| Date: | 2003 |
| Description: | Federal programme of income transfers linked to food security (without conditionalities), established 2003 in the recently created Special Ministry of Food Security and Hunger Combat (MESA), predecessor of the current MDS. That same year the programme became part of the newly created Bolsa Família programme. The program continued to provide cash transfers to families that had not migrated to the Bolsa Familia Program. |
Characteristics
| Target population: | Families in extreme poverty with children aged 0 to 6 years and/or pregnant women. |
| Geographic scale: | National |
| Exit strategies or criteria: | Maximum period of permanence: 6 months extendable up to 18 months |
Institutionality
| Legal framework: | MP 108 (27/02/2003); Law 10,689 (13/06/2003) |
| Responsible organization(s): | Special Minister of Food Security and Hunger Combat (MESA) |
1) Cartão Alimentação
| Recipient(s): | All participating households of the programme |
| Mode of transfer: | Flat transfer |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Monthly |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Mother |
| Maximum per household: | One transfer per household |
