Brazil

Jul 12, 2024

The G20 presidency gives Brazil a platform to further its influence and focus on its priorities of sustainable development, economic recovery, digital transformation and global health. In the process, it consults CSOs and aims for more transparency.

Jul 12, 2024

Brazil began to push for nonprofit transparency in the late 20th century and, most notably, in the 1990s and early 2000s during a period of democratization, modernization and accountability. Today, as this process of improving regulation, technological capacity and recent reform of nonprofit partnership law continues, CiSoRise remains committed to making a major contribution to the evolution.

Jul 08, 2024

While the Brazilian government and the military continue to play a critical role in the ongoing response to this year’s floods in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have been at the forefront of providing immediate aid, emergency shelters, the distribution of relief and support to the region’s long-term recovery.

Jul 08, 2024

Brazil launched a new, voluntary Green Seal program to identify sustainable products and services and to promote Brazil’s green and circular economy as a basis of innovation and global leadership and competitiveness.

Jul 03, 2024

You may have noticed that participatory budgeting (PB), which allows communities to directly influence how public funds are spent, is in the news again because it’s spreading. Cities, towns, and organizations across the globe use PB to increase transparency and civic engagement. But did you know PB originated in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1989?

Apr 03, 2024

On March 12, President Silva updated Brazil’s regulation of partnerships with CSOs to improve the management of public resources and to democratize access to partnership policy.