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    This document summarizes Brazil's Brasil Sem Miséria (Brazil Without Extreme Poverty) plan, which aims to eradicate extreme poverty in Brazil by 2014 by raising incomes, expanding access to services, and increasing job and income opportunities for the extremely poor population. It faces challenges in monitoring the extremely poor, balancing services and benefits, and improving partnerships with states. However, it represents an improved approach over previous policies by focusing more narrowly on the extremely poor and improving management.

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    This document summarizes Brazil's Brasil Sem Miséria (Brazil Without Extreme Poverty) plan, which aims to eradicate extreme poverty in Brazil by 2014 by raising incomes, expanding access to services, and increasing job and income opportunities for the extremely poor population. It faces challenges in monitoring the extremely poor, balancing services and benefits, and improving partnerships with states. However, it represents an improved approach over previous policies by focusing more narrowly on the extremely poor and improving management.

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    This document summarizes Brazil's Brasil Sem Miséria (Brazil Without Extreme Poverty) plan, which aims to eradicate extreme poverty in Brazil by 2014 by raising incomes, expanding access to services, and increasing job and income opportunities for the extremely poor population. It faces challenges in monitoring the extremely poor, balancing services and benefits, and improving partnerships with states. However, it represents an improved approach over previous policies by focusing more narrowly on the extremely poor and improving management.

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    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC - IG)

    Poverty Practice, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP


    SBS, Quadra 1, Bloco J, Ed. BNDES, 13 andar
    70076-900 Brasilia, DF - Brazil
    The views expressed in this page are the authors and not
    necessarily those of the United Nations Development
    Programme or the Government of Brazil.
    E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.ipc-undp.org
    Telephone: +55 61 2105 5000
    The International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth is jointly supported
    by the Poverty Practice, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP
    and the Government of Brazil.
    August, 2013
    No. 214
    New Strategy for Poverty Eradication in Brazil:
    the Emergence of the Brasil Sem Misria Plan
    by Rmulo Paes-Sousa, Director of the World Centre for Sustainable Development, RIO+ Centre
    Brazilian social protection programmes have had consistent effects in
    reducing poverty and inequality among their respective vulnerable groups:
    children, adolescents and pregnant and lactating women. In 2011, President-
    elect Rousseff launched Plano Brasil Sem Misria (PBSM Brazil without
    Extreme Poverty), a strategy to eradicate extreme poverty by 2014,
    targeting 15 million extremely poor Brazilians.
    This federal programme subscribes to the international trend of associating
    social protection with employment and income generation policies. In doing so,
    it brings together the concepts of social protection and social promotion.
    Thus, PBSM has three main commitments:
    to raise the per capita household income of the target population;
    to expand access to public goods and services; and
    to provide access to job and income opportunities through
    productive inclusion initiatives.
    The plan seeks to hone skills and expand opportunities for people living in
    extreme poverty, by improving cash transfer policies such as the Programa
    Bolsa Famlia (PBF Family Allowance Programme), increasing access to
    social protection services and improving their quality, and implementing
    productive inclusion initiatives aimed at different vulnerable groups such
    as informal urban workers, family farmers, collectors of recyclable material,
    homeless people, traditional communities and indigenous peoples.
    But the programme has faced continuous challenges. For one, monitoring of
    the extremely poor population depends on the development of a measurement
    methodology that reconciles data from the 2010 Demographic Census with
    the new integrated household search, currently being implemented by
    Brazils statistics institute, IBGE, an exercise that entails a high degree
    of complexity in designing an appropriate methodology.
    Also, the main budgetary challenge for PBSM is to strike a better balance
    between the services offered and the benefits transferred. In general, the
    social protection model that the PBSM is a (visible) part of repeats the same
    type of asymmetric intervention in favour of benefits as the models
    that preceded it.
    Although the relationship with the state programmes is the greatest
    breakthrough in the design of the plans institutional architecture behind
    social protection policies, the effectiveness of partnerships forged
    with the states requires that legal instruments be improved.
    Despite the challenges, however, PBSM represents an added approach
    to the social protection policies enacted by the previous administration.
    Like the Estratgia Fome Zero (Zero Hunger Strategy), PBSM advocates a
    multidimensional and focused approach, funded primarily by the federal
    government, with the aim of reducing poverty.
    Programmes within the PBSM and their Managing Federal Institutions,
    According to Thematic Axes and Areas of Activity
    However, the programme adjusted its focus towards the extremely
    poor population and shifted its management model towards a
    more effective configuration.
    The plan seems to indicate that, once full benefit coverage is achieved and a
    network of services is created to foster social protection and promotion and
    to modify the contents of the programmes in these sectors to make them
    accessible to extremely poor people, strategic interventions would then be
    strengthened to combat extreme poverty. The centre of public intervention
    focuses on increasing the social protection and promotion of children of less
    than six years of age, to encourage changes in the labour market and to increase
    the working capabilities of extremely poor workers in rural and urban areas.
    Therefore, the plan seeks to go beyond its primary goal of eradicating
    poverty by 2014. PBSM seeks to dialogue with the immediate future,
    in which extreme income poverty and extreme absolutely poverty
    will be a thing of the past. It coordinates the different dimensions
    of well-being by incrementally constructing a sustainable
    foundation based on social right for all Brazilians.
    References:
    Paes-Sousa, R. (2013). Plano Brasil Sem Misria: Incremento e mudana na poltica de proteo e
    promoo social no Brasil. IPC-IG Working Paper, No 113. Braslia, International Policy Centre for
    Inclusive Growth.
    Paes-Sousa, R., F. Regalia and M. Stampini (2013). Conditions for success in implementing CCT
    programs: Lessons for Asia from Latin America and the Caribbean, IDB Policy Brief, No. 192.
    Washington DC, Inter-American Development Bank.
    IncomeGuarantee
    BrasilCarinhoso,MDS
    BolsaFamlia,MDS

    ProductiveInclusion
    RuralProductiveInclusion
    PAA,MDS/MDA
    TechnicalAssistance,MDA
    Supportandseeds,MDA
    ProgramaguaparaTodos(Waterfor
    EveryoneProgramme),MIR/MDS
    ProgramaBolsaVerde,MMA

    UrbanProductiveInclusion
    MulheresMil,MEC
    Pronatec,MEC
    ProgramaCrescer,CEF,BB,BNBandBasa
    NationalProductiveMicrocreditProgramme
    (ProgramaNacionalMicrocrditoProdutivo
    OrientadoPNMPO),MTE
    AccesstoServices
    Education
    MaisEducao,MEC

    Health
    PrimaryHealthcareUnits(Unidades
    BsicasdeSadeUBS),MS
    SadedaFamlia(FamilyHealth),MS
    LowIncomePharmacies,MS
    SadenaEscola(SchoolHealth),MS

    SocialAssistance
    SocialAssistanceReferenceCentre
    (CRAS),MDS
    SpecialisedSocialAssistance
    ReferenceCentre(Creas),MDS

    FoodSecurity
    FoodBank,MDS
    CommunityKitchens,MDS

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