A política de assistência social no contexto rural: desafios à implemen tação e ao acesso.

Abstract

The aforementioned work entitled "The social assistance policy in the rural context: challenges to implementation and access" seeks to analyze whether and how access of the rural population to the social assistance policy occurs and how it is being implemented in rural territory, when planning and organizing social assistance actions, as well as understanding the challenges of this implementation and its access. The methodology used in the construction of this work is qualitative in nature. Bibliographic research was used, as well as field research, which took place through the application of semi­structured questionnaires to three professionals who work in the social assistance equipment CRAS, and seven rural residents in the municipality of São Domingos­PB. The information obtained in this research shows that the social assistance policy through the incorporation of territorialization in its organization is aimed at seeking greater coverage of social protection in the territories. However, some challenges are posed for the implementation of services and their access for this population group, such as the difficulty of moving between urban and rural areas, reduced number of staff, absence of socio­territorial indicators in the municipality, difficulty in intersectoral work among other policies public services.