National Secretariat of Food and Nutrition Security

Cisterns Program

- Water, considered as food, can be found among the fundamental rights of Brazilians – Art. 6 of the Constitution (Constitutional Amendment No. 64/2010).

- Access to water as a component of food security (Art. 4, Section I of the Organic Law on Food and Nutrition Security).

- Universal access to quality and sufficient water for both human intake and food production can be found in the National Policy on Food and Nutrition Security (Art. 3, Section VI of Decree No. 7.272/2010).

Water and Food Security

THE BRAZILIAN SEMI-ARID REGION

• 969 thousand km² – (20.3% of the national territory)

• Highly inhabited semi-arid region: 22 million people.

- 1,134 municipalities in 9 States.

- 40% of the population from extremely poor rural areas (IBGE 2010).

CISTERNS PROGRAM

• PURPOSE: ensure that low-income rural population

from the semi-arid region have access to drinking water,

through the storage of rainwater in tanks (cisterns).

• Families with no access to water supply – randomly

provided.

•Simple and efficient rainwater capture structure.

•Easy-to-use equipment, family use, low cost (BRL 2,000.00), simple maintenance, high durability.

• Storage Tank: 16,000 liter of rainwater for domestic use (drinking, cooking, personal hygiene).

CISTERNS – SOCIAL TECHNOLOGY TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO WATER

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BENEFITS FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE POPULATION

• In general, families headed by women, with children and the elderly undergoing food insecurity, always in remote places.

IMPLEMENTATION METHODOLOGY

1. Community Mobilization

- Capacity building and mobilization of leaders from the civil society through city councils and committees – program steps.

- Selection of families carried out in a participatory and transparent way.

IMPLEMENTATION METHODOLOGY2. Capacity Building

- Training of technical staff, trainers and bricklayers from the local community.

- Capacity for families in the maintenance of tanks (cisterns) and the use and treatment of water, as well as in notions on citizenship and living in the semi-arid region.

3. Participatory construction: involvement of beneficiary families and the community in general throughout the construction process.

IMPLEMENTATION METHODOLOGY

4.Control- Cisterns receive an identification plate on which a number and geographical reference is written;- Families are registered in the program and sign a receipt (Acknowledgement of Receipt);- Data is made available through the monitoring system (SIG Cisterns) and also on the MDS website (www.mds.gov.br/cisternas)

EFFECTIVENESS OF THE USE OF PUBLIC RESOURCES

Annual Budget until December/2011BRL 765 millions in 9 years

Number of Cisterns Built Annually until December/2011415 thousand cisterns built

PARTNERSHIPS

• Brazilian Semi-Arid Articulation (ASA);• State Governments;• Municipal Government and Consortiums; • Spanish International Cooperation Agency (AECID);• Brazilian Federation of Banks (FEBRABAN);

BRAZIL WITHOUT EXTREME POVERTY: Water for All:Universal Access to Water – Rural Areas in Brazil

- 750 thousand cisterns in the Semi-Arid Region (water for consumption)- 600 thousand families receiving water for production

Cisterns Program

(MDS)

Water for All (MDS and other Ministries

and Public Banks)

BRAZIL WITOUTH EXTREME POVERTY WATER FOR ALL Program

MDS Goals

• CURRENT DEMAND: 750 THOUSAND CISTERNS• 2011 - 210 thousand cisterns • 2012 - 190 thousand• 2013 – 130 thousand• TOTAL : 530 THOUSAND CISTERNS IN 2.5 YEARS

RESULTS AND IMPACTS

Social Impacts of the Cisterns Program (MDS/SAGI – EMBRAPA)

Sample of 4,189 households, stratified by 11 Landscape Units (Agroecological Zoning of the Northeastern Region).

Some Results:Less time spent on searching for and carrying water, especially with regard to women and children.More time for leisure activities, especially for children, and more time for adults to dedicate themselves to children.Improved quality of water consumed by families.Decrease in the number of times adults and children get sick.93% of families say they are very satisfied with the cisterns.

INDIRECT RESULTS

• 14 thousand bricklayers capacitated;

• Training and hiring of young people through the program;

• About 3 thousand community leaders mobilized who have

contributed to the organization of community – rights and

investments – through the program.

• Networking among municipal and state government, and the

civil society.

RESULTS AND IMPACTS

• Empowerment of families – access to water unchains families

from local political dependence;

• Intensification of local economy – construction material and

workforce employed by the local community;

• Possible effect on the decrease in child mortality and rural

exodus.

Before and After

Before and After

Purpose:- Improve water capture, storage and use for domestic purposes through the dissemination of experiences and technologies of sustainable use of land and water resources;- Implement water capture and storage units;-Capacity and promotion of experiences exchange on sustainable management of water resources.

Segunda Água – Food production for family use and commercialization of surplus

1. Mobilization

- Establishing local commissions, registering and selecting eligible families;2. Capacity Building- Training technical team, replicators and bricklayers, as well as offering courses on Management of Water Resources for Food Production and management of implemented social technologies;

3. Exchanges- Regional and municipal exchanges;- Peer-to-peer exchange of knowledge, appreciation of local knowledge;

4.Implementation of social technologies- Equipment + infrastructure and inputs for production – BRL 850.00 (USD 512.00)

5. Control- Setting a georeferenced database with information on each technology implemented and benefitting family registered.

Segunda Água Program – Implementation Methodology

Financial Execution: 2008-2010: BRL 87 million 2011: BRL 120 millionAverage Price: BRL 10 thousand (BRL 6,030.00)

3 Partnership Agreement with AP1MC, State Partnership with BA, RN, PI, CE, PE and Municipal Consortiums

Social Technologies Implemented through the Segunda Água Program

Stone Tanks

Underground Dams

Ground Capture Systems

Low-cost Water Pumps

Runoff Collection Tanks

Cisterns in Schools

914 benefitting schools

1) Training and capacity building for children, teachers/workers in food security and living in the semi-arid region;

2) Promotion of improved teaching and learning conditions through improved water, food and nutritional security;

3) Strengthening of the process of social, cultural and political change required for sustainable life in the semi-arid region of the state of Bahia and Brazil, in general.

Cisterns in Schools

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