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33 rd ICSW Global Conference Symposium 4. Public Policies for families in LA The role and impacts of the new Conditional Cash Transfers Programmes Brazil, Chile and Mexico Sônia M. Draibe NEPP / UNICAMP/ BRASIL. Presentation overview. Description of common features of CCTs
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33rd ICSW Global ConferenceSymposium 4 Public Policies for families in LA The role and impacts of the new Conditional Cash Transfers Programmes Brazil, Chile and Mexico Sônia M. Draibe NEPP / UNICAMP/ BRASIL
Presentation overview • Description of common features of CCTs • CCTs: what they are • Strategic meanings and evolution • Key dimensions • CCTs: main concerns • Main Results and Impacts • Conclusions Some evidences from Programa Bolsa- Família - Brasil • Programa Oportunidades – México • Programa Puente/ Chile Solidário – Chile
CCTs Programmes: what they are Mean-tested cash benefit given to households under poverty line Focus on family Cash benefit is paid to the woman (with kids) Conditioned on household participation in services, usually: –– Children’s school attendance (about 80%) school –– Preventative health care such as pre--natal and postnatal check--ups, vaccinations, growth monitoring Often includes ‘‘supply--side’’ components improving health and education infrastructure and services Few programs include training/ work as condition
LA CCTs: Strategic Meanings and Evolution • Innovations/ Strategic meanings • Conditionality of the cash benefits • Family and Gender--focused approach • Nucleous of the current strategies to fight poverty • Main tool of public policy for family Evolution • Start Point: middle 90’s • Fast growth and diffusion- more than 15 countries • Strong political support - domestica and international
CCTs Programmes in LA: Dimensions, general characteristcs and national variations
CCTs Programmes in LA: Brazil, Chile and Mexico Dr Sônia M. Draibe
LA Conditional Cash Transfers - CCTs MAIN CONCERNS • Have the CCTs came to stay? • resources, sustainability? • Are they effective to promote poverty and inequality reduction? • Promoting the full entry into the social protection system? • Promoting the stronger authonomy of persons/ families? • What kind of relationship they mantain with the universal social programs of education and health?
CCTs Programmes in LA: Brazil, Chile and Mexico Dr Sônia M. Draibe What we know about CCTs results and Impacts? Four sets of Impacts