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SINGLE REGISTRY: A FOCUSING TOOL
The municipalities are key in managing the single registry.
The registry has a data collection form
which identifies each family member,
their relationship within the family,
and the social and economic description of each family member.
The municipalities joined the single registry
and the Bolsa Familia program, and pledged to register
all low-income families in the single registry.
Nearly 1/3 of the poorest, most vulnerable Brazilian population
is in the single registry of social programs.
The registry includes features of the household,
where the people live, if they have access
to basic sanitation, their income, schooling...
This enables the three federation levels
to better implement the programs.
With all this data, the use of the registry
is not exclusive to the Social Development Ministry.
Data in this single registry are confidential
because they can identify people.
What methodology is used to verify
the low-income status of the registered population?
In Brazil, it is self-stated income.
All this contributes to focus the program
from a targeting approach of how to reach
the public to be reached,
rather than a more restrictive approach
or of only caring for the poorest of the poor.
No. It's targeting in the sense of making
the government perceive the needs of the poorest
and most vulnerable population, which often is the one
with more difficulties in stating their demands
to the government.
Thus we say, using a metaphor,
that the single registry, apart from a map of poverty,
is a view representing sight, voice and action.
After seeing and hearing demands, the government must act
to improve its programs, making them more synergic
and effective, to build a social protection system
focused on equality, care,
and the rights of all Brazilians.
We never encourage families to keep relying
on Bolsa Familia forever, as a kind of crutch.
It’s a ladder. We offer them Bolsa Familia
to enable their financial emancipation
and mainly to improve their self-esteem, their dignity.
We work a lot to emancipate the families.
The beneficiaries are selected by the Ministry.
In the municipalities, we only have
the duty of sharing the data,
of informing about a family’s reality through the system.
We inform them and they have a list of priorities,
which we now know from our experience.
We see that they give preference to families with more children
between 0 and 15 and disabled or elderly members.
They have a list of priorities.
We also work raising awareness among families,
of the importance of children going to school,
of attending health centers to control their weight.
We work on raising awareness, which must still be done,
but has been very much achieved.
We work hard to prevent desertions.
Upon the first hurdle or sign,
we seek the families to do a follow-up,
to see why the children are missing school,
why mothers don’t take the kids to the doctor,
why their data aren’t updated.
So we also work on family follow-up.