Avaliação dos resultados a nível dos outcomes do programa subsídio social básico sobre o bem-estar dos agregados familiares beneficiários: o caso do Município da Matola (2011-2016)

Abstract

This research is carried out within the scope of the disciplinary field of Public Policies and seeks make an evaluation of the results in terms of the outcomes of the Basic Social Subsidy Program (PSSB). The main objective of the research is to analyze the extent to which the objectives of the PSSB are to be achieved, that is, the aim of this research is to analyze the extent to which subsistence difficulties of indigent and temporarily hindered groups or individuals or permanently to work and achieve the satisfaction of your basic needs, were mitigated through transfers of monetary values ​​to beneficiaries of the program. However, it should be noted that this evaluation is far from being an evaluation of impact, because while the evaluation of intermediate results / outcomes, which is intended to developed in the present research, is concerned with evaluating how the objectives and goals are being achieved, an impact assessment would be concerned with analyzing up to the extent to which the target population is being affected in any way by the implementation of the program. The problem that arises first, is that the value of 310, 00 or 610, 00MZN, assigned to beneficiary households with one member and five or more members respectively, is considerably low to help create minimum conditions for survival and access, to satisfy the basic needs of the target groups in terms of situation of absolute poverty, as stipulated in one of the objectives of the PSSB; second is that the minimum wage that is considered the minimum amount that a family needs monthly to purchase a basic food basket is six times above the value assigned in the scope of the PSSB at its highest level which is of a household with five or more members. For the materialization of the research, the following techniques were used to collect information: bibliographic research, documentary research, semi-directive interview and survey by questionnaire (indirectly administered). It was possible to perceive within the scope of this research that the achievement of the objectives of the PSSB seems impossible in a circumstance in that the value attributed to the beneficiaries of the program in addition to being insignificant is made available in an irregular manner, with delays of four to five months, in a period of scenario in which some of the beneficiaries of this same program do not have any source of alternative income. The main conclusion that was reached with the present research was that the PSSB does not alter the welfare of the beneficiary households, many of the beneficiaries who evaluate the program as having a positive outcome in their lives, do not make such an assessment taking into account the reality they live in, but it is due to the perception that these individuals have on the program, that is, they look at the value that is assigned to them as being a favor that the State is doing to them and not a duty of the State towards its citizens.