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The Brazil-Africa Cooperation Programme on Social Protection aims at promoting technical assistance from the Brazilian Ministry of
Social Development and Fight Against Hunger (MDS) to African countries in the development of social policies and programmes.
It is an initiative financed by the British Ministry for International Development and supported by the International Poverty Centre.
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LEAP’s budget for the first year is evaluation; a monitoring of the activities,
of US$ 8 million and it may be raised implementation and outcomes;
up to US$ 26 millions by the fifth year. an evaluation involving beneficiaries;
Due to the investments in infrastructure, operational audits and an independent
cash transfers will represent only 22% impact evaluation at the end.
of the total budget during the first year.
Nonetheless, in the following years, cash
transfers will become the main expense The Ghanaian Government has shown
in the Programme (between 58% and interest in continuing the cooperation
75% from the second to the fifth year). with the Brazilian Government, which
From 2008 and 2012 the total cost of should take place through visits of
the Programme should be between 0.1% Ghanaian technicians to Brazil.
and 0.2% of the public expenses. Brazilians are also interested in
receiving Ghanaian in a study tour
On Monitoring and Evaluation, the mission that should involve other
programme might carry an initial African governments.
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Brazilian Participation in the Regional Experts
Meeting in Uganda
The First Regional Experts Meeting on Social Protection in Africa took place in Kampala, Uganda between April 28th and 30th.
The meeting assembled representatives from Governments of 16 countries from Western and Southern Africa – Cameroon, Ethiopia,
Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe – and also international cooperation agencies, NGOs, international
organizations, representatives from the Brazilian government and experts from local and international institutions.
During the three days of the meeting, over 150 participants discussed the progress of African governments in the development of social
protection policies, emphasizing the need to take specific action to enable the implementation of these policies. There was further focus
on the need to sensitize the actors holding financial resources – Ministries of Finance – thus showing the importance of investing in
social protection for the development of the African continent as a whole.
Three representatives from the Ministry of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger from Brazil (MDS) took part in the meeting: Bruno
Câmara Pinto, Advisor of the Cabinet of the National Secretariat of Citizenship Income, José Cesar de Medeiros, Director of the Department
of Management of the Integrated Policy of the Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security and Celso Augusto Rodrigues Soares, expert
from the General Coordination of the Management of Benefits. The MDS was also joined by Fábio Soares, researcher of the International
Poverty Centre. Experts from MDS explained the Programmes of the Ministry and also the Cooperation Programme with Africa, further
meeting the delegations of Mozambique, Kenya and Tanzania. Inspired by the meeting, MDS started to discuss the scope of the
Study Tour to Brazil which will probably take place in August and also the technical assistance which will be given to the partner countries.
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Seminar: Social Protection in Africa
On May 20th, the International Poverty Centre promoted the Seminar:
Social Protection in Africa: a mapping of the growing cash transfer
experiences in the continent delivered by Melissa Andrade. The study A Mapping of the Growing
presented was the result of a demand from the Brazilian Ministry of
Social Development to better understand the African reality. Cash Transfer Experiences in
The results of the mapping are already available in IPC’s website
and will be later published in the format of a Working Paper for
future reference of those interested in the Cooperation.
the Continent
Access the presentation here
Sharing Experiences
Call for Publications
The Brazil-Africa Cooperation Programme on Social Protection involves the dissemination of
the experiences of Social Protection in African Countries in the format of Working Papers
of the International Poverty Centre. Thus, African governments and researchers in the area
are invited to submit their work to IPC and to help increase the debate and the level of
information available about Social Protection in Africa and the South-South Cooperation.
Access here the publications of IPC on Sub-Saharan Africa
page 4 The International Poverty Centre is jointly supported by the Brazilian Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA)
and the Bureau for Development Policy, United Nations Development Programme, New York.