Luciana Jaccoud (Disoc/Ipea), September 2016. This study aims to evaluate the institutional buildup focusing the improvement of intergovernmental relations in Brazilian social policies and to assess the intergovernmental coordination bodies and instruments in health, education and social assistance policies.

1. Social Policies in
Federal Systems
IPEA
Brasília, 29 September 2016

2. Social Policies in Federal Systems
Project 91/2015 – IPEA, Social Policy Division
Head of Research: Luciana Jaccoud
Team:
• Ana Cleusa Serra Mesquita
• Andrea Barreto de Paiva
• Elaine Lício
• José Geraldo Gontijo Jr.
• Katya Calmon
• Roberto Gonzalez
• Vanessa Moreira

3. Social Policies in Federal Systems
• Goals
• Evaluate the institutional buildup focusing the improvement of
intergovernmental relations in Brazilian social policies;
• Assess the intergovernmental coordination bodies and
instruments in health, education and social assistance policies;
• Identify the collaboration pattern and intergovernmental
relations inside the Social Assistance Unified System and the
Health Unified System, as well as the instruments employed to
foster collaboration;
• Analyse the collaboration pattern and intergovernmental
relations in the education policies and the reform efforts aimed
at building a National Education System;
• Improve knowledge about impacts these instances, mechanisms
and instruments on social and territorial inequalities in each
policy.

4. Axis for Analysis
• Institutionalized Forums for Intergovernmental Joint
Decision-Making
• Collegiate Bodies: Tripartite Comissions (Health and
Education) and Intergovernmental Bodies (Education)
• Federative Coordination Instruments
• Financial
• Intergovernmental Pacts
• Monitoring
• Collective Representative Actors
• State and Municipalities

5. Organization and Methodology
Phases
• Literature Review on Federalism and Social Policy
• Literature Review on Comparative Studies: Germany, Canda, Mexico and Argentina;
• Analysis of the intergovernmental coordination experience on education, health and
social assistance federal policies;
• Analysis of the intergovernmental coordination experience on education, health and
social assistance state policies – Ceará, Pará, Rio Grande do Sul e Bahia;
• Analysis of finanacial instruments for intergovernmental coordination.
Team
5 researchers and 2 PhD on fellowship
Procedures
• Document Research, including registers of intergovernmental bodies;
• Interviews with specialists and managerial government officials on all levels for the
three policy areas (56 until now)
• Observation of meeetings - intergovernmental comissions and subnational
collective representative bodies

6. Social Assistance
• Collegiate Bodies for Joint Decision-Making
• Tripartite Comission (CIT) – Federal Government and Representatives
from States and Municipalities
• Bipartite Comissions (CIBs) – State Government and Representatives
from Municipalities
• Coordination Instruments
• (Co)funding and financial incentives (FNAS, Basic and Variable Grants,
IGD-PBF etc.)
• Pacts and Goals (State and Municipal Indicators Improvement)
• Monitoring (Censo SUAS/IGD Bolsa Família)
• Collective Actors
• Fonseas – National Body of social assistance state secretaries
• Congemas – National Body of social assistance municipal secretaries
• Coegemas – State Body of social assistance municipal secretaries

7. Health
• Collegiate Bodies for Joint Decision-Making
• Tripartite Comission (CIT) – Federal Government and Representatives from
States and Municipalities
• Bipartite Comissions (CIBs) – State Government and Representatives from
Municipalities
• Coordination Instruments
• (Co)funding and financial incentives (FNS, Basic and Variable Grants, etc.)
• Pacts and Goals (State and Municipal Indicators Improvement)
• Monitoring (Sispacto/SUS)
• Collective Actors
• Conass – National Body of health state secretaries
• Conasems – National Body of health municipal secretaries
• Cosems – State Body of health municipal secretaries

8. Educação
• Multiple Intergovernmental Bodies for Joint Decision-Making (all
with three-level representation)
• National Body for Permanent Negotiation
• Basic Education Fund (FUNDEB)
• Joint Action Plan (PAR)
• Coordination Instruments
• (Co)funding and financial incentives (Fundeb, FNDE, Plano de Ações
Articuladas)
• Pacts and Goals (National Education Plan)
• Monitoring (School Census, IDEB)
• Collective Actors
• Undime – National Body of education municipal secretaries
• Consed – National Body of education state secretaries