An assessment of the Decentralized Management Index of Bolsa Família Program

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the number of participating families in the Bolsa Família program (BFP) in the Northeast municipalities and their respective indicators of evaluation of BFP - the subcomponents of Index Operation Factor of Decentralized Management (IDM). We used Pearson Correlation coefficient with data from 1705 counties. The correlations with statistically meaning were between the number of families of the BFP and all the subcomponents of the IDM, among IDM health and other subcomponents of IDM, and between IDM education and Registration Update. The conclusion is that a greater number of families benefited from the BFP leads to a decrease of its monitoring indicators, which points to the fragility of management in municipalities, creating a major challenge for BFP' articulation with other important actions, such as health and education.