The trajectory of social housing policy in Brazil: From the National Housing Bank to the Ministry of the Cities

This paper discusses social housing policy in Brazil since the 1990s by analyzing government programs’ institutional arrangements, their sources of revenues and the formatting of related financial systems. The conclusion suggests that all these arrangements have not constituted a comprehensive housing policy with the clear aim of serving to enhance housing conditions in the country. Housing ‘policies’ since the 1990s – as proposed by Fernando Collor de Mello, Itamar Franco, Fernando Henrique Cardoso and ´ Luis Inacio Lula da Silva’s governments (in the latter case, despite much progress towards subsidized investment programs) – have sought to consolidate financial instruments in line with global markets, restructuring the way private interests operate within the system, a necessary however incomplete course of action. Different from rhetoric, this has resulted in failure as the more fundamental social results for the poor have not yet been achieved.

Implementação da política de assistência social em Mossoró/RN : uma avaliação a partir dos centros de referência da assistência social

The current National Policy for Social Assistance (PNAS) is the instrument that regulates the organization and procedures of social-welfare actions. Developed and approved in 2004 since the Unified Social Assistance System (ITS) was crated in 2003, it reaffirms the democratic principles of the Social Assistance Organic Law (LOAS) focusing on the universalization of social rights and equality of rights when accessing the social-welfare system. In the SUAS point of view, the PNAS highlights the information, monitoring and evaluation fields for being the best way to assure the regulation, organization and control by the Federal Government paying attention to the principles of decentralization and participation. This political-institutional rearrangement occurs through the pact among all the three federal entities. The pact deals with the implementation of the task. It says that it has to be shared between the federal autonomous entities, established by dividing responsibilities. To the cities, considered as the smallest territorial unit of the federation and closer to the population, was given the primary responsibility, which is to feed and maintain the database of SUAS NETWORK and identify families living in situations of social vulnerability. In addition to these responsibilities, the cities that have full autonomy in the management of their actions, have the responsibility to organize the basic social protection and the special social protection, that using the Center of Social Assistance Reference (CRAS) and the Center of Specialized Social Assistance Reference (CREAS), are responsible for the provision of programs, projects and services that strengthen the family and community; that promote people who are able to enjoy the benefits of the Continuing benefit of Provisions (BPC) and transfer of incomes; that hold the infringed rights on its territory; that maximize the protective role of families and strengthen its users organization. In Mossoró/RN, city classified as autonomous in the social assistance management, has five units of CRAS that, for being public utilities, are considered the main units of basic social protection, since they are responsible for the connection between the other institutions that compose the network of local social protection. Also known as Family House, the CRAS, among other programs and services, offers the Integral Attention to Families Program (PAIF), Juvenile ProJovem Program, socio-educational coexistence services programs, as well as sending people to other public policies and social-welfare services network, provides information, among others. In this large field, social workers are highlighted as keys to implement the policy of social assistance within the city, followed by psychologists and educators. They should be effective public employees, as a solution to ensure that the provision of the services are to be continued, provided to the population living around the units. However, what we can find here is inattention to the standard rules of social assistance, which not only undermines the quality of programs and services, but also the consolidation of policy on welfare as public policy of social rights

Desenvolvimento e assistência social : uma avaliação da efetividade da política de assistência social nos municípios de Assú e Mossoró (2004 -2008)

This thesis, whose title is DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE: AN EFFECTIVENESS EVALUATION IN SOCIAL ASSISTENCE POLICY IN THE CITIES OF ASSÚ AND MOSSORÓ/RN (2004/2008), has as main aim to evaluate effectiveness in Social Assistance Policy in the cities of Assu and Mossoró/RN, from 2004 to 2008, identifying its impacts and effects in life of its users. The methodological process for the research was composed by: a) Literature review on this theme, development of public policies; social public policies, public policy evaluation and Social Assistance Policy in Brazil; b) Documental research from Municipal Management of Social Development and Municipal Counsels of Social Assistance in the cities of Assu and Mossoró/RN about the object of this study and empirical field; c) Field Research constituted by the realization of Focal Groups with Social Assistance users and semistructured interviews with municipal managers from Assú and Mossoró. It was also taken into account participant observations in events and activities related to Social Assistance previously mentioned, considering field management and also the response to users demands. Articulating the themes of Development and Public Social Policy in Social Assistance was the theoretical purpose for this thesis. To achieve this purpose, it was performed two theoretical displacements related, at the same time, to the notion of development and to the concept of Social Assistance, which means to comprehend development as social change and improvement in users life quality, expressed in the expansion of their capacities and liberties (SEN, 1993, 2000), and the Social Assistance as an element for development. Such displacements provide a view of Public policy and Social Policies and evaluate National Policy of Social Assistance achieved in those cities. As product, this thesis presents a methodological purpose for effectiveness evaluation in Public Policy, taking into account expansion of capacities and liberties, concluding that Social Assistance Policy in Assú and Mossoró/RN, even in lesser extent had its impact and caused effective results in the life of their users and provided an expansion of their capacities and liberties, improving life quality and empowered agent condition for those subjects. The results show that this Policy has been proved to be effective, and consequently, it was considered, in this thesis, to be also an element and an allied for development

Política de assistência social no Brasil: uma análise a partir das tipologias de políticas públicas

The study of public policy typologies is still a knowledge field which lacks more embracing and applicable studies to different sectors. On that perspective, this work, Social Assistance Policy in Brazil: an analysis from the typologies on public policy, pursues to add the relevant literature to social assistance what focus on the public policy ratings. Moreover, it concerns about a study on the the national policy of social assistance implemented by the Brazilian government from the theoretical referrence of the public policy typologies. For that reason, the referential framework of the public policies as well as the analisys of its fundamentals/principles that are indispensable for achieving a bigger goal, that is to tipify the social assistance policy based on the different public policy typologies and characterize it through the main elements which are intrinsec to the social political and economic reality of Brazil. Thus, the issue suggested for the work is: what is the profile and the political trajectory of the social assistance implemented by the Brazilian Government? How it presents, above all, the features of a distributive, focused and lawful policy, the work has been done througho the following hypothesis: the social assistance policy in Brazil has been of universal, assistance, and focusing aspects. For each of those features granted to the social assistance policy, there is a gathering of changes according to the social, political and economic moment of the country and that stands out due to the different institutions within every cyclical period. The work showed that besides the social policy has gone through meaningful changes during the last decades, even though the adoption of the Organic Law of Social Assistance and its rules, some of the mentioned characteristics still remain, as long as the State s primacy goes on being the economic policies over the dubbed social policies. Notwithstanding, the social assistance will build up itself from the materialization of the growing of the social rights related to the State, but also assuming an important role on the amplified reproducing process regarding the capitalist social relations

A dimensão educativa do serviço social: uma análise do processo interventivo da profissão no âmbito da política de assistência social do município do Natal/RN

Can be declared that throughout the historical trajectory of the Brazilian Social Work, the men in the Social Work profession, women in the Social Work profession in his/her professional activity, present an educational dimension that runs through various social and occupational spaces, particularly in the area of Social Assistance Policy. Based on this premise, this present Dissertation, problematize the educational dimension present on the interventional process, in Social Work on the ambit of the Social Assistance Policy in Natal / RN city Brazil in the contemporary scene. Having thus, specific objectives that orientate the research of the interventional process of Social Work in the social assistance policy, analyzing of the apprehension of Social Work professionals on the educational dimension, in their daily work professional and the verification of the relationship between the educational dimension, to the professional action of both men in the Social Work profession and women in the Social Work profession and the concretization of social rights on the ambit of the social assistance policy. In this sense, the theoretical and methodological procedures used for this research, are substantiated on a critical-dialectical perspective and a qualitative and quantitative approach, from of the application of field research, of the non-participant observation, of the semi-structure, of the review of literature bibliographic and documental. Thus, considering that both women in the social work profession and men in the social work profession are an organic intellectuals who in their daily professional work promotes an intellectual and moral reform of their users, the results of this research, synthesize and show that the educational dimension in both professional work and social assistance, which have partner-historics, whose imbrication allows, contradictorily, by a side, a reaffirmation of the dominant culture, and by other side, a direction linked to the construction of an emancipatory culture in the pursuit of the materializing of social rights and a new sociability

O financiamento da política de assistência social no contexto do SUAS: tendências e particularidades do município do Natal-RN

This dissertation analyzes the configuration of the financing of Social assistance in the municipality of Natal-RN in the context of their particular expressions of the problematizando municipal budget against neoliberal adjustment macroeconomic policy. The current trends of "disclaimer" and "desfinanciamento" of social protection by the State, in the context of contemporary capitalism, bring strong implications for Social Security, especially through the redirection of public resources to the international capital, which highlights the overlapping economic interests on social needs. Whereas the changes and innovations occurring in connection with the financing of Social assistance policy, the goal of this documentary research is to identify the characteristics and trends of funding this policy in Natal-RN, from the secondary data analysis from the City of Natal, the Ministry of Social development and hunger and Portal of transparency. In the light of the theoretical, research now presented, shows trends of investment in Social assistance in the municipality of Natal-RN, in the period 2005 to 2009, which are: the tiny role membership (08) Social assistance in the municipal budget; the dispersion and fragmentation of the resources of Social assistance in other organs and/or secretariats of municipal administration; the participation of just 47.5% in expenditure from own organ Manager; the low percentage of implementation of resources foreseen in the Annual Budget Laws; the low allocation of resources in Municipal Social Assistance Fund (FUMAS), which contradicts the national policy for Social Assistance-PNAS/2004; and the predominance of government transfers in the composition of the resources of Social assistance in the municipality. The results of this research suggest that the process of financing of Social assistance in Natal is distant from the principles and guidelines pointed by PNAS/2004. In addition to the effort to understand the complexity of the financing of Social assistance in Natal, this work seeks to contribute to a political analysis in the direction of strengthening social control and the struggle for the expansion of investment in social spending

O Entrelaçamento entre assistência social e trabalho informal: verdades e equívocos em tempos de crise do capital

The thesis presented here is of interest management to analyze the performance of the State, through the materialization of the professional courses, the process of integration of users CRAS-Pajuçara informal. Therefore, we assume that poverty and inequality reach a significant portion of the world population, in a context where the working class family is seen as an alternative to face the multiple expressions of social issues. Thus, before the changes of Productive Restructuring, marked by flexibility, outsourcing and casualization of labor relations in the world, the working class family must find ways to ensure their survival. In this direction, we discuss the advances, limitations and challenges posed to the Social Assistance Policy in contemporary, situating this context, the role of the state. Furthermore, we discussed the functionality of informality to the capitalist system, showing how capital appropriates of informal work, placing it in its logic, and thus makes the capital-labor ratio increasingly predatory, inhuman and unequal. The methodological procedures for the preparation of this study constitute a literature and documentary, beyond 10 semi-structured interviews directed to users of CRAS-Pajuçara, participants of training courses for the period 2010-2011. In light of the critical-dialectical rationality, and in a context where informal work has increasingly been co-opted as an alternative to huge unemployment in the same direction in which the welfare rises in tackling social inequality, the scope of this study, discusses and reveals the truths and misconceptions that surround this bourgeois discourse, in times of crisis of capital, the city of Natal, Brazil

Institutional reform and government coordination in Brazil's social protection policy

Includes bibliography

Cambio social y la política de desarrollo social en América Latina = Social change and social development policy in Latin America

Incluye Bibliografía

Participação, controle e Serviço Social na política municipal de assistência social de Uberaba/MG: tensão entre a radicalização democrática e as estratégias de reprodução do capital

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

O conselho Municipal de Assistência Social de Campo Grande - MS e a gestão da política de assistência social - uma experiência em debate

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

A implantação do Sistema Único de Assistência Social no município de Ourinhos-SP: a contribuição do Serviço Social

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A prática interdisciplinar na política de assistência social: o caso das CRAS de Abaetetuba-PA

Esta Dissertação de Mestrado em Serviço Social tem como objetivo fazer uma reflexão sobre a prática interdisciplinar entre assistentes e psicólogos que atuam nos Centros de Referência de Assistência Social do município de Abaetetuba. O Município está localizado á aproximadamente 80 km da capital do Estado do Pará e tem aproximadamente 139.000 habitantes, conforme o último censo IBGE. Desde 2005 vem implementando as diretrizes da Política Nacional de Assistência Social de 2004. A Nova Política Nacional de Assistência Social, por meio de suas diretrizes e principais objetivos visa a consolidação dos processos de descentralização da gestão. Institui um novo modelo organização dos serviços socioassistenciais, unificando conceitos e procedimentos em todo território nacional através do Sistema Único de Assistência Social que, por sua vez, estabelece padrões para a execução dos serviços, para a qualidade no atendimento, e define indicadores de avaliação e resultado. A interdisciplinaridade ainda é considerada um conceito em construção, entretanto nesta realidade configura-se como uma relação de reciprocidade de mutualidade que pressupõe uma atitude diferente a ser assumida frente aos problemas de conhecimento, isto é substituir a concepção fragmentária pela unitária do ser humano. Esta atitude, não poderá ser preconceituosa, mas aberta onde todo conhecimento torna-se importante, pode ser fundamentada na intersubjetividade e interação entre os saberes, mas não pode estar desligada do contexto onde ela ocorre. A atuação prática interdisciplinar no Centro de Referência de Assistência Social, bem como em outros programas projetos e serviços desta política é incentivada, mas na realidade do município aqui pesquisado observou-se que existem muitos obstáculos e desafios para o exercício desta prática. Desde o não cumprimento das normatizações que regulamentam a Política de Assistência Social até a superação das condições precárias nas relações de trabalho, tanto no que diz respeito ao vínculo, quanto às condições físicas e materiais dos espaços, passando pela necessidade de implementação de gestão voltada a qualificação e valorização dos recursos humanos inseridos no SUAS.

Intervenção profissional em serviço social na área da assistência social: estudo da dimensão técnico-operativa na ação de assistentes sociais em CRAS na região metropolitana de Belém-(PA)

A dissertação ora apresentada, se propõe ao estudo crítico da intervenção profissional, no campo particular da política de Assistência Social, no interior da concepção da dimensão técnico-operativa, ao qual participaram 05 assistentes sociais que trabalham nos Centros de Referência da Assistência Social –CRAS, localizados geograficamente na Região Metropolitana de Belém-Pa, dimensão técnico-operativa essa, situada dentro da Política Nacional de Assistência Social –PNAS/2004, haja vista que, esse estudo foi viabilizado a partir da compreensão desses assistentes sociais sobre o uso dos instrumentos técnicos que mais apareceram na fala desses sujeitos, ou seja, durante suas intervenções profissionais no ano de 2013, com vista a identificar, possíveis dificuldades de compreensão teórica e a sua relação com a prática profissional, na perspectiva de compreender como se dá o uso dessa instrumentação técnica dentro da articulação orgânica entre a relação teórico-metodológica, ético-política e técnico-operativa. Tem como base de análise a teoria Dialética e o método adotado, foi a técnica de Analise de Discurso, com vista a qualificar mais a pesquisa, bem como, a consulta em bibliografias, artigos e revistas da área do Serviço Social; a pesquisa se deu por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, orientadas pelo instrumento denominado de roteiro de entrevista. Buscou-se evidencias a partir da compreensão desses sujeitos expressos através das falas analisadas, de como essa dimensão técnico-operativa, assim como os instrumentos utilizados, comparecem nas ações práticas dos assistentes sociais no momento das intervenções profissionais, bem como, saber o porquê da dificuldade de compreensão da relação teoria e prática nesses espaços sócio-ocupacionais. Como resultados preliminares, verificou-se que nas intervenções profissionais, os assistentes sociais vêm apresentando dificuldades de compreensão a cerca da teoria social crítica, impactando dessa forma, no uso da instrumentação técnica, ora tendendo para a concepção tecnicista, ora tendendo para a concepção teoricista, reproduzindo-se assim, a polêmica histórica no interior do Serviço Social.

Resiliência em idosos atendidos em um Centro de Referência de Assistência Social em Santarém – PA

Esta pesquisa objetivou verificar de que forma ocorre a resiliência dos idosos que fazem parte do serviço de convivência e fortalecimento de vínculos, serviço este que de acordo com a Política Nacional de Assistência Social prioriza um envelhecimento ativo, saudável e autônomo. A pesquisa foi realizada em um Centro de Referência de Assistência Social, na cidade de Santarém (Oeste do Pará), com duas idosas de 64 anos que participavam do grupo. Foi utilizada uma escala de resiliência para selecionar as duas participantes da pesquisa, estas preencheram um questionário sociodemográfico, em seguida foram entrevistadas. O método utilizado foi o da história oral. Os resultados mostraram que o Serviço de Convivência e Fortalecimento de Vínculos contribui com o desenvolvimento de fatores de proteção e que as idosas apresentaram em suas histórias de vida inúmeras situações em que os fatores de proteção contribuíram com a resiliência frente às adversidades. Quanto ao envelhecimento e suas adversidades, o grupo de idosos se apresenta como uma rede de apoio. Levando-se em conta o conceito de desenvolvimento utilizado neste estudo o life span, em que o ser humano pode desenvolver-se até os últimos dias da sua vida. Concluiu-se ainda que o idoso ao apresentar inúmeras adversidades, é afetado pelas mesmas, porém, pode ter um envelhecimento saudável através da resiliência, esta que pode ser desenvolvida e estimulada através dos fatores de proteção obtidos com os serviços do CRAS.