| Country | Brazil | Program Name | Bolsa Alimentação | Year started | 2001 | Status | Stopped (integrated into Bolsa Família starting end 2003) | Targeting | | - target population | Poor families with pregnant and lactating women and young children aged 0–6, and with a monthly PCI below R$90.21 | - targeting method | Geographic targeting and means testing | - coverage | 1.5 million beneficiaries in 2003 (24,175 families in December 2005) | - incidence | n.a. | Benefits | | - benefit structure | R$15 per child per month, for a maximum of 3 children | - payee | Mother | - payment method | Transfers were credited to a magnetic card that could be used to withdraw cash at offices of a federally owned bank, or in very isolated municipalities with lottery agents | - payment frequency | Monthly | - duration | 6 months initially, and after verification of compliance, additional 6-month periods | - additional benefits | None | Conditions | | - health | Complying with a minimum schedule of visits for prenatal and postnatal care
Monitoring the growth of children
Keeping their vaccinations up to date
Participating in nutritional education seminars | - education | None | - other | None | - verification of compliance–method | The health ministry of each municipality verified the attendance of each beneficiary to clinics and informed the federal authorities by sending a list of complying beneficiaries every 6 months | - verification of compliance–frequency | Varied across municipalities. Reporting to federal authorities every six months. | - compliance statistics | n.a. | Program Administration | | - institutional arrangement | Ministry of Health | - program costs | |
Country Context | | General | | - population (total) | 189.3 million (2006) | - GDP per capita (PPP, 2005 $) | $8,673 (2006) | - poverty headcount ratio at $2/day | 21.2% (2004) | Education | | - net enrollment in primary level | 94.7% total (2004)
95.2% for girls, 94.2% for boys | - net enrollment in secondary level | 77.7% total (2004)
81.3% for girls, 74.2% for boys | Health | | - prevalence of child malnutrition (stunting) | 10.5% (1996) | - births attended by skilled health staff | 96.6% (2003) |
Source: Fiszbein A. and N. Schady (2009). Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty. Policy Research Report World Bank. Operational Documents
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The Nuts and Bolts of Brazil’s Bolsa Família Program: Implementing Conditional Cash Transfers in a Decentralized Context (773kb pdf) by Kathy Lindert, Anja Linder, Jason Hobbs and Bénédicte de la Brière, Social Protection Discussion Paper No. 0709; May 2007
| Country | Brazil | Program Name | Bolsa Escola | Year started | 2001 | Status | Stopped (integrated into Bolsa Família starting end 2003) | Targeting | | - target population | Families with children aged 6–15 years and monthly PCI no greater than R$90 ($43) | - targeting method | Geographic targeting and means testing | - coverage | 8.2 million children in 4.8 million families (end 2001), 1.9 million families in December 2005 | - incidence | 40% to poorest quintile (2003) | Benefits | | - benefit structure | R$15 ($7) per month per child for a maximum of 3 children | - payee | Mother | - payment method | Transfers to a magnetic card; benefits could be withdrawn at Caixa Econômica Federal branch offices or lottery agencies | - payment frequency | Monthly | - duration | As long as eligible | - additional benefits | None | Conditions | | - health | None | - education | School attendance at least 85% of school days | - other | None | - verification of compliance–method | School directors sent attendance data to municipal secretary of education, who entered them in Ministry of Education system (Internet or CD-ROM) | - verification of compliance–frequency | Bimonthly | - compliance statistics | 19% of schools reporting attendance information | Program Administration | | - institutional arrangement | Ministry of Education | - program costs | Budget: R$626 million (less than 0.2% of GDP; 2005
Administrative cost: 5.3% of program costs (2002) |
Country Context | | General | | - population (total) | 189.3 million (2006) | - GDP per capita (PPP, 2005 $) | $8,673 (2006) | - poverty headcount ratio at $2/day | 21.2% (2004) | Education | | - net enrollment in primary level | 94.7% total (2004)
95.2% for girls, 94.2% for boys | - net enrollment in secondary level | 77.7% total (2004)
81.3% for girls, 74.2% for boys | Health | | - prevalence of child malnutrition (stunting) | 10.5% (1996) | - births attended by skilled health staff | 96.6% (2003) |
Source: Fiszbein A. and N. Schady (2009). Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty. Policy Research Report World Bank. | Country | Brazil | Program Name | Bolsa Famíliara | Year started | | Status | Active | Targeting | | - target population | Poor and extremely poor families: The estimated target population is about 11.1 million families. | - targeting method | Geographic targeting and means testing (self-declared) | - coverage | 11.1 million families (June 2006) | - incidence | 73.7% to poorest quintile, 94% to poorest 40% (2006) | Benefits | | - benefit structure | Basic benefit (R$62, approximately $30) for extremely poor families whose total monthly PCI is up to R$60 (approximately $30)
Variable benefit (R$20, approximately $11) per child (maximum 3less than 15 years of age) for both extremely poor and poor families
Variable benefit (R$30, approximately $18) per youth (maximum 2 aged 15–17) for both extremely and poor families | - payee | Mother | - payment method | Through a debit card distributed to the beneficiaries | - payment frequency | Monthly | - duration | As long as eligible, with recertification every 2 years | - additional benefits | The adult literacy and education program (Brazil Alfabetizado) targets Bolsa Família beneficiaries who have less than 4 years of schooling. The Government of Brazil (Ministry of Labor and Employment) is developing PlanSeq, a national training program targeted to adult members of Bolsa Familia households (one member per family) in order to improve their skills and provide employment opportunities through the PAC strategy (a federal civil works program). Since March 2008, pilot-testing use of the debit card for simplified bank accounts. Some municipalities either are topping up the benefit or are targeting the beneficiaries with other services, such as social worker accompaniment, professional training and other active labor market programs, and microcredit. | Conditions | | - health | Children aged 0–6: vaccine schedules, regular health checkups, and growth monitoring
Pregnant and lactating women: prenatal checkups, postnatal checkups, and participation in educational health and nutrition seminars offered by local health teams | - education | School enrollment of all children aged 6–15 and youth aged 15–17
Daily school attendance of at least 85% each month for all school-age children
Participation in parent-teacher meetings | - other | None | - verification of compliance–method | Education: municipalities consolidate attendance information; it is passed on to the Caixa Econômica Federal; upon further consolidation, it is passed to the Ministry of Education and finally to the Bolsa Família program in the Ministry of Social Development
Health: health service providers at the municipal level enter information into a national health information system; municipality consolidates information for the Bolsa Família beneficiaries and passes it on to the Ministry of Health twice a year; Ministry of Health in turn provides nationally consolidated information to the program | - verification of compliance–frequency | | - compliance statistics | Education: 4.6% of students did not comply with the attendance requirement in May/July 2006 (information available for 71% of Bolsa Família students)
Health: 99.5% of families were in compliance in the first semester of 2006 (information available for 38.3% of families) | Program Administration | | - institutional arrangement | Ministry of Social Development, in cooperation with the ministries of health and education, the Caixa Econômica Federal, the municipalities, state governments, and control agencies | - program costs | Budget: R$10.4 billion ($5 billion) in 2005 (0.36% of GDP)
Administrative cost: 4% of program budget |
Country Context | | General | | - population (total) | 189.3 million (2006) | - GDP per capita (PPP, 2005 $) | $8,673 (2006) | - poverty headcount ratio at $2/day | 21.2% (2004) | Education | | - net enrollment in primary level | 94.7% total (2004)
95.2% for girls, 94.2% for boys | - net enrollment in secondary level | 77.7% total (2004)
81.3% for girls, 74.2% for boys | Health | | - prevalence of child malnutrition (stunting) | 10.5% (1996) | - births attended by skilled health staff | 96.6% (2003) |
Source: Fiszbein A. and N. Schady (2009). Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty. Policy Research Report World Bank. | Country | Brazil | Program Name | Programa de Eradicacão do Trabalho Infantil | Year started | 1996 | Status | Stopped (integrated into Bolsa Família in 2006 | Targeting | | - target population | Poor households with PCI below one-half the minimum wage (roughly equal to $65/month) and children aged 7–14 years involved in the worst forms of child labor | - targeting method | Geographic targeting and means testing | - coverage | 400,000 students (2000), 1,010,057 children (2005), 3.3 million beneficiaries (2002) | - incidence | 66% to poorest quintile (2003) | Benefits | | - benefit structure | Urban areas (capitals, metropolitan regions, and municipalities with more than 250,000 habitants): monthly transfer of R$40 per child (to family)
Rural areas: R$25 per month (to family) for each child registered
For after-school activities: R$10 (urban areas) and R$20 (rural areas) to schools for each child or adolescent enrolled
For 15-year-olds at extreme risk: transfer of R$65 per month and of R$220 per year for school activities | - payee | Mother | - payment method | Bank account | - payment frequency | Monthly | - duration | As long as eligible | - additional benefits | None | Conditions | | - health | None | - education | School attendance of at least 80%
Attendance at after-school sessions (jornada ampliada) that roughly doubled the length of the school day. | - other | | - verification of compliance–method | n.a. | - verification of compliance–frequency | n.a. | - compliance statistics | n.a. | Program Administration | | - institutional arrangement | Ministry of Social Development and Municipalities | - program costs | R$535 million in 2005 |
Country Context | | General | | - population (total) | 189.3 million (2006) | - GDP per capita (PPP, 2005 $) | $8,673 (2006) | - poverty headcount ratio at $2/day | 21.2% (2004) | Education | | - net enrollment in primary level | 94.7% total (2004)
95.2% for girls, 94.2% for boys | - net enrollment in secondary level | 77.7% total (2004)
81.3% for girls, 74.2% for boys | Health | | - prevalence of child malnutrition (stunting) | 10.5% (1996) | - births attended by skilled health staff | 96.6% (2003) |
Source: Fiszbein A. and N. Schady (2009). Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty. Policy Research Report World Bank. 
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