SUAS: Advantages and challenges of an Unified Social Assistance System

I. How did Brazil reach the

Unified System model

adopted in the social

assistance policy?

II. What is SUAS and how

does it work?

III. What have we achieved in

the last 10 years?

IV. What advantages did the

adoption of the Unified

System model bring to the

social assistance policy in

Brazil?

How did Brazil reach the

Unified System model

adopted in the social

assistance policy

Expansion of social rights, achieving non-contributory social protection (beyond those related to work)

It introduced a new concept of Social Assistance

Policy connected to rights, universal access and state responsibility

It ensured a monthly minimum wage for disabled and elderly people who have no means of self maintenance

FEDERAL CONSTITUTION OF 1988

Social Welfare

HealthSocial

SecuritySocial

Assistance

FEDERALISM MODEL IN THE FEDERAL

CONSTITUTION, 1988

3 Levels of entities with autonomy regarding administrative,

regulatory, political and fiscal competence.

Predominance of decentralized policies, including Social

Assistance.

Decentralization made possible by general compliance of sub-

nationals to a federal pact, which required political negotiations.

Implementation and expenses undertaken mainly by

municipalities.

Source: LASSANCE, A. Federalismo à Brazil, IPEA, 2012.

89% of municipalities with less than

50,000 inhabitants.

Regional inequalities

Concentration of Income and

Poverty

Population Density versus

Population Dispersion

Access to Services and Policies

Cultural and socio-territorial

diversities

Geographical characteristics

Brazilian Inequalities and Diversities

NATIONAL LEGISLATION THAT ENSURE THE RIGHTS OF

SPECIFIC SEGMENTS (children and adolescents, the elderly,

women, among others)

NATIONAL PLANS AND POLICIES (homeless people, people

with disabilities, the elderly, among others)

INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS RATIFIED BY BRAZIL

(child labour, people with disabilities, children’s rights, among

others)

ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO THE CONSTRUCTION

AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UNIFIED

SOCIAL ASSISTANCE SYSTEM

The challenge to the creation of a model for the

Social Assistance Policy:

Non-contributory social

protection as a human

right.

Complying with the

Brazilian federal

organization and its legal

system.

Meeting different realities.

SOCIAL ASSISTANCE

Goals

Social

Protection

Social

Assistance

Monitoring

Upholding

Human Rights

Provisions

Security survival

Safe Refuge

Security of family and community life

Public

Families in vulnerable conditions; (low income, lack of access to rights and services, lack of infrastructure in their territories)

Families and Individuals at riskdue to civil and social rightsviolations (abandonment, domesticviolence, teenagers in trouble withthe law, homelessness, etc.),

A system that organizes the Social Assistance Policy benefits, with:

- National harmonisation of benefits- Definition of federated entities responsibilities

- Management parameters for each of the 3 federation levels.

WHAT IS SUAS

Unified Social Assistance System Organizes social programs, services, projects

and benefits, ensuring unified control in eachsphere.

How does SUAS work

Organizational Principles of SUAS (2012 SUAS Basic Operational Standard)

GUARANTEED ACCESS: to every citizen that needs it.

FREE OF CHARGE: no requirement for contributions or considerations.

INTER-SECTORAL APPROACH: integration and coordination.

EQUALITY: respect for diversity, prioritizing those who are in situations of

vulnerability and who are at personal and social risk.

Management

Forums

Ministry of Social

Development

and Fight against

Hunger

State

Secretariats

Municipal

Secretariats

Negotiations

Forums

Tripartite

Commission

Bipartite

Commission

Deliberation

and Social

Control

Forums

National Council

State Councils

Municipal

Councils

Funding

Forums

National

Fund

State

Funds

Municipal

Funds

Government and Non-governmental Network of Social Assistance Services

Recipient / users

SUAS: Governance Structure

FEDERAL ORGANISATION OF SUAS (LOAS and NOB/SUAS)

COMMON COMPETENCIES

Coordination and management of the policy regarding its scope (planning,

monitoring and evaluation; HR and financial management, regulation, etc.);

Co-financing of SUAS’ services, programs, projects and management

SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

National Parameters;

Continuous Welfare

Benefit for the Elderly and

Disabled and Bolsa

Famila Program

Financing;

Technical Support;

Public disaster and

emergency (support).

STATES

Regionalised services;

Occasional benefits;

Technical Support and Capacity

Building;

Public disaster and emergency.

MUNICIPALITIES

Implementation of SUAS

and care services;

Occasional benefits;

Public disaster and

emergency.

SERVICE PROVISION

Assistance

Benefits

and conditional

cash transfers ServicesPrograms

Directly to

recipientsFund to Fund

Transfer,

regular and

automatic,

using

continuous

transfer

Fund to Fund

Transfer,

regular and

automatic

Projects

Voluntary

Transfer

(pledges)

Management Support

Scale of Risk and Vulnerability

Basic Social

Protection

Preventive actions; Strengthening ties

Audience: families living in a condition of social vulnerability

and/or the weakening of family ties and social belonging.

Special Social

Protection -

Medium

Complexity

Specialized monitoring; Prevention of institutionalization

Audience: Families and individuals at risk due to personal and

social rights violations resulting from abandonment, physical or

mental abuse, sexual abuse and exploitation, teenagers in

conflict with the law, homeless, etc.

Special Social

Protection -

High Complexity

Personalized sheltering; Rescue to Social Coexistence

Audience: Families and Individuals at risk due to personal and

social rights violations and the breaking of family ties.

LEVELS OF PROTECTION

SUAS SERVICES

Services Benefits

Programs Projects

Family

Services Agencies

Basic Social Protection

Service of Protection and Comprehensive Support to

Families and Individuals

Services for coexistence and strengthening ties;

CRASAgencies referred byCRAS

Special Social Protection - Medium Complexity

Service of Protection and Specialised Support for Families and

Individuals;

Specialized social outreach services;

Social protection service for adolescents in socio-educational

programmes, probation and community service

Special social protection service for people with disabilities, the

elderly and their families;

Specialized service for the homeless population.

CREAS

Agencies referred byCREAS

Centro-Pop

Special Social Protection - High Complexity

Home services: institutional; shared housing; foster family.

Protection service in disaster situations and emergencies.

Host Centres

CONTINUOUS BENEFITS Guarantee of a monthly minimum wage to the disabled and the

elderly aged 65 or more who prove they do not have the meansto provide for their own maintenance, or to have it provided bytheir family

Constitutional, individual and non-transferable, non-lifelongrights, independent of previous contributions

OCCASIONAL BENEFITS Additional and temporary provisions, provided to citizens and

families by virtue of birth, death, situations of temporary vulnerability and public disaster.

SOCIAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS

Child Labor EradicationProgram (PETI)

BPC ESCOLA (Program that

monitors the access and permanence atschool of people with disabilities whoreceive the Continuous Welfare Benefitfor the Elderly and Disabled - BPC)

ACESSUAS TRABALHO /BPC TRABALHO (Programs

aimed at promoting the access ofsocially vulnerable people, includingpeople with disabilities who receiveBPC, to the labor market)

Programs that articulate inter-sectoral

initiatives

Fonte: http://www.hojemais.com.br/

SOCIAL WORK WITH FAMILIES

ACCESS TO INCOMEContinuous Welfare

Benefit for the Elderly and Disabled

Bolsa Familia Program

JOINT INTER-SECTORAL

INITIATIVES to access rights and

services from other policies

ACCESS TO SOCIAL ASSISTANCE

SERVICES

SUAS SERVICES NETWORK

Public-State Unit;

Municipal Unit

Support families and preventive actions;

Active Search of families in situations of

poverty and of social vulnerability –

Beneficiaries of the Bolsa Família

Program and the Continuous Welfare

Benefit for the Elderly and Disabled;

Territory Coordination and Management;

SERVICES:

Service of Protection and Comprehensive

Support to Families and Individuals;

Service for Coexistence and

Strengthening Ties;

Mobile Services.

Basic Social Protection: CRAS

Public-State Unit;

Municipal or Regional

coverage;

SERVICES :

PAEFI – Service of Protection

and Specialized Support to

Families and Individuals;

Services for teenagers in

trouble with the law;

Specialized Social Outreach

Services;

Specialized Monitoring of

families at risk due to

personal and social rights

violations

Medium Complexity Social Protection: CREAS

• Public-State Unit;

• Municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants or more than 50,000

inhabitants in metropolitan regions

• Specialized Service for Homeless People

• Specialized Social Outreach Service

• Individual and group consultations, workshops, encouraging leadership

and social involvement

• Individual and collective storage of personal belongings, food, and

personal hygiene.

Medium Complexity Social Protection: HOMELESS PEOPLE

CENTRE

Integral care of person away from family

and/or community by abandonment, abuse,

violence or judicial decision.

• Circles of Life:

- children and teenagers;

- adults and families (migrants, immigrants,

homeless people);

- women in situations of violence;

- youth and adults with disabilities;

• Institutional hosting:

House Shelter

Institutional Shelter

Halfway House

Inclusive Housing

Shared Housing Service

• Foster Family

High Complexity Social Protection:

Hosting services

ORGANIZATION OF THE SOCIAL ASSISTANCE

NETWORK IN THE TERRITORIES

CRAS, CREAS and Centro-POP

Referred agencies

Referred agencies

Referred agencies

Mobile teams in

the Territory

(PAIF, Social

Approach)

What have we achieved in

the last 10 years

Some highlights

Foto: Acervo / MDS

MANAGEMENT

Instituted the SUAS

Governance model

throughout the national

territory

Optimized Public Finance

Professionalized the

sector

2015: 99.3% OF MUNICIPALITIES2005: 24.5% OF MUNICIPALITIES

(Network Co-financed by MDS. Nov/15)(Network Co-financed by MDS. Dec/2005)

Initiatives supported by the Federal Government.

2015: 95% of the municipalities with

over 20,000 inhabitants

2005: 41% of the municipalities with

over 20,000 inhabitants

(Network Co-financed by MDS. Dec/2005) (Network Co-financed by MDS. Nov/15)

Initiatives supported by the Federal Government.

89% of municipalities

with over 50,000

inhabitants

2014 SUAS CENSUS

Total Host Centres

012-34-78 or more

SERVICE NETWORK: EFFORTS TO MEET THE

UNIQUE REQUIREMENTS OF THE TERRITORIES

Image: Ubirajara Machado/MDS

1,158 municipalities with mobile

teams

257 municipalities with vesselsSource: 2014 SUAS CENSUS

2,149 municipalities

with Active Search

Source: 2014 SUAS CENSUS; 2014 RMA

3.5

2.5

31.1

7.0

Percentual da população em situação de extrema pobreza (%)

Percentual da população em situação de pobreza (%)

REDUCTION OF POVERTY AND EXTREME POVERTY,

Brazil, 1992-2014

Source: IBGE/PNAD. Elaborated by: SAGI/MDS

Percentage of the population in extreme poverty (%)

Percentage of population in poverty (%)

Evolution of chronic multidimensional poverty

Brazil, 2002 - 2014 (%)

Source: IBGE/PNAD. Elaborated by: SAGI/MDS

What advantages did the

adoption of the Unified

System model bring to the

social assistance policy

Centralised control: setting parameters for provisions;

organization of management and services; public/private

collaboration

Nationally defined parameters and decentralized supply /

close to the population

Shared management, with co-responsibilities of federal

entities, including public funding

Social control, with participation of users / civil society in

the different spheres (councils)

Nationwide management of the Unified Registry and

service coverage with strong capillarity and possibilities

of adaptation to the reality of the territories.

DECISION MAKING MODEL

National parameters, criteria for public

resources allocation, policy direction and

planning:

Defined with the participation of

entities and users/civil society

HOW WAS IT MADE VIABLE?

institutionalized spaces for inter-federational

negotiation and for the participation of users/civil

society;

democratic and transparent processes

feedback through conference proceedings

(assessment and new demands);

THANK YOU!

Ministry of Social Development and Fight Against

Hunger

MDS CUSTOMER RELATIONS: 0800 707 2003

www.mds.gov.br