The Aldir Blanc National Policy for Culture Promotion (PNAB) begins to receive, on Tuesday (15), adhesions from states and municipalities interested in receiving federal transfers in the next four years. The Ordinance, with the rules for the next PNAB cycles, was published on Monday (14), in Official Gazette of the Union.
To receive federal resources, states, municipalities and the Federal District (DF) must present their action plan by May 26, through the TransfeReGov platform.
PNAB was created in 2022 with a budget of R $ 15 billion, to be used in cultural projects by 2028. In the first cycle of the program, in 2023, all states, the DF and 98% of municipalities joined politics and received R $ 3 billion to invest in local cultural initiatives.
Last year, there were no transfers and the program was reformulated through a provisional measure. Therefore, there is still $ 12 billion available for PNAB. This year’s funds were guaranteed in the Union Budget, sanctioned last Friday (11).
“The rules of adhesion and application of resources to the next cycle of the National Aldir Blanc policy were defined with wide mobilization of the Ministry of Culture (MinC) and with the participation of representative entities. We want this new stage to be a success, as it was in the first cycle. Aldir Blanc is a structuring policy for our culture and the publication of the new ordinance begins the period in which we will work intensely so that no entity is left with the reasons.” Culture, Margareth Menezes.
From this second phase, the municipalities that join Aldir Blanc ensure the receipt of resources for the next four years, with the contributions being made at the beginning of each cycle, which lasts one year.
However, to receive the funds from the next cycle, the federative entity must have executed at least 60% of the resources of the previous cycle. To receive the first installment of resources this year, it is necessary to prove that it performed 60% of the funds received in the first cycle in 2023.
“Let’s assume that municipality X has within its stock, the law of the law, R $ 400 thousand. These R $ 400 thousand are divided into four cycles of R $ 100 thousand. It will make multiannual adhesion for the next four cycles. But on June 1st, we will make the measurement and verify that it reached the minimum execution of the first cycle in which it received the appeal. [em 2023]. If you have reached, it will receive the account of $ 100,000 to which it is entitled, ”explains MinC’s Deputy Executive Secretary, Cassius Rosa, who also coordinates PNAB’s management committee.
According to Rosa, however, even if the municipality has not reached the minimum limit of execution of the funds, it will not lose access to resources, but the funds will be retained until the next cycle, when a new measurement will be done.
Federative entities that have their funds withdrawn by a cycle may redeem this money even after 2028. Another criterion to receive the resources of this new phase is that the State or Municipality make its own investments in culture.
“We want to prevent some entity from making a divestment of their own resource, replacing the appeal that their management historically contributed to culture with the PNAB resource,” says Rosa.
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According to him, PNAB gives predictability in this cycle of four years for the execution of cultural policies by states and municipalities. “Policy establishes a series of guidelines and actions that can be developed. And they are the widest possible, all of which are obviously linked to cultural activities. But ranges from construction, renovation and restoration of cultural equipment, to direct promotion to the performance of cultural agents at the end.”
There is a mandatory states and municipalities to invest at least 10% of resources in the implementation of the National Living Culture Policy and 20% in works in the modalities of the Territory of Culture Program, which is part of the new Growth Acceleration Program (PAC).
Municipalities that receive values equal to or over R $ 360 thousand need to allocate at least 25% of resources to the implementation of the National Policy of Living Culture. The idea is, in this new phase of PNAB, is to reach the totality of states and municipalities. “Investing in culture, besides the symbolic aspect, of citizenship construction, is also an important vector for economic development,” concludes the secretary.
