Under the Brazil Social Sector Program, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was contracted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to support the design and evaluation of the Federal income transfer and human capital formation program Bolsa Alimentação. Under the terms of the contract, the IFPRI team was requested to: a. Analyze and comment on work undertaken so far by the national team on the conceptualization of the program; norms and regulations; operational routines; and collection of data relevant to the development of the Monitoring & Evaluation system. b. Analyze and comment on the implementation of the program, in particular the geographic targeting and coordination between Federal, state, and municipal governments. c. Analyze and evaluate the proposed system for program management, particularly regarding data entry and the reports to be prepared at municipal, federal and state levels. d. Support the design of a work plan to develop and Monitoring & Evaluation instruments for the program implementation.
Please refer to the documents section below to obtain more in-depth information about program design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.