IPEA – CSO Map Update

About the organization

The Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) is a federal public foundation affiliated with the Ministry of Planning and Budget, dedicated to producing studies, research, and evidence to improve the formulation, monitoring, and evaluation of public policies in Brazil. Its work provides technical and institutional support to the Brazilian State on economic, social, and fiscal issues, contributing to more strategic government decisions and the strengthening of public debate. Within the context of the partnership, Ipea acts as the technical partner responsible for the Civil Society Organizations Map, a platform intended to integrate data on partnerships between subnational entities and CSOs.

Socioeconomic Context

The project is part of a national context marked by a strong demand for more transparent, integrated, and evidence-oriented public policies, especially in the face of persistent and significant socioeconomic inequalities. In this environment, Civil Society Organizations play a strategic role in implementing social actions and extending the reach of services and initiatives across diverse territories; the CSO Map itself identified 879,326 active organizations in the country by 2023, reinforcing the scale and relevance of this ecosystem. However, the availability of data on partnerships and public transfers remains a bottleneck for monitoring, accountability, and decision-making, especially at the subnational level. Therefore, support for Ipea is justified as an investment in public data infrastructure: the project aims to map, collect, and automate information on resources allocated to CSOs by subnational entities, particularly states, covering all 27 federative units, in addition to integrating microdata from partnerships established by states and capital cities into the CSO Map, strengthening transparency, social control, and evidence-based policy formulation.

Project objective

To strengthen the relationship between the State and Civil Society Organizations, increasing transparency, institutional coordination, and the production of high-quality data on public partnerships with CSOs. To this end, the support seeks to enable the collection, organization, and automation of information on state budget transfers and partnerships established by Federative Units and capital cities, integrating this microdata into the CSO Map. The initiative also intends to structure databases, support dialogue with state governments, and create visualization mechanisms that facilitate the monitoring of partnerships, the analysis of the volume of resources allocated to CSOs, and the formulation of evidence-based public policies.

Projects

Dialogue with public policies

The project involves direct dialogue with the public sector, especially through technical cooperation with IPEA and coordination with state agencies, Federative Units, and capital cities for the collection, integration, and automation of data on partnerships with Civil Society Organizations. The goal is to strengthen the CSO Map, increase public transparency, improve the monitoring of partnerships, and support evidence-based public policies. There is no express provision for advocacy to create new laws, but there is a clear agenda for institutional strengthening and the improvement of existing public arrangements in the State–CSO relationship.