Brazil

Integrated Program: Rural Poverty Reduction Project ? Maranhão

City/State/Region: Maranhao - MA
Begin – End: 2004 – 2008
Name of organization in charge: World BankGovernment of Maranhao
Type of organization in charge: government international organization
Level: regional

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: -
Policy Outcome: -

The Maranhão Integrated Program: Rural Poverty Reduction is an agreement between the World Bank and government of the state of Maranhão, in which the World Bank was responsible for lines of credit and investment in partnership with the state to reduce rural poverty. This goal was pursued through: empowerment of social agents in the rural environment, supervision of public investments carried out in the state, expansion of technical assistance to rural workers and funding of Community actions of investment in rural area. The methodology implemented was CDD (Community-Driven Development), based on participation, transparency, investment in local agents and extension of surveillance over public and private investments. All the planning, implementation and development of this project was conducted with participation of local social agents. They were enganged from in financing and direct investment in civil society for the implementation of policies, the assembly of councils of supervision, advice, technical improvement and strengthening of other democratic innovations of local dynamics as municipal councils of food security and rural development.

Institutional design

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Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?

Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?

Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?

Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?

Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?

Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?

Formalization: only backed by a governmental program or policy
Frequency: single
Mode of selection of participants: restricted
Type of participants: citizens civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields no decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation