Ministry of Integration and Regional Development

Responsibilities

The ministry oversees following responsibilities:

• Formulate and conduct the integrated national development policy
• Formulate regional development plans and programs
• Establish integration strategies for regional economies
• Establish guidelines and priorities in the application of resources from financing programs referred to in the Federal Constitution
• Establish guidelines and priorities in the application of resources from the Amazon Development Fund and the Northeast Development Fund
• Establish norms for compliance with the financing programs of constitutional funds and the budgetary schedules of regional investment funds
• Monitor and evaluate integrated national development programs
• Civil defense
• Works against droughts and water infrastructure
• Formulate and conduct the national irrigation policy
• Public works in border strips