Programa Bolsa Família em comunidades indígenas Teréna

Abstract

The Brazilian indigenous population consists of vulnerable ethnic group, presenting a complex state of health and poor living conditions. The Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) is a conditioned public policy, established in 2003 that aims to transfers federal funds to elected families and improve their life quality. Thus, the PBF provide the basic health service, education and social assistance, furthermore it make easier the access to others complementary social program. Considering the potential impact of this policy on reducing vulnerability of the indigenous population, this study aimed to evaluate the implementation of PBF at the municipal level and the adjustment of its actions to the Teréna indigenous population. The essay was performed from January 2011 to December 2012 at the aldeias Lagoinha, Córrego do Meio and Tereré from Terra Indígena Buriti, located in Sidrolândia, Mato Grosso do Sul. The interviews were performed to the key-members of the local government, beneficiated indigenous families and to the members of local community social council. The main result of the research indicated that the local administration shows shortcoming in the fulfill the intersectoral approach, since it doesn't promote integrated actions between its involved departments. Even with better coverage than the national average, the PBF indigenous coverage indicate failures in the process of registration of indigenous families in the municipality as well as inadequacies were found in the development and monitoring of health and social services. Moreover, lack of representation of indigenous in the local community social council also infer a failure and was found inadequacies in articulating and promoting opportunities for the development of individual skills and sustained empowerment of the indigenous families included in that research. In this way, the municipal policy needs improving the implementation process in the county to meet particularities of this indigenous population and to achieve higher levels of effectiveness of the actions of PBF.