Transforming partnerships in Brazil
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Latin America Regional
Strategy 2004-2007  (298
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Latin America has high levels of persistent and severe poverty, with 132
million people living on less than $2 per day. Inequality is
severe, and is fuelled by widespread social, political and economic exclusion.
Our regional programme recognises that Brazil - as the largest and most
populous country in the region - has a key role to play.
Brazil is an international player which is promoting public policy reform
across the region. So our aim is to help Brazil and its neighbours to share
lessons in development policy and innovation to achieve faster progress against
the Millennium Development Goals. Our work recently has focused on using our
influence and expertise to support Latin American governments to learn from each
other and from others to reduce poverty. We work with the Inter American
Development Bank, the World Bank (who together spent $2.8 billion in Brazil in
2005) and other donors to improve the co-ordination
of that work. The three case studies below show how DFID works with
government and international organisations in Brazil as part of our regional
commitment to Latin America.
 Development
progress in Brazil (World Bank)
HIV and AIDS: a regional success story
 There
are 1.8 million people living with HIV and AIDS in Latin America, including
580,000 women, with a prevalence of 0.6% (UNAIDS, December 2005) and 200,000 new
infections a year.
It sounds bad, and it is. But take Brazil, by far the largest and most
populous country in the region. In the mid-1990s, it was projected that there
would be 1.2 million Brazilians living with HIV by 2000. That didn’t happen because, in recent years, Brazil has developed an
international reputation for its success in tackling HIV and AIDS.
Now, with DFID’s support and influence, that leadership and experience is
being shared with other Latin American countries, where HIV prevalence and
access to treatment and care is a far bigger problem.
Reducing poverty through cash transfers
 The
Brazilian income transfer scheme - known as conditional cash transfer (CCT) -
gives poor people receiving a monthly cash allowance from the government.
DFID, in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and
through the Regional Inequality Facility, are promoting dialogue and knowledge
sharing on the issue of social protection for poor families with several African
countries.
Case
study on cash transfers
Gender and race: creating partnerships for inclusion in Brazil
 Did
you know that in Brazil, nearly three times as many black women as white women
die from the complications of pregnancy and childbirth? Poor women continue to suffer from multiple
processes of exclusion.
And for black people in Brazil, racial discrimination has been a major
obstacle to accessing equal economic, social and political opportunities.
Maternal mortality and equality are key areas of DFID's regional strategy.
Find out how DFID is helping Brazil overcome the institutional barriers faced by
women and ethnic minorities, and how our work has evolved into a regional
learning network on gender.
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