Avaliação do CMIC como política pública na superação da extrema pobreza: um estudo de caso em Viçosa do Ceará

Abstract

Brazil should be seen as a rich country, a commercial and economic leader within its region, Latin America. However, despite its prominence in food production for export and a strong domestic market, inequality persists, widening the gap between the richest and the poorest. The major problem of this social inequality arises from the lack of basic rights such as health, food, decent housing, work, and income for those in the most vulnerable positions. Poverty can deprive the most vulnerable populations of access to basic rights. This work aims to conduct an impact assessment of the potential benefits generated for families benefiting from the public policy to overcome extreme poverty established by Law No. 16,380/2017, specifically the Ceará More Childhood Card (CMIC) policy, a component of the Ceará More Childhood Program. The CMIC, among other actions, prioritizes income transfer to families in extreme poverty with children under 6 years old, aiming to improve food security, well-being, and child development, overcoming extreme poverty. This study was guided by the following specific objectives: - to describe the Mais Infância Ceará Program, presenting its pillars, target audience, and scope of action; - to characterize the socioeconomic profile of the CMIC beneficiaries and analyze the content of the discourse of the beneficiary families. The research investigates the social impacts of this income transfer policy on the early childhood development of vulnerable families in the municipality of Viçosa do Ceará. Data collected from interviews with twenty beneficiaries and questionnaires administered to five technicians from the CRAS - Social Assistance Reference Center were analyzed. A literature review was conducted, and Textual Discourse Analysis (ADT) was used as the data analysis method. All of this encompasses the methodological approach. This work consists of a case study, based on the following categories of analysis: public policies, social policies, income transfer, poverty, and child development. The work also addresses various historical, geographical, and legislative factors that permeate the CMIC. While initially, after the introduction, it presents the methodological approach and evaluative perspective of the public policy, it concludes with the results and final considerations. It was concluded that the Ceará More Childhood Card (CMIC) has not yet achieved its main objective, which is overcoming extreme poverty.