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Promotion of Rural Productive Activities Programme (Programa de Fomento às Atividades Produtivas Rurais) (2011-)

 

 

Date: 2011-
Web: Official website of the programme
Description: The programme contributes to the productive inclusion strategy of the Brazil Sem Miséria Plan, by supporting the productive investments of family farmers and vulnerable traditional peoples and communities. The programme seeks to stimulate the generation of work and sustainable income, as well as to encourage the associative and cooperative organization of the participants and their entrepreneurship skills. Productive projects can be individual or collective, agricultural or non-agricultural.
   

Characteristics

Target population: Families living in extreme poverty or poverty, registered in the Cadastro Único, and working as family farmers, silvicultures, aquaculture, extractivist and fishermen, and/or who belong to traditional communities and indigenous peoples
Area of intervention: 1) Support for independent work
2) Technical and vocational trainning
Geographic scale: National/Rural
Targeting method: Categorical
Registry of recipients: Single Register for Social Programs of the Federal Government (CadÚnico)
Exit strategies or criteria: The transfer of resources depends on the signature of the adhesion term and the presentation of the structuring project of the family unit. The release of the second and third parts depends on the presentation of accompaniment awards from the family productive unit by the technical assistance team, confirming the progress in the development of the structuring project. The minimum terms are six and twelve months after the release of the first plot. In case of exceptional situations that prevent or delay the execution of the project, the term may be extended in up to six months.
Comments: The participants are selected by the entity ATER (Technical Assistance and Rural Extension) based on a guiding list available to the federal government, as well as through an active search of families eligible that are not part of the guiding list. The list is composed of data from families of the nutritional food surveillance system of 2014, and income data, collected by MDS (Ministry of Social
   

Institutionality

Legal framework: Law No12.512/2011
Decree Nº 7.644/2011
Decree Nº 9.221/2017
Responsible organization(s): Ministry of Social and Agrarian Development (MDSA) and Special Secretariat for Family Agriculture and Agrarian Development (SEAD)
Executing organization(s): Caixa Econômica Federal
Source of funding: Government of Brazil
   

1) Promotion Brasil Sem Miséria Transfer

Recipient(s): Participants belonging to Brazil Sem Miséria (monthly income up to BRL $ 89 per person in 2021)
Recipient of the transfer: Direct participant
Description: Monetary transfer for a total amount of BRL$ 2,400, it can be delivered in two or three instalments. When the amount is delivered in two instalments, the first is by an amount of BRL$ 1,400 and the second is BRL$ 1,000. If the total transfer is delivered in 3 instalments, the first is BRL$ 1,000, and both the second and third are equivalent to BRL$ 700 each.

 

2) Semi-Arid Development Transfer

Recipient(s): Participants with monthly income up to BRL $178 per person in 2021
Recipient of the transfer: Direct participant
Comments: To participate in this modality, families must have water storage for agricultural production and the minimum production capacity for its implementation.Therefore, families that have been attended or selected by the Cisterns Program and other actions of the Water for All Program will have priority.
Description: This modality was created in 2013. The amount of the transfer is equivalent to BRL$3,000 (BRL$ 1,800 for the first one and BRL$ 1,200 for the second one)

 

3) Technical assistance services

Recipient(s): Programme participants
Recipient of the transfer: Direct participant
Description: Families participate in meetings, field trips and training, and receive visits from Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (ATER) technicians. The technicians accompany the families throughout the development of their productive project, supporting them in order to allow them to manage the financial resources in an appropriate way.

 

4) Family and productive accompaniment

Recipient(s): Participants of the program
Recipient of the transfer: Direct participant
Description: The social and productive monitoring of families will include the following activities: i) Identification of the members of the participating families, their socioeconomic conditions and access to factors of production, their vulnerabilities and their potentialities; ii) Articulation for families to access other public policies needed to reduce their vulnerabilities; iii) Guidance to participants' family members regarding identification documents and access to other public policies; iv) Regular monitoring of family development through home visits

 

Fomento rural. Análise dos diagnósticos e projetos produtivos dos Acordos de Cooperação Técnica

Author: Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social
Date: 2018
Publication info: Secretaria Nacional de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional, Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social
Link: See Webpage
Topic: General information

 

Fomento rural. Programa de fomento às Atividades Produtivas Rurais. Promoção da inclusão produtiva e combate à pobreza rural - Documento para agentes técnicos.

Author: Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social
Date: n/a
Publication info: Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social, Brasilia
Link: See Webpage
Topic: General information

 

Fomento rural. Programa de fomento às Atividades Produtivas Rurais. Promoção da inclusão produtiva e combate à pobreza rural

Author: Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social
Date: n/a
Publication info: Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social, Brasilia
Link: See Webpage
Topic: General information

 

A Importância do Programa de Fomento às Atividades Produtivas Rurais para a Inclusão Produtiva de Povos e Comunidades Tradicionais

Author: Carneiro, C. and C. Nogueira
Date: 2016
Publication info: Baru. 2. 164. 10.18224/baru.v2i2.5270.
Link: See Webpage
Topic: Case study

 

The Sertão do São Francisco Territory (IRPAA) – Development of Rural Activities

Author: Villarosa, Francesco di
Date: 2016
Publication info: WWP (World Without Poverty), Brasilia
Link: See Webpage
Topic: Case study

 

Rural productive inclusion: the technical assistance experience and grant from the State of Ceará, Brazil

Author: Villarosa, Francesco di
Date: 2017
Publication info: WWP (World Without Poverty), Brasilia
Link: See Webpage
Topic: Case study

 

Program data sheet: Rural Productive Activities Oriented Cash Transfer

Author: WWP (World Without Poverty)
Date: 2017
Publication info:
Link: See Webpage
Topic: General information

 

Fact sheet: Rural Productive Activities Oriented Cash Transfer

Author: WWP (World Without Poverty)
Date: 2017
Publication info:
Link: See Webpage
Topic: General information

 

Programa de Fomento às Atividades Produtivas Rurais. Cartilha para agentes de ATER no âmbito de acordos de cooperaçao técnica

Author: Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social e Agrário
Date: n.a.
Publication info:
Link: See Webpage
Topic: General information

 

 

 

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