Social Protection in Sao Paulo - July 27

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Social Protection in the city ofSoPaulo

Social Protection in So Paulo

Anna Fruttero

Presentation to the delegation from Johannesburg

Washington DC, July 27th 2011


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Scope & Context

Social Protection: anti-poverty and/or risk

management policies and programs


Cash or in-kind transfers

Mandatory social insurance programs Programs that aim to help individuals buildskills, find jobs, improve earning opportunities


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Scope & ContextIn So Paulo, social protection services and programs are offeredby several municipal secretariats


Social Assistance and Development (SMADS); Economic Development and Labor (SEMDET); Education (SME);

Health (SMS); and Participation and Partnerships (SMPP).


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Scope & Context


Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS) established in 2005to organize the social assistance sector and promote

collaboration among all government levels.

Two types of social protection within SUAS:Basic - that focuses on vulnerability prevention, and

Special - that focuses on populations that have hadviolated rights, such in cases of victims of violence,abandoned children and elderly and the homeless.


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Scope & Context


Entry point to the SUAS are:

CRAS (Centro de Referencia de Assistencia Social) Offer socialprotection services, hold the CadUnico, organize the network ofsocial assistance

CREAS (Centro de Referencia Especializado de Assistencia Social)

Provides services to individuals or families whose rights havebeen or are at risk of being violated.

Municipalities are responsible for the provision of basic and

special social protection in their territories, as well as for the

delivery of special programs and transfers targeted to the poor


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Vulnerability in the City

In an effort to understandthe multidimensionalcondition of poverty, theSMADS uses the Indice

Paulista de VulnerabilidadeSocial(IPVS).


12.9% of its residents (1.3million people) living in areas

of very high vulnerability

Greatest vulnerability islocated in the southern andeast areas.


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SMADS Social Protection Services

36 CRAS:

9 CREAS

and11 smallercentres



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The SMADS subcontracts a vast number of services that themunicipal network is not able to cover with its own staff:


For Basic Social Protection, there are currently more than 704

subcontracted services that support 100,000 people (mainly onfamily reintegration activities and on training courses foradolescents and adults).

For Special Social Protection, there are currently more than 342subcontracted services that support 33,200 people (including130 sheltersthat look for various types of groups such families, children and the elderlyand centers for victims of violence).

SMADS social protection services


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SMADS Program Challenges

Some programs have similar target populations and eligibility criteria, butthey use different registry systems and different implementation schemes.

Registries do not communicate with each other.They are separatesystems and may easily have registered the same family in 3 differentsystems.


Registry/

Key Information

Cadastro Unico Banco de Dados Cidado Pro-social

Who does itregister

Families with percapita monthly

income of up to half

a minimum wage.

All families that areinterested in registering

(doesnt have an income

limit to be registered)

Families with per capitamonthly income of up to

half a minimum wage.

Total registered

families in the city

480,000 600,000 40,000


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SMADS: Programs Challenges


Estimated number of families eligible for PBF is 327,000 families.Coverage is 60%

Estimated number of Poor families (profile CadUnico) 720,264.Totalfamilies in CadUnico 480,000

With new emphasis on CadUnico as unique registry for socialprograms, need to strengthen social workers at the CRAS to better

register families and link them with available opportunities.


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SEMDET programs


SEMDET aims at developing training and inclusion projects to supportw

orkers (re)entry in the labor market.

It works on three levels: labor intermediation; training; and micro-credit for micro and small entrepreneurs.


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SEMDET programs


Labor intermediation

Services are offered in the network of WorkSupport Centers (Centrosde Apoio ao Trabalho CATs). Currently there are 17 throughout the

municipality and an additional 6 mobiles.

Local offices offer free services such as:

posting of vacancies;validation of unemployment insurance requests,

training and capacity building activities, including soft skillscourses for interviews and examinations, and orientation to work, issuing of the carteira de trabalho and microcredit - for those whoseek inclusion in the formal labor market and income generation.


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SEMDET programs


Training

One the responsibilities ofSEMDET is to implement actions topromote social and professional skills, for the most disadvantagedcitizens and socially vulnerable in the city ofSo Paulo.

It currently oversees five main programs directed to different targetgroups


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SEMDET programs


Work Grant Program : youth 16 to 20 from families with monthly per capita

income below of MW ;

Operation Work Program: for worker who have been unemployed for over 4

months and do not receive UI;

Young Paulistanos: provides training and preparation for entenring the laborforce for youth and adults (16 and older) in situations of social vulnerabilitywho

have al least completed primary education (some courses require high school);

ProJovem: young people 18 to 29 years who are unemployed, are members offamilies with per capita monthly income of up to 1 minimum wage and who are

completing or have completed primary school or high school;

PlanTeq: people aged 16 and up living in Sao Paulo, who are unemployed andhave completed (or are enrolled in) high school


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