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Brazil has grown because

poverty has declined.

Just imagine what it will be like when we end extreme

poverty?

Ministry ofSocial Development and

Fight against Hunger



Brazil Without ExtrEmE povErty plan

Brazil faces the challenge of ending povertyOver the last years Brazil has

surprised the world by taking 28

million Brazilians out of poverty

and moving 36 million people to

middle class. But this work must

continue because there are still 16

million people living in extreme

poverty. For this, the government

has created the Brazil Without

Poverty plan, which enhances and

extends the best of the Brazilian

experience in the social area.

Coordinated by the Ministry

of Social Development and

Fight against Hunger, the plan

articulates and mobilizes the

efforts of the federal government,

states and municipalities around

hundreds of actions in urban

centers and in the countryside.

Its focuses on the 16 million

Brazilians whose family income,

when divided among its members,

is less than US$ 44 a month per

person. Of this total, 59% live in

the Northeast, 21% in the South

and Southeast and 20% in the

North and Midwest of Brazil.

In addition to its solidary and

human character, the plan

also aims to be a powerful new

lever for the development of

Brazil. After all, the process of

social ascent of the last eight

years was crucial to reduce

inequality, expand domestic

market, strengthen the economy

and accelerate the growth of the

country.

Now, by taking the challenge of

overcoming poverty, the federal

government has taken a new and

decisive step in order to extend

these achievements to

all Brazilians.

Poverty has different faces and

needs according to the region.

Reality in the rural environment

is different from that of urban

centers. Therefore, the Brazil

Without Extreme Poverty plan

will have national and regional

actions based on three main axes:

income, productive inclusion

and public services.

In the countryside, the main

objective is to increase farmers’

production. In the city, it is to

qualify manpower and identify

employment opportunities for the

poorest. Meanwhile, the plan will

ensure that poor people will have

access to water supply, electricity,

health, education and housing.

To achieve these goals, the

government drawing the most

complete map of poverty in Brazil.

And it’s also drawing a map of

opportunities to identify the most

appropriate and efficient means

to improve these people’s lives.

These tools will enable, for

example, the plan to identify

and register people who do

not receive the Bolsa Família

benefit (conditional cash transfer

program), whether for lack of

information or because they live

in places unreached by the State’s

action.

Mapa da Pobreza16,2 milhões

Elevação daRenda Per Capita

Aumento dasCondições de

Bem-Estar

Aumento dascapacidades e

oportunidades

Eixo Garantia de Renda

Eixo Inclusão Produtiva

Eixo Acesso aosServiços Públicos

Poverty Map16.2 million

Increase in per-capita income

Increase in well-being conditions

Income Guarantee Axis

Productive Inclusion Axis

Access to Public Services Axis

Increase ofcapabilities and

opportunities

Global actions, regional actions

Expansion of thE Bolsa família proGram

Brazil Without Extreme Poverty will create an effective set of employment opportunities and income for the improvement of the poorest lives. And the Bolsa Familia Program is of vital importance in this context.

For a start, the program will be expanded, including more than 800 thousand families entitled to receive the benefit, but for various reasons not receiving it yet. And the limit of family members receiving the variable benefit has been expanded from three to five children.

The change, which takes into account the fact that 40% of extremely poor people are under 14 years old, will include 1.3 million children and adolescents up to 15 years old at the Bolsa Família Program. These children will, thereafter, fulfill all the conditionalities of the program, such as school attendance and health care. Finally, the Bolsa Família Program card will have new functions: through it other benefits, such as credits for rural development and the Bolsa Verde, will be paid.

activE sEarch

The Plan Brazil Without

Extreme Poverty was

especially created to reach

where the poorest people are.

To this end, a new strategy

called “Active Search” was

developed. This strategy

is helping draw the most

complete map of poverty

in the country. The goal is

to include in the Unified

Registry families living

outside the social protection

and promotion network and

other actions of the public

power. Joint efforts and

search campaigns, cross

registration, involvement and

training of public managers

to support the extremely

poor populations will be

performed, coordinated by

the social assistance area.

In municipalities with low

coverage, an additional

effort will be made for

registration of specific

segments of the population.

Brazil Without Extreme poverty in the countryside

In rural areas, which concentrate

47% of the plan’s population, the

priority is to increase the farmer’s

production through guidance and

technical assistance, inputs and

water supply.

Now find out about some of the

key strategies of Brazil Without

Extreme Poverty in rural areas.

Technical Assistance

The poorest farmers will have

continued and individual

monitoring by teams of

professionals engaged

primarily in the region by

the federal government.

Each group of one thousand

families will be assisted by

one technician qualified

with a college degree and

ten mid-level technicians. A

partnership with Embrapa

(Brazilian Agricultural

Research Corporation) and

universities will introduce

technologies appropriate to

each family, thereby increasing

production.

Promotion and Seeds

Brazil Without Extreme

Poverty will support extremely

poor families in food

production and marketing of

production. Each family will

receive a US$ 1,502 grant at no

cost, payable in semiannual

installments over two years

to purchase inputs and

equipment. By 2014, 250,000

families will be assisted. The

plan will also contemplate

other complementary

development actions such as

the offer of Embrapa’s seeds

and Technologies appropriate

for each region.

The Water for All Program

The goal is to assist

750,000 families with the

construction of water-tanks

(cisterns) and collective

simplified systems. In

addition, thousands of families

will benefit from production-

oriented water systems.

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Food Purchase Program (PAA)

PAA is one of the most effective

programs in expanding the

market for small farmers.

Through this program the

federal government buys the

production and donates it to

charities or for stockpiling. With

Brazil Without Extreme Poverty,

PAA will be considerably

expanded. today it serves

66,000 families in extreme

poverty; by 2014, 255 thousand

families will be benefited.

Purchase of Production

Another activity planned

is the expansion of public

procurement for hospitals,

universities, prisons, daycare

centers and also to supply

the private network, such as

supermarkets and restaurants,

which will have the poorest

farmers as a supply alternative.

GrEEn Grant

One of the new

programs of Brazil Without

Poverty, Green Grant is the

quarterly payment of an aid

amounting to Us$ 188 for

the preservation of

environmental assets.

The poorest rural beneficiaries

of the Bolsa Família Program

will therefore have an

additional incentive to

work in the maintenance

and preservation of natural

resources found in forests,

extractive reserves and

in areas of sustainable

development. .

Brazil Without Extreme poverty in the cityIn urban areas, the main objective

of Brazil Without Extreme Poverty

will be to generate jobs and

income for the poorest people,

between 18 and 65 years old,

through vocational training

courses, employment mediation,

expansion of micro-credit

policies to stimulate popular and

solidarity economy and other

actions for social inclusion that

should benefit two million

people.

The lines of action include:

Map of Opportunities

The federal government,

along with states and

municipalities, will make a

survey about the number of

opportunities available in

the cities for the productive

inclusion of families identified

by the poverty map. Thus,

combining these two

instruments, Brazil Without

Extreme Poverty will promote

a more inclusive economic

growth, creating new job

opportunities and income.

Training of Manpower

The goal is to include Bolsa

Família beneficiaries in the

labor market through training

courses according to attuned

to the economic life of each

region. Technical schools, the

S-system and other networks

will be mobilized to be able to

offer more than 200 types of

free courses and certificates.

The student will receive

educational materials, lunch

and transportation.

Public Mediation of Labor

Mediation actions will be

performed considering the set

of opportunities pointed out by

public and private companies.

Beneficiaries of the Bolsa

Família Program and people

aged between 18 and 65 will be

the first to be selected.

Support for the

Organization of Recyclable

Material Pickers


Poverty will strongly support

the municipalities in the

implementation of selective

collection programs. Thus,

in addition to benefiting the

environment, it will strengthen

the existing cooperatives of

garbage pickers and open

thousands of job opportunities

in this sector.

EntrEprEnEUrship

Aiming for the productive

inclusion of the poorest people,

Brazil Without Extreme Poverty

will, among other actions,

promote the coordination of

several government programs.

The goal is to create new

opportunities for local economic

development, broaden the market

for micro and small enterprises,

encourage cooperative

arrangements and support the

individual microentrepreneurs,

the microfinance policies and the

Popular and Solidary Economy.

accEss to pUBlic sErvicEs

One of the pillars of the Brazil

Without Extreme Poverty Plan is

the expansion of public services

in areas defined as priorities by

the poverty map. The coverage

of various public programs,

including Bolsa Família, Saúde

da Família (Family Health),

Previdência Rural (Rural Social

Security), Brasil Alfabetizado

(Literate Brazil), as well as Brasil

Sorridente (Smiling Brazil), Mais

Educação (More Education) and

Rede Cegonha (Stork Network),

among others, will be expanded

in these territories.

To ensure improvement in the

care of the population in extreme

poverty and the adoption of new

approaches, training courses

and awareness actions will

be performed involving civil

servants from the three levels of

government - federal, state and

municipal.

For all these reasons, Brazil

Without Extreme Poverty

enhances the best of the Brazilian

experience in the social area. The

plan creates, renews, extends,

and, especially, includes dozens

of programs. It incorporates

the work of Ministries and acts

differently in the urban and rural

areas, and in the various regions

of the country to benefit 16

million poorest Brazilians,

wherever they are.

Transitional HousingMy House, My Life Program

Community KitchensFood Banks

Literate BrazilMore Education

CRASCREAS

Housing and sanitationEarly childhood educationUBS – (Basic Health Unit)

Family HealthStork NetworkMedicines for hypertension and diabetesSmiling BrazilOlhar Brasil – Eye careFight against crack and other drugsDiseases that enhace reference centers for social assistance poverty

Documentation

Energy

Child labor

Support forstreet dwellers

SERVICESFood Security

Housing Social Assistance

PAC

Health

Education

Assistance

The Reference Centers for

Social Assistance (CRAS),

found in all municipalities,

will be used as assistance

and reference centers for the

programs comprised in the


Poverty plan. Aside from the

already existing centers, others

will be created in order to

extend assistance to all areas

where extreme poverty is

concentrated.

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