The Ministry of Integration and Regional Development (, abbreviated MIDR) is a cabinet-level federal ministry in

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, established in 1999. On 1 January 2019 the Ministry of National Integration and the Ministry of Cities were merged and transformed into the Ministry of Regional Development. It was recreated on 1 January 2023.

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

List of ministers

References

External links

* {{brazil-gov-stub Integration and Regional Development Brazil, Integrationand Regional Development Long stubs with short prose