📋 Tender Overview
Bolsa Verde, a public policy reference capable of aligning environmental conservation with income distribution and combating poverty, grants R 600 per quarter to families living in rural areas and committing to sustainable natural resources and preserving the forest, as well as helping to protect the areas.
The federal government program serves 56.2 thousand families, in 462 territories, especially in the Amazon region, in 109 municipalities of Acre, Alagoas, Amapa, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceara, Maranhao, Para, Pernambuco and Rondonia. In addition to quarterly payments, families have access to technical assistance actions, social and environmental rural extension, environmental conservation and socio -productive inclusion.
Beneficiaries are residents of Sustainable Use Conservation Units (extractive reserves, national forests and sustainable development reserves), environmentally different settlement projects of agrarian (forestry, agro -extractive and sustainable development) and territories occupied by traditional peoples and communities, such as riverside, extractive, indigenous, quilombolas and others.
Bolsa Verde is a Vanguarda program to be discussed regionally in Latin America and the Caribbean as a policy that brings together conservation and social protection, giving visibility to the action of those who take care of nature, said the National Secretary of Traditional Peoples and Communities and sustainable rural development of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Edel Moraes.
According to the secretary, the initiative is fundamental for the protection of natural resources, eradication of poverty and sustainable development. The program contributes to promote social inclusion and climate justice, serving families of rural and forest workers who collaborate so much to maintain ecosystem services produced by nature for all humanity, he said.
Preservation - Rosenilce dos Santos Vitor, 47, mother of five, lives in the community of Maranhao, in the Agro -extractive settlement project Lago Grande, in the rural area of Santarem (PA). Every day he wakes up early, has breakfast and goes to the forest, where he reaps brown, Bacaba and Piquia, whose seeds and oils are sold, then, at the regions fairs. In addition to guaranteeing the livelihood of the family, she also receives the financial incentive of the federal government.
During the work, Rosenilce takes all the care to keep the vegetation and other natural resources preserved. More than no one, she knows the importance of environmental protection for her own survival and quality of life, her community and the Brazilian population. Financial aid improves our lives and at the same time serves as another reason for the community not to cut trees, not burn, not dirty the rivers and keep the forest standing, he explains.
How to participate-To participate in Bolsa Verde, besides being residents of the priority areas of the program, families must have the registration updated in the Single Registry for Social Benefits (CadUnico), have income of up to half a per capita minimum wage and, finally, signing the Digital Adhesion Agreement, available on the Bolsa Verde (Bolsa.gov.br) website) or by the application for cell phones in Android and IOS systems.
Target Audience - The Bolsa Verde audience has different identities. They are, for example, riverside, fishermen, extractivists, agro -extractivists and rock. These families work in various economic activities, with extractivism being the main one, besides artisanal fishing, family farming (especially cassava and derivatives production), timber management, seed collection and fruits.
The vast majority are resident of rivers, in the rural area of Amazonian municipalities, grouped in villages of ten to 50 homes or in locations of only one or two houses. In these places, there is a whole network of traditional knowledge and practices, through the transmission of community and family knowledge, to crafts that take care of health and spirituality, such as blessings, midwives, handles and healers, as well as masters carpenters, farmers, mies and barqueiros.
