The Challenge of Integrating Social Protection Programmes

Abstract

Coordinating social protection programmes across different ministries is a challenge in every country. It is not easy to make public organisations engage in dialogue. Exploring different institutional models may be crucial to finding solutions to an often “dysfunctional” government. Brazil, Chile and Colombia are cases worth exploring in Latin America, while Kenya and Ghana in Sub-Saharan Africa are examples of new experiences that are now being developed. Apart from CONSEA (the National Council on Food Security and Nutrition), Brazil also has interministerial chambers and formal coordination mechanisms under the 1993 Organic Law on Social Assistance. There is a National Council of Social Assistance, State Councils and Municipal Councils comprising representatives from the government and from civil society organisations. The National Council is attached to the Ministry of Social Development and is responsible for coordinating the National Social Assistance Policy, approving the budget and the criteria for transferring resources, monitoring management of the resources and the progress made. (...)Coordenar programas de proteção social