Desempenho na Gestão Pública do Programa Bolsa Família sob a Perspectiva de Análise do Índice de Gestão Descentralizada (IGD)

• Main Authors: Ambrozina de Abreu Pereira Silva, Marco Aurélio Marques Ferreira, Doraliza A. Abranches Monteiro
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul 2012-01-01
• Series: Desenvolvimento em Questão
• Subjects: public administration; public management; brazil's bolsa família program
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=75224619009
• ISSN: 1678-4855; 2237-6453

This study aimed at verifying performance in the public management of Brazil's Bolsa Família Program (BFP) - a conditional cash transfer program - and also at identifying factors associated with efficiency and quality in the program¿s management in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As a reference for this study, the Decentralized Management Index (DMI) acts as a financial incentive for a suitable local management of the program. A theoretical framework was developed based on the enactment and decentralization of public policies. Descriptive statistics were used as a basis to measure the local management of the BFP and the Pearson product-moment correlation procedure was used to identify factors associated with efficiency and quality in the program¿s management. The results show that some towns have very low performance on the DMI since they were not able to reach the minimum level for the provision of resources, which illustrates flaws in the program¿s management. Besides the factors adopted for developing the DMI, town size and the number of beneficiaries seem to influence the BFP quality and efficiency. Moreover, information monitoring and conditionality accompaniment mechanisms need clear improvement to ensure the population access to basic rights, such as education and healthcare, thus fulfilling with the objectives of the PBF: to reduce poverty among generations and to provide families with support to meet the fundamental rights they are entitled.