CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de NÃvel Superior / Este estudo compara a focalizacÃo do PBF (Programa Bolsa FamÃlia) no Nordeste sob os aspectos da pobreza monetÃria e da pobreza multidimensional utilizando a PNAD 2012, bem como analisa a incidÃncia das mesmas. Acerca da pobreza monetÃria, os domicÃlios com renda per capita abaixo de meio salÃrio mÃnimo foram classificados como pobres. Os domicÃlios pobres multidimensionais foram identificados atravÃs da metodologia proposta por Alkire e Foster (2009), que se baseia na Abordagem das CapacitaÃÃes. Estimaram-se dois modelos logit para averiguar as caracterÃsticas socioeconÃmicas domiciliares que impactam na probabilidade de identificaÃÃo dos domicÃlios como pobres. Os resultados indicam uma alta incidÃncia da pobreza no Nordeste sob as duas abordagens utilizadas, cerca de 40%. Constatou-se que a maior proporÃÃo de crianÃas e/ou idosos torna o domicÃlio mais vulnerÃvel à pobreza monetÃria e multidimensional. Por fim, verificou-se um pior desempenho da focalizaÃÃo do PBF quando se considera a pobreza um fenÃmeno multidimensional. / This study compares the targeting of the Bolsa Famlia Program (BFP) in the Nordeste under the aspects of monetary poverty and multidimensional poverty using the PNAD 2012, and analyzes the headcount ratio of the same. About monetary poverty, households with per capita income below half the minimum wage were classied as poor. The multidimensional poor households were identied through the methodology proposed by Alkire and Foster (2009), which is based on the Capability Approach. We estimated two logit models to investigate the household socioeconomic characteristics that impact the likelihood of identifying households as poor. The results indicate a high headcount ratio of poverty in the Nordeste under the two approaches used, about 40

A noção de desenvolvimento rural aqui apresentada tem como fundamento a Abordagem das Capacitações, proposta por Amartya Sen. O desenvolvimento é ético e multidimensional, e envolve a necessidade de se enfrentar a pobreza e a vulnerabilidade. A pobreza é tida como a falta de liberdade para as pessoas levarem a vida que julgam ser a melhor. A vulnerabilidade é uma situação sócio-econômica na qual a pessoa está piorando a sua situação de bem-estar e tende a acentuar isto mediante um fator exógeno. A pobreza e a vulnerabilidade estão próximas, mas não são a mesma coisa: a vulnerabilidade está no limiar da pobreza, assim a pessoa que está mais vulnerável tende a ficar pobre, ou se já é, pode ter sua pobreza intensificada. Como fator exógeno que tende a aumentar a vulnerabilidade e a pobreza foi estudado o caso da seca no noroeste do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, mais propriamente no município de Santo Cristo. A seca é um fenômeno sócio-econômico que começa em uma situação prévia de vulnerabilidade, já vivida pelas pessoas, e que tende a acentuar a pobreza e a vulnerabilidade com a estiagem e suas decorrentes conseqüências. Para dar conta da multidimensionalidade e complexidade desses fatores, sua análise foi feita a partir da Abordagem das Capacitações, que vai contra a abordagem econômica tradicional e resgata a diferença entre meios e fins. Foram aplicados, in loco, questionários com agricultores familiares do município, elaborados a partir das referências bibliográficas. Temse que, em razão da degradação ambiental, a seca afeta os intitulamentos e os funcionamentos das pessoas. Assim, a seca não é um fenômeno ambiental isolado e sim um fenômeno sócioeconômico, que envolve a vulnerabilidade e a pobreza como fatores desencadeadores. Propõese, então, que a análise de desenvolvimento rural considere a vulnerabilidade a pobreza da região como premissa para obter desenvolvimento. / In this research, the notion of rural development is founded in the Capability Approach, suggested by Amartya Sen. The development is ethics and multidimensional, and ivolves the necessity of facing poverty and vulnerability. The poverty is considered the absence of freedom to the people follow the best way of life they consider. The vulnerability is a socio-economic circumstance in that the person is having his welfare situation each time worse and tends to make that more evident from an exogenous element. The poverty and vulnerability are complementary ideas; however, they are not the same thing: vulnerability is a condition to the poverty. In the other words, if a person, or a family, is more vulnerable to the exogenous events, he tends to get poorer. Or, if he is already poor, can get still poorer. In this dissertation, it was studied the case of drought occurred in the North Western of Rio Grande do Sul State, more specifically in Santo Cristo city, as the exogenous element that tends to make increase vulnerability and poverty. The drought is a socio-economic phenomenon. It starts in a previous vulnerability situation, that people have already lived, and that tends to make vulnerability and poverty that more emphasized, from dryness and its consequence. To analyze the multidimensionality and the complexity of these factors, the analysis was made from Capability Approach that contests the traditional economic approach and recovers the difference between means and ends. To make this research it was applied, in loco, questionnaires to family farmers placed in the mentioned county. The questions were structured having as base bibliographic references used in the dissertation. It was seen that the drought affects people’s entitlements and the functionings, because of environment degradation. So, the drought is not an isolated environmental phenomenon, but a socioeconomic phenomenon, that evolves vulnerability and poverty as resultant factors. Then, the suggestion is that rural development analysis considers the regional vulnerability and poverty as premise to obtain development.

Nas últimas três décadas, a proporção de pessoas abaixo da linha de pobreza foi reduzida substancialmente no Brasil. Parte desta redução ocorreu em função de programas de transferência de renda do país, como o Programa Bolsa Família (PBF), criado em 2004 e que beneficia, atualmente, mais de 12 milhões de famílias pobres e extremamente pobres. O objetivo desta dissertação é discutir o desenho e os impactos deste programa a partir de uma análise baseada na abordagem das capacitações. Para isto são apresentados os conceitos fundamentais referentes à abordagem das capacitações e ao pensamento de Amartya Sen, bem como as principais características do Bolsa Família, seus antecedentes e os impactos provocados nas áreas da educação, saúde, alimentação, trabalho, empoderamento das mulheres e pobreza. Estes impactos e o desenho do PBF são analisados a partir do instrumental obtido através do estudo da abordagem das capacitações. Ademais, são apresentadas algumas propostas ao Bolsa Família visando a atuação deste programa sobre as múltiplas dimensões responsáveis pelo fenômeno da pobreza. / In the last three decades, the proportion of people below the poverty line was reduced substantially in Brazil. Part of this reduction was due to income transfer programs in the country, as the Bolsa Família Program (PBF), established in 2004 and currently aiding more than 12 million poor and extremely poor families. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the design and the impacts of this program from an analysis based on the capabilities approach. Therefore, it’s bring forward the fundamental concepts concerning the capabilities approach and the Amartya Sen’s work as well as the main characteristics of the Bolsa Família, its antecedents and impacts caused in education, health, food, work, empowerment of women and poverty. These impacts and the design of PBF are examined from the instrumental obtained through the capabilities approach. Futhermore, some proposals are introduce in order to Bolsa Familia Program operate on the multiple dimensions that cause poverty.

O objetivo geral desta dissertação é defender que as religiões e os argumentos religiosos tenham um espaço no debate da definição de bem e justiça para a sociedade e para o desenvolvimento humano. Por isso faz se necessário debater as relações das teorias filosóficas do Utilitarismo de Jeremy Bentham, da Justiça como Equidade de John Rawls e da Abordagem da Capacitação de Amartya Sen com as religiões. Também é necessário repelir os argumentos que estas filosofias apresentam para que as religiões não participem do debate de bem comum, de justiça e para o desenvolvimento humano. Por fim será apresentado o Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano das Religiões (IDH-R), que segue a mesma metodologia utilizada pelo Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento para compor o IDH em seus relatórios de desenvolvimento humano, e se buscará explicar os motivos das variações do IDH-R entre as diferentes religiões. / The general objective of this dissertation is to argue that religions and religious arguments have a place in the discussion of the definition of good and justice to society and to human development. So it makes it necessary to discuss the relationship of philosophical theories the Utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham, the Justice as Fairness of John Rawls and the Capability Approach of Amartya Sen with religions. It is also necessary to repel the arguments that these philosophies have that religions do not participate in the discussion of the common good, justice and human development. Finally will be presented the Human Development Index of Religions (HDI-R), which follows the same methodology used by the United Nations Development to compose the HDI in its human development reports, and seek to explain the reasons for variations HDI-R among different religions.

Orientador: Prof. Dr. Arilson da Silva Favareto / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal do ABC. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Energia, São Bernardo do Campo, 2018. / A literatura voltada à construção de Usinas Hidrelétricas (UHEs) é ampla, mas peca por normalmente tomar o território que a recebe como um mero receptor no processo de sua entrada, tendo seu foco em grande parte nos impactos negativos e no curto prazo. Esta pesquisa apresenta uma abordagem na qual o território é compreendido como capaz de refratar e absorver determinados efeitos desta infraestrutura, ou seja, busca-se compreender de que forma se dá a relação entre o território e a UHE. O princípio que norteia esta pesquisa é o de que a configuração do território tem peso fundamental, uma vez que a dimensão e a diversidade de agentes nas coalizões locais pode influenciar a forma como esta relação será estabelecida, e isso depende do quão restrita é a liberdade de agência e, assim, da participação social. A pesquisa foi conduzida nos territórios do Sertão do São Francisco, onde está instalada da UHE Sobradinho, e no Alto Uruguai, onde está a UHE Machadinho. A escolha destes territórios se deu pelo fato de que suas propostas de entrada de UHE ocorreram em um período muito próximo, e por possuírem trajetórias profundamente distintas. Foram realizados um movimento diacrônico, com vistas a caracterizar a configuração de cada território antes da entrada de sua UHE, como seu deu esse processo, e a configuração atual de cada um destes territórios, e um movimento sincrônico, com o propósito de comparar os resultados dos processos de entrada das UHEs entre os territórios. Os resultados indicam que no caso do Sertão do São Francisco, onde a configuração territorial era de grande concentração de poder, houve a formação de coalizões restritas, sendo a participação social dos atingidos suprimida, resultando na apropriação das oportunidades econômicas, sociais e políticas por parte de pequenos grupos, e o ônus sofridos pelos agentes com menor poder. No outro extremo, no Alto Uruguai a configuração territorial apresentava uma maior desconcentração de poder, o que permitiu a formação de uma ampla coalizão, o que tendo como resultados a diminuição dos efeitos negativos, e as oportunidades econômicas, sociais e políticas menos concentradas. / The scientific production about the construction of hydropower plants (HPPs) is broad, but it often fails by considering the territory that receives the infrastructure as a mere receptor in the process of its entry, focusing on the negative impacts and in short term. This research presents an approach in which the territory is understood as capable of refracting and absorbing certain effects of this infrastructure, that is, it seeks to understand how the relationship between the territory and the HPP occurs. The guiding principle of this research is that the territorial configurarion is fundamental because of the size and the diversity of agents in the local coalitions can influence how this relationship will be estabilished, and that depends on how restricted the freedom of agency is, and thus of social participation. The research was conducted in the territories of the Sertão do São Francisco, where it is installed the Sobradinho HPP, and in Alto Uruguai, where the HPP Machadinho is located. The choice of these territories was due to the fact that their proposals for the construction of the HPP occurred in a very near period, and because they have trajectories with deep differences. A diachronic movement was carried out in order to characterize the configuration of each territory before the entrance of its HPP, how this process occured, and the current configuration of each one, and a synchronic movement, with the aim of comparing the results of the processes of entry of the HPPs between the territories. The results shows that in the case of the Sertão do São Francisco, where the territorial configuration was of a big concentration of power, there was the formation of restricted coalitions, with the social participation of those affected being suppressed, resulting in the appropriation of economic, social and political opportunities by small groups, and the burden suffered by agents with less power. At the other extreme, in the Alto Uruguai the territorial configuration presented a bigger deconcentration of power, which allowed the formation of a broader coalition, which results in the reduction of negative effects, and the less concentrated economic, social and political opportunities.

To learn more about how higher education can contribute to economic development through the development of the business perspective in the agricultural sector, this study has been conducted from the point of views of students, graduates and lecturers of the Agribusiness program at the University for Development Studies, UDS, in Tamale, northern Ghana. Although several quantitative studies on the Ghanaian universities’ role for development have been conducted, there is a research gap within this qualitative field. From a social-constructivist perspective, it is crucial to understand the social context, why a qualitative research with open ended interviews proved to be beneficial. The findings have been analysed by the Capability Approach through the perspectives of Relative Deprivation and Knowledge Based Views of Organisations. The result of the study clarifies the importance of paying attention to the capability of the students, the farmers and the region where the higher education is offered. It is also clear from the result that there is a gap between the expectations of the students and the lecturers on the outcome of the education and the actual output. Hence, the Relative Deprivation theory served applicable for the Agribusiness program at UDS. Furthermore, the research reveals the significance of that the institutional conditions, such as financial institutions, are developed to enable the region to benefit from the education programmes.

Magister Artium (Social Work) - MA(SW) / This thesis explores the personal, social and environmental factors of caregivers from the Groblershoop community to determine whether these factors influence the caregiver’s ability to provide care to children from birth to six years. Using the Human Capabilities Approach and the Ethics of Care Perspective, this study seeks to examine the resources that are available for caring in Groblershoop. It also explores how the factors above (personal, social and environmental) play a role in how the resources are used by caregivers to increase the well-being of children under six years. The Human Capabilities Perspective purports that caregiving resources are not an end in itself. The resources are only as valuable as they are able to improve the functioning of the caregivers to provide care and assist in ensuring the well-being of the care receivers, namely the children. The Ethics of Care Perspective is used to examine the consequences of inadequate care by the State, community and caregivers themselves.This study was conducted among caregivers from the community of Groblershoop, which is 150km from the main town of Upington in the Northern Cape Province. The town is rural in nature and unemployment, poverty and social ills such as substance abuse and teenage pregnancies are rife. Work is largely seasonal in nature and is found mainly on the surrounding grape and cattle farms. This study is qualitative in nature and used a purposive sampling method. Ten caregivers were selected using the criteria that they must reside in the community of Groblershoop and must be the primary caregiver to children from birth to six years of age, to participate in the semi-structured interviews. Seven other caregivers were also selected using the same criteria above to participate in a focus group interview using participatory action learning techniques. Participant Observation was conducted in the homes of three caregivers that participated in the individual interviews. Additionally, seven individual interviews were conducted with service providers that provide services to the community of Groblershoop.The main findings of the study reflect that the personal, social and environmental factors do influence the caregiver’s ability to provide care to children from birth to six years among a small group of caregivers from the Groblershoop community. The personal factors explored in the study included the age, gender, health status, substance usage, educational level and income of the caregiver. Ill health was found to be a key factor which posed a challenge to caregivers in terms of being able to provide care to children. The World Health Organisation’s five key elements of care was used to provide a framework for assessing adequate caregiving. These factors were sustenance, stimulation, support, structure and surveillance. Factors such as educational levels were closely linked to income levels. The higher the educational level the better the income for the caregiver. The Child Support Grant was a major source of income for the majority of caregivers. Low levels of income also meant that the caregivers were unable to provide adequate nutrition to children.The social factors focused on in this study was public policies which make provision for care resources, parenting practice, support systems, and the gender practices of caregivers. The consequences of inadequate care were examined through focusing on the children and the associated developmental delays experienced by them. The study found that while good public policies exists not enough resources were available to enable these policies to increase the well-being of people at community level. The lack of resources available for caring in the Groblershoop community impacted on parenting practices of caregivers. Caregivers in this study, due to the lack of resources as well as other factors such as limited knowledge of child care, resulted in care being considered inadequate using the World Health Organisation’s five elements of care. Gender practices among the caregivers are based on the stereotypical gender roles which sanction the ideology of patriarchy. Women are the primary caregivers and the biological fathers were absent from the caring process. The environmental factors that were explored in this study were the climate, the physical home environment and the neighbourhood condition. Due to the excessive summer heat and the harsh cold of winter, physical activity and movement in the community is severely hampered. During summer, families sleep outside as the housing structures are built in a way that retains the heat and is freezing in the winter. Dwellings are small and typically compromises of a big room sub-divided by the family themselves. No ablution facilities are available inside dwellings and some homes still make use of chemical toilets and pit latrines.Crime and violence is closely linked to the alcohol usage at the local shebeens. These factors impact on caregiving as the environment with the lack of facilities and the harsh climate lends itself to fostering of illnesses amongst children.The study concludes that the personal, social and environmental factors significantly influence the caregiver’s ability to provide care to children from birth to six years in Groblershoop. To assist the development of children, it is essential that the above factors are considered as they influence the ability of the caregiver to use resources to achieve wellbeing. The findings of this study provides a good argument for an integrated coordinated approach to service delivery which takes into account the distinct challenges of rural communities, with regards to their distance from urban centres and the current lack of infrastructure within these communities. The study highlights the importance of focusing on how resources can effectively improve the quality of life of caregivers in communities as opposed to just making resources available and ensuring uptake. As this study demonstrates through the Human Capabilities lens, that resources alone do not result in people being able to live the lives they value. Ensuring that they are able to convert the resources into wellbeing should be the focus of how the State evaluates the effectiveness of programmes. November 2009

There is much said about how to support a client as a social worker. Much is based on the country's politics, structure, organization, norms, but also on the values, knowledge, and responsiveness of social workers. When a country is exposed to poverty, social work takes a certain kind of shape and direction based on several viewpoints. The world has its eyes on developing countries with many poverty reduction recommendations, but how do social workers, living and working in a country with high poverty, express their reality?                       This study aims to, in a Philippine context, examine professional social workers perception of poverty and identify their approach to poverty alleviation and clients living in poverty. A qualitative study, with eight semi-structured interviews was hold plus one group interview including two respondents. All respondents were professional social workers that worked with poverty reduction in various ways. The thematic analysis was made with the framework of Human Development and Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach theory. The result shows that the efforts to reduce poverty in the Philippines require long-term thinking where respondents' mostly have the task of changing communities and clients' values. The respondents’ perceptions of poverty is that it is a condition that can be changed as long as the individual living in poverty makes active choices. The conclusions show that the major approach the respondents have, is to work with clients potentials and mindset by aware them to see what they actually can do for themselves. Almost all of the respondents use their own background as a motivator to support clients out of poverty and they approach their clients with patience, attention, belonging, and love, which can lead to minimizing obstacles that may be in the way of increasing the well-being of clients. On the other hand, the results show that it is the individual's responsibility to change his or her situation and a common perception among the respondents' is that education is the key to reduce poverty.

O estudo tenta investigar quais são as fontes de privações que impedem a expansão das liberdades dos agricultores familiares no semiárido norte-mineiro e se a presença do Microcrédito Produtivo Rural (o Agroamigo) e dos Programas de Formação e Mobilização para a Convivência com o Semiárido: Um Milhão de Cisternas Rurais (P1MC/P1 +2) apresenta alguma eficácia com vistas à redução dos níveis de privações destes agricultores. A hipótese central que guia o itinerário deste trabalho tenta confirmar que as políticas e programas voltados para a região do semiárido norte-mineiro, mesmo que articulados, ainda são insuficientes para causar grandes efeitos na agricultura familiar. O que se observa também é a falta, por parte dos agricultores, de uma formação contextualizada para conviver com o semiárido por meio da adoção de tecnologias apropriadas e de estratégias para o enfrentamento à seca. O estudo demandou como aportes teóricos o pensamento crítico do semiárido e a abordagem das capacitações com a finalidade de explicar a realidade da base empírica. Para tanto, foram coletadas 92 amostras em seis comunidades rurais no município de Januária/MG, cujos dados foram operacionalizados e, posteriormente, analisados com base na abordagem das capacitações. A construção do Índice de Liberdade do Agricultor Familiar no Semiárido Norte-Mineiro (ILAF-SAM) deu suporte para mensurar os níveis de privações identificadas nos grupos de funcionamentos de cada liberdade instrumental. Os resultados revelaram ILAF-SAM muito baixo (0,387) na liberdade “A formação contextualizada e a convivência com o semiárido norte-mineiro”, enquadrando-se no nível extremamente alto de privação de liberdade para os agricultores conviverem com o fenômeno da seca. As oportunidades sociais (ILAF-SAM = 0,599), as facilidades econômicas (ILAF-SAM = 0,598), a segurança protetora (ILAF = 0,502) e as garantias de transparência (ILAF-SAM = 0,640), compuseram as principais fontes de privações que cerceiam os agricultores de ampliarem as suas liberdades. Observou-se também fraca articulação entre os programas de convivência e o Microcrédito Produtivo Rural a fim de reduzir as fontes de privações dos agricultores familiares. Mesmo assim, os resultados encontrados em algumas variáveis, isoladamente, foram relevantes no sentido de complementar este estudo e abrir novas perspectivas de pesquisas no semiárido norte-mineiro. / The study attempts to investigate what are the sources of deprivations that prevent the expansion of the freedoms of family farmers in the semiarid of northern Minas Gerais and whether the presence of the Rural Productive Microcredit (Agroamigo) and of the Training and Mobilization Programs for Coexistence with Semiarid Conditions: One Million Rural Cisterns (P1MC/P1 +2) has some efficacy in reducing the levels of deprivation of these farmers. The central hypothesis guiding the itinerary of this paper tries to confirm that policies and programs for the semiarid region of the northern Minas Gerais, even when conjoined, are insufficient to cause major positive effects on family farming. What is also observed is the lack, on the part of the farmers, of a contextualized training for living in the semiarid through the adoption of appropriate technologies and strategies for coping with drought. The study demanded as theoretical supports the critical thinking of the semiarid and the capabilities approach in order to explain the reality of the empirical basis. Therefore, 92 samples were collected in six rural communities in the municipality of Januária / MG, whose data were operationalized and subsequently analyzed using the capabilities approach. The construction of the Index of Freedom of the Family Farmer in the semiarid northern Minas Gerais (ILAFSAM) supported measuring the levels of deprivation identified in the groups of each instrumental freedom. The results revealed a very low (0.387) ILAF-SAM for the freedom "Contextualized training and coexistence with the semiarid northern Minas Gerais", characterizing an extremely high level of deprivation of freedom for farmers to live with the phenomenon of drought. Social opportunities (ILAF-SAM = 0.599), the economic possibilities (ILAF-SAM = 0.598), protective security (ILAF = 0.502) and guarantees of transparency (ILAF-SAM = 0.640), along with the previous one, composed the main sources of deprivation that curtail farmers from extending their freedoms.We also observed weak connections between these programs for living with the semiarid and the Rural Productive Microcredit with the aim of reducing the sources of deprivations for family farmers.Even so, the results in some isolated variables were relevant in order to complement this study and open new perspectives for research in the semiarid northern Minas Gerais.

The World Tourism Organization identifies improving linkages and opportunities in the tourism sector as a key area in the field of sustainable economic development. Swisscontact’s project Empodera aims at the improvement of well-being of indigenous women and youth via economic development. The main challenge of this project is seen in the weak entrepreneurial networks and lack of collaboration. This thesis is written as part Empodera and focuses on the linkages between the entrepreneurial indigenous women and the tourism sector in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala and the entrepreneurial opportunities for well-being improvement. The strong sustainability approach and the capability approach form the theoretical framework of this thesis. A social network analysis on all three levels of sustainable development is used to understand how the indigenous women are connected to the tourism activities in the area, to information and support and to natural capital. Two focus groups are conducted to identify entrepreneurial opportunities and well-being needs. The results show a weak formal social-economic network, the indigenous women are not involved in the tourism activities in Alta Verapaz. The women have a very strong social-ecological network and use natural resources for their entrepreneurial activities. The focus groups show that the women mostly need a richer social network, creativity, selfconfidence and organisation for both well-being improvement and entrepreneurial development. To enable the women to be entrepreneurial active, the focus should thus lie on developing these aspects rather than on official skill development.