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Challenges and Potentialities for Implementing Social Protection Responses to Emergency Through Decentralized Administration: Lessons from Brazil’s Auxilio Emergencial

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dc.contributor.authorLara de Arruda, Pedro
dc.contributor.authorLazarotto de Andrade, Marina
dc.contributor.authorFalcao, Tiago
dc.contributor.authorTeixeira Barbosa, Diana
dc.contributor.authorMorgandi, Matteo
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-18T21:47:24Z
dc.date.available2022-01-18T21:47:24Z
dc.date.issued2022-01
dc.description.abstractWith the advent of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Brazil has come out with one of the fastest and most generous social protection responses globally. Auxilio Emergencial (AE’s) operation is in contrast to that of regular social protection programs due to its highly centralized setup with limited formal involvement of subnational governments. Therefore, this analysis aims at understanding some core reasons why this happened and what were the main implications of this centralized operation to the program. The text also describes measures that were enacted to mitigate challenges due to the exclusion of subnational governments from the operation of AE and discusses the extent to which these can integrate traditional decentralization mechanisms of regular programs in the future and further improve the sectoral case management capacity at large. This paper is structured in seven chapters. Chapter one is introduction, chapter two presents a conceptual framework describing main forms of decentralization and discussing their adequacy to different contexts and traditional functions of the social protection sector. Chapter three presents an overview of AE highlighting its centralized setup and already discussing some main reasons why traditional decentralization mechanisms, such as the unified social assistance system (SUAS), were not formal members of the program. Chapter four discusses legacies of SUAS historical support to social protection in Brazil and how these have contributed to AE even if the system was not formally involved in the program. Chapter five describes some main challenges faced by AE and that can arguably have been mitigated had SUAS and or other subnational governments been part of its formal operation. Chapter six considers how SUAS and decentralized forms of social protection were nevertheless relevant as complementary measures to that provided by AE. Finally, chapter seven concludes by summarizing some core lessons learned for engaging decentralized mechanisms in emergency responses in the future.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/099220101172240554/P17483609702e30c90b70f0a0d69d378aed
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/36839
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/36839
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Brasilia
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectSOCIAL ASSISTANCE
dc.subjectDECENTRALIZED ADMINISTRATION
dc.subjectPANDEMIC RESPONSE
dc.subjectCORONAVIRUS
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.titleChallenges and Potentialities for Implementing Social Protection Responses to Emergency Through Decentralized Administrationen
dc.title.subtitleLessons from Brazil’s Auxilio Emergencialen
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okr.crossref.titleChallenges and Potentialities for Implementing Social Protection Responses to Emergency Through Decentralized Administration
okr.date.disclosure2022-01-18
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-07T10:37:29.896456Z
okr.date.lastmodified2022-01-18T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work::Other Social Protection Study
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/099220101172240554/P17483609702e30c90b70f0a0d69d378aed
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099220101172240554/pdf/P17483609702e30c90b70f0a0d69d378aed.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeLatin America & Caribbean
okr.region.countryBrazil
okr.topicPublic Sector Development::Public Sector Administrative and Civil Service Reform
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Services & Transfers to Poor
okr.topicPublic Sector Development::Decentralization
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Social Protections & Assistance
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Disease Control & Prevention
okr.unitSocial Protection & Labor LCR (HLCSP)
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