing Policy
Single Registry