A ajuda para os fracos: percepções de beneficiárias acerca do programa bolsa família em um pequeno município do Interior da Bahia

Abstract

Poverty programs in Brazil in 90’s were centralized on national level, fragmented, discontinuous, and dispersed among many Ministries and secretaries. Therefore, they were inefficient and could be promote patronage practices. There is a new Federal Constitution since 1988. This new Constitution provokes the creation of strategies against poverty and inequality, as the conditional cash transfer programmers. The cash transfer programmer aims to promote linking between others social programs. Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) is the larger cash transfer program. It is central in the Sistema Brasileiro de Proteção Social. Bolsa Família has many aims. The PBF intends to promote access to services deliveries as health, education, and assistance protection. This program can stimulate the emancipation of poor and very poor families. It can still to provoke intersectoral approach between social programs. The overall objective of this study is investigate the impacts of PBF in a small municipality in state of Bahia. The source of this study were the experiences of beneficiaries. The methodology used was qualitative. It has performed eight interviews. After, results were processing, and discourses were analysed by the method of the content analyse. he results point out Bolsa Família has contributed to the families' improvement of purchasing. It is important to emphasized that six interviewees has not been emancipated. In general, interviewees did not know they could exercising the social control of the programm. At last, two interviewees have mentioned the laziness "efeito preguiça". The results can guide discussions on the PBF in small municipalities in Brazil.