BR-M1127 : ReDes for the Sustainable Development of Poor Families

The Networking Programme is an initiative of social investment focused on local economic development, leading solutions for the generation of employment and income of families in poverty with heavy reliance on public income transfer policies in cities with concentrated poverty and low economic dynamism . The networks built through a partnership established in 2011 between the Votorantim Institute and-BNDES Social, Social Fund of the National Bank for Economic and Development offers non-repayable contributions of £ 31 million for each one of the partners, which has invested R $ 30 million in 25 municipalities selected by their members indicators and the presence of units of the Votorantim Group. In the original strategy of the networks 4to year program for implementing the technical support and management will decrease and the local leaders of supported projects would need to spend more and more take the daily management, seeing it as business effectively. But despite all the efforts made in the last three and a half years, there is a likelihood of sustainability of projects supported with this reduction in field follow. The beneficiary organizations are run by people with mostly poor education and technical capacity and localities have institutional capital mostly undeveloped. The goal of this project is to contribute to the beneficiaries improve pruning networks sus condiciones of life and overcome the dependence on transfers from the public and private sector. For this, the project will work in organizations supported by the Programme networks become effectively autonomous and have a network of local support to ensure support for their initiatives in the medium and long term, and after leaving the technical monitoring of program networks. Latent challenges are forming new leaders, the stimulus to the participatory governance, the domain of the production process for all beneficiaries, development of management control tools and capacity trading and selling to markets that pass the access. In addition, another focus of action is the consolidation and expansion of spaces for social participation in the locations of operation