CISTERN POLICY IN THE RURAL NORTHEAST: AN ANALYSIS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TRAINING

Abstract

Public policies for rural areas mostly follow the expansion of agribusiness, where those that aim to reduce poverty, most of the time, treat this phenomenon in a one-dimensional way, usually as insufficient income, which leads to flawed intervention mechanisms. Apart from this aspect, perceptions of well-being of poor people in rural areas are linked to the environment and subsistence conditions, in which environmental phenomena affect groups in poverty more intensely and generate different vulnerability for each person. Because it presents this temporal dynamic, vulnerability is difficult to conceptualize and evaluate. Having the above, this work intends to analyze the importance, based on the expansion of capacities, of public policies aimed at access to water through cisterns as promoters of increased freedom with regard to human development. Amartya Sen's development as freedom will be used to think about the relationship between poverty, vulnerability, political and social emancipation in the design and implementation of public policies that seek to address the economic and social ills of those affected by drought.