Second Bolsa Família

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The Second Bolsa Familia Adaptable Program Loan Project for Brazil seeks to strengthen the Bolsa Familia (BF) program's ability to achieve its objective of reducing poverty and inequality and promoting human capital development by improving schooling and health status of children and reducing incidence of malnutrition among the poor population. There are six components to the project, the first component being conditional cash transfers. The objective of this component is to co-finance the provision of grants (the BF grants) to mothers or other designated family members to enable their families to access health, education and other services as provided in the BF program and the Operational Manual. The second component is the strengthening Cadastro Unico as the main targeting instrument for social programs. The third component is the institutional strengthening for the consolidation of the Bolsa Familia Program. The fourth component is the consolidation of the monitoring and evaluation system in the Ministry of Social Development. This component will provide support, training, technical assistance, equipment and selected incremental operating costs to consolidate Ministry of Social Development (MDS) capacity to monitor and evaluate social programs at federal and sub-national level and to strengthen its capacity. The fifth component is the supporting the National Commitment for Social Development (CNDS). This component will provide support, training, selected incremental operating costs, and technical assistance to MDS to make operational the CNDS. Finally, the sixth component is the operational support to the project implementation unit at the MDS.