Living conditions, State and public policies
1. Poverty and citizen organization networks - a comparative study of São Paulo and Mexico City.

The research seeks to understand the functioning of civil organizations which have assumed the role of intermediaries between different public agencies and beneficiary populations of public policies aimed at combating poverty.

The aim is to understand the modus operandi — policies of alliances, the attainment and use of resources — of civil organizations dedicated to administer public funds destined for poverty alleviation.

The projects seeks to carry out a comparative analysis — in Mexico City and in Sao Paulo — of the networks of organizations that act in the field of poverty relief, in local and/or focal administration of programs, in the design and/or in the supervision of policies, or in direct intervention with private funding. In order to do so, these network analysis will be used to further explore relational information available in the database of civil organizations produced in the research Rights, Representation and Popular sectors — CEBRAP/IDS.