The briefing was co-authored by Alice Amorim, Associate – Gestão de Interesse Público (Public Interest Management)
These reports are:
- Brazil as an international actor presents the domestic debate on Brazil as a provider of development cooperation.
- Transparency in Brazil provides an overview of domestic initiatives to enhance transparency, foster access to information and disseminate open data in Brazil, in particular on public resource-focused activities.
Key points:
- Brazil’s successes in reducing domestic poverty drives attention to its development cooperation
- Changes in Brazil’s foreign policy affect its development cooperation
- This is a new policy space in Brazil, but engagement is growing
- The priority is to make foreign relations a public policy, including better accountability and institutions
- Transparency is a tool for better dialogue on public policy
- A strong national constituency is needed
- Overlap between the development cooperation and domestic transparency communities is very limited
- Availability of data and information on domestic issues is vast in Brazil
- Existing regulation is satisfactory, but needs implementing fully
- Inclusive decision-making is at the top of the national agenda
- Priorities and backgrounds vary among CSOs, but collaboration is frequent
Development cooperation and transparency in Brazil is available in Portuguese
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