Cisterns ProgramNational Program of Rainwater Harvesting Supportand Other Social technologies of Access to Water

Institutional/Legal Context

• Water, as food, is part of the fundamental rights of Brazilians(Federal Constitution, art. 6);

• Access to water as a component of food security (art. 4, I, OrganicLaw of Food and Nutrition Safety - LOSAN). Universalization(quantity e quality) as a PNSAN guideline;

• Cisterns Program: performed by the National Secretariat of FoodSecurity, as an action within the Water for All program (“ProgramaÁgua para Todos”) of the Federal Government and the Brazilwithout Extreme Poverty Plan (“Plano Brasil sem Miséria”).

Goal• Support to the implementation of social technologies to

expand conditions of access to water for human consumption (First Water and Schools) and animal consumption and for food production (Second Water).

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- Low income familiesaffected by drought orthe regular lack of water.

- Dispersed in the ruralarea.

- Usually families led bywomen, with childrenand elderly under foodinsecurity conditions.

Target Audience

Context

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- Until 2003- Families under food insecurity by the lack

of access to quality water, either forconsumption (water as food), or as aninput for the production of healthy food;Mainly in the Brazilian Semi-Arid region.

- From 2003 to 2010- 329.5 thousand plate cisterns of 16,000

liters and 10,000 production technologiesdelivered.

- Water access actions and initiatives inseveral structures within the Government.

Municipalities in the semi-arid region, by number of families

without access to water (demand for cisterns). CadÚnico – Jan/2011

Strategies to guarantee access to water in rural areas since 2011

- The Water for All program as a way to articulate initiativesand actions of water access to the Brazilian countryside;

- Increase in the support to storage and decentralized accessto water, establishing the bold goal of 750 thousand familycisterns for human consumption and 76 thousandproduction technologies;

- Definition of the target audience, demand and follow upfrom the Unified Registry of Social Programs

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Strategies- Coordination and monitoring of actions at the level of the APT (territory,

management committee and situation room).- Diversification of partnerships and technologies to be supported, aiming at

complementarity.

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Cisterns Program• Support to the implementation of social technologies to

expand conditions of access to water for humanconsumption (First Water and Schools) and animal consumption and for food production (Second Water).

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- Low income familiesaffected by drought orthe regular lack of water.

- Dispersed in the ruralarea.

- Usually families led bywomen, with childrenand elderly under foodinsecurity conditions.

Target Audience

Systematics

State Publica Consortia Municipalities NGOs Public Call for the

selection of private non-profit entities , according

to the standardized model Formalization of the

Service Provision Contract, according to

the standardized model

Waiver of bidding for the entities previously accredited by the MDS

Work Plan with social technology goals and methods and unity

reference value specified by the MDS in and Operational

Instruction

Advance of the 1st

installment and later payments per product

(technologies delivered)

Accountability ate the Cisterns SIG (Receiving

Term)

Public Interest Civil Society Organizations

Partnership Term

Covenant

Social Technologies• Models of Social Technologies of Water

Access supported by the Cisterns Program:

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• 1 – Plate Cistern for 16,000 Liters;• 2 - Ferrocement Cistern for 16,000 Liters;• 3 - School Cistern;• 4 - Promenade Cistern for 52,000 Liters; 5 - Flood Cistern for 52,000 Liters;• 6 - Roof Multipurpose Cistern;• 7 - Underground Dam;• 8 - Canvas Clay Pit;• 9 - Trench Clay Pit;• 10 - Traditional Clay Pit;• 11 – Small-Dam System;• 12 – Stone Tank;• 13 - Popular Water Pump;• 14 – Micro-Weir;• 15 – Shallow We.• 16 - Autonomous Multipurpose Pluvial System; 17 - Multipurpose Pluvial System.

Flood Cistern

Micro-Weir

Autonomous Multipurpose Pluvial

System

Stone TankTrench Clay Pit

Underground Dam

Plate Cistern

Promenade Cistern

School Cistern

Popular Water Pump

Implementation Methodology -Activities

Capacitybuilding andmobilization ofcivil societythroughmunicipal councils andcommissions: social control.

Selection ofFamilies

Training of families for the management of the water stored in the technology and techniques e of water management;

Exchange of experiences.

Capacity building

Materials are usually purchase at local market;

Involves interaction between local labor

and beneficiaries.

Building

Distribution of plant shoots and seeds,small animals and infrastructure, in the case of water technologies for the production of food.

ProductiveCharacter

• Basis for the food and nutrition security of families;• “Anchor” for an education and social development process;• Exchange of experiences about life in the semi-arid;• Result of a process that involves the whole community.

Balance sheet – 1st Water

* Data updated until September 2015

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329.569

876.552State

BSM

Deliveries

(2011-

2015)

Total

Deliveries

(2003-

2015)

Alagoas 49.126 62.423

Bahia 268.819 341.583

Ceará 222.237 283.498

Maranhão 5.225 5.992

Minas Gerais 90.613 104.591

Paraíba 50.867 97.510

Pernambuco 116.596 161.446

Piauí 40.391 74.225

Rio Grande do Norte

33.481 67.126

Sergipe 11.445 19.975

Total 888.800 1.218.369

1,2 milhão de cisternas entregues

(2003-2015), sendo 782 mil cisternas

de placas entregues pelo MDS (2003-

2015) – das quais 453.273 apenas no

Brasil Sem Miséria*

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50.000

100.000

150.000

200.000

250.000

300.000

350.000

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

MI e Funasa 46.6 97.3 179. 31.9

FBB 30.7 39.5 9.81 0

MDS 6.49 36.0 35.8 72.1 42.8 29.9 68.6 36.6 87.7 78.0 100. 111. 75.0

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tity

1.2 million cisterns delivered (2003-2015), 782,000 plate cisterns delivered by the MDS (2003-2015) – of which 453,273 only in the

Brazil without Extreme Poverty Plan*

7.433

122.970

0

10.000

20.000

30.000

40.000

50.000

60.000

70.000

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

BNDES 0 16.77 3.230

Petrobras 0 10.84 9.201 0

MDS 583 2.003 4.847 2.977 9.273 18.00 34.80 41.79

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Balance sheet – 2nd Water

* Data updated until April, 2015

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State

BSM

Deliveries

(2011-

2015)

Total

Deliveries

(2008-

2015)

Alagoas 8.710 9.037

Bahia 48.229 50.103

Ceará 23.102 23.846

Minas Gerais 9.322 10.023

Paraíba 9.040 9.736

Pernambuco 28.791 30.048

Piauí 10.020 10.927

Rio Grande do Norte

10.634 11.351

Sergipe 2.415 2.697

Total 151.701 159.206

159.206 tecnologias

entregues pelo MDS (2008-

2015), sendo 151.701 apenas

no Brasil Sem Miséria*

159,206 technologies delivered by the MDS (2008-2015), 151,701

only in the Brazil without Extreme Poverty Plan*

Geo-referenced Technologies

Municpality of Curaçá/BATotal deliveries: 1,851 cisterns since 2003

Images: Google

Images: Google

Municipality of Santana do Matos/RNEvolution of cistern delivery

Geo-referenced Technologies

Sep/2014Feb/2008

Expansion of the action area

Caatinga/Semiarid22 million inhabitants;1,134 municipalities in 9 States;Water Scarcity; Concentration of population in extreme poverty;Low coverage of the public supply network (30%).

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Amazon16,5 million inhabitants;775 municipalities in 9 states;High water availability, but with problem of water potability; Concentration of population in extreme poverty;Low coverage of the public supply network (33%);

Results and Impacts

• Improvement in quality of thewater consumed by the family, witha reduction of the frequency ofsickness in adults and children.

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• Decrease in the time dedicated for search and transport of water, especially by women and children

• More leisure time for children and for adults to dedicate to their children.

Results and Impacts

• Movement of the local economy: buildingmaterial and labor (mostly young people) areusually hired in the community itself;

• 34,300 bricklayers/cistern makers trained;• Autonomy for the family: access to water breaks

local political dependencies; Patronage givesplace to citizenship.

• Strengthening of local social organizations (co-responsible for the implementation at the locallevel);

Results and Impacts

• Provides objective conditions for agriculturalfood production;

• Higher diversity of food produced andconsumed by the family;

• Development of subsystems previously limitedby water scarcity;

• Generation of income (monetary and non-monetary), from the production of food forconsumption or for trading the surplus.