Technology for Implementation: Management Information System

Unified Registry for Social Programs, Brazil

Cláudia R. Baddini Curralero – Ministry of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger

What is Unified Registry?

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• It’s an instrument of identification and socio economic characterization of low income families:

Monthly income equal or below ½ of a minimum wage per person or (US$155,00)

Familiar income up to 3 minimum wages (US$933).

• Families with superior income can be registered if the inclusion is bounded to the selection of social programs implemented at federal, state and municipal levels.

• It’s necessarily used for the selection of beneficiaries and integration of social programs of the Federal Government aimed at the attendance of this public

Unified Registry

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It’s a representative map of the poorest and most

vulnerable families in Brazil, with great potential of use

by public policies because it presents:

• family composition

• address and characteristic of their home

• access to public services (water, electric energy, sanitation)

• monthly expenses

• enrollment in Social Programs

Information about the family and their home

• civil documentation

• educational qualification

• situation at the labor market

• income and others Data from each

member of the family

Unified Registry - Data

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Approximately, 79 million people and 23,9 million families registered – 91% of low-income; 53% of extremely poor (US$ 35 monthly per capita)

Level of updated registries about 75%;

Approximately 88,000 daily inclusions or alterations;

From the beginning of Brazil without Extreme Poverty Plan (June 2011) to January 2012, it were included 775 thousands of extremely poor families;

Identification of the Target Group: 1. Estimation of families in poverty, based on National Household Sample Survey (Pnad), provided by

MDS;

2. Identification of traditional and specific families: indigenous, quilombola, homeless, unemployed or people with slavery like labor - orientation to differentiated registration.

History: Implementation of a Unified

Registry for Social Programs

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90’s: period of reforms in social policies with the expansion of social rights and universal services by the Federal Constitution of 1988. Insertion of income conditioned transfer programs, focused on the poorest people (PETI, Bolsa Escola, Bolsa Alimentação, Auxílio-Gás)

In 2001 the Unified Registry were created, through the Presidential Decree nº 3.877, with the purpose of being a unified database for social programs. A form to gather information on the families was developed in order to support the implementation and integration of these programs.

In 2005, occurred the formalization of the municipalities´ participation on the development of the Unified Registry and Bolsa Família Program. Besides, there was the establishment of financial support to the municipality management, especially in what refers to data updating.

History: Implementation of a Unified

Registry for Social Programs

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In 2007, the legislation of the Unified Registry were improved, in order to define more clearly the goals, processes, tools, operationalization and competences, reaffirming it´s purposes. The Presidential Decree nº 6.135 is published and, at this moment, the Unified Registry becomes a mandatory instrument for selection of beneficiaries and integration of social programs of the Federal Government aimed at the low income population.

In 2011, the Unified registry becomes the tool to select the beneficiaries of the Brazil without Extreme Poverty Plan

Unified Register Evolution

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The Unified Register Evolution has implemented the directive to

make it a pillar for articulating the broad network of social

promotion and protection, coordinated by MDS, and it made an

important mechanism for social integration programs in various

areas and at all levels of the federation .. Graphic 1 – Number of

Registered Families between 2006 and 2012

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Famílias cadastradas - Perfil CadÚnico (em milhões)

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Structure and Budget

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The department of Unified Registry is managed by the Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger (MDS), through the National Secretariat of Citizenship Income (Senarc), responsible for coordinating, monitoring and supervising the Implementation and execution of the Unified Registry. The Department has 4 Coordinations (System, Management, Relations with partnerships and Active Search). There are 40 people in total.

The management costs of the Unified Registry (management at the federal level and the transfers of incentives) are not even 1% of the funds that are transferred to beneficiary families from Bolsa Familia. The budget of Bolsa Familia in 2012 is US$10 billion – US$10 million

Federal Programs that use the Unified Registry to

select beneficiaries

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Unified Registry

Bolsa Familia Program

Condition Cash Transfer (US$70)

13,7 million families

Social Tariff for Electric Energy (STEE)

discount on electric bill .The discount

ranges from 10% to 65% (US$155)

10,6 million families

Cistern Program (Construction of water

tanks in semiarid region of Brazil)

500 thousands

Green Grant (“Bolsa Verde”) : cash

transfer to preserve the rain forest

(US$35) - 29 thousands

Others Federal Programs that use the

Unified Registry to select beneficiaries

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• Programs and actions of Brazil without Extreme Poverty Plan

• Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS) – services offered by SUAS, aimed at families at

social risk and vulnerability

• Child Labor Eradication Program(PETI)

• Habitation Programs – Ministry of Cities

• Incentive Program for Rural Productive Activities

• Social Letter – Letter with maximum weight of 10 grams, sent by an

individual person, valued at R$ 0,01, for beneficiary families of BFP

• Free Pass to people with disability

• Elderly License for free fare in public transportation

• “PróJovem” Youth

• Retirement for optional insured people who don’t have personal income and devoted exclusively to domestic work within their home.

• Literate Brazil

Registration flow

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Examples of utilization of the Unified

Register by Usual Programs

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A Literate Brazil: identification of families with their illiterate members who may be potential users of the program

- identify the universe of families by age, region, municipality, urban and rural areas;

Bolsa Verde/ATER: the matching of other governmental database make it possible the identification of families that live in areas of extractive forests, protected by the land reform;

Identify the universe of families by age, revenue, region, etc.

Pronatec: identification of people with a potential professional profile by their age, school level, region, municipality, etc..

Available information in the Registry

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Goals of the

Unified Registry

Identification and characterization of

the most socially vulnerable segments

of the population Gateway to social policies and

programs for the low-income population

Planning, Evaluate and Monitoring

tool for public policy to low-

income families

Creation of indicators that

reflect the various dimensions of poverty and vulnerability

Convergence of efforts for the

priority attending of families in vulnerable situations

Challenges for the reinforcement of the

Unified Register

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1. System stability V7

- Monitoring of the system disponibility (Guardian) and the conditions of connectivity municipalities

2. Monitoring of the quality of the Unified Register information

- Monitoring of the registration management in the municipalities, the system improvement of the Auditorium.

3. Make the access to the information of the Registration easier

- Development of tools that facilitate the utilization of the registration: Tabcad, Cecad and Webservice with Usual Programs

4. Enlargement of the Register Covering

Active research, Registration of Groups and Specific Populations (Guide for Registration of Groups and Specific Populations)

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Thank You!

Cláudia Baddini Curralero

Administration of the Unified Register – Ministry of Social

Development and Fight against Hunger