Outcome BRA_D_1.1

By 2027, Brazilian society - especially groups and people in vulnerable situations - will have greater access to quality public goods and services, digital inclusion and new technologies, greater capacity to exercise their rights and contribute to the decision-making process, free of violence and discrimination, to reduce social inequalities and promote generation equality, gender, race, and ethnicity.

In 2024, the Brazilian society continued to face meaningful challenges to promote the human rights of women and girls and their contribution to the decision-making process, to reduce social inequalities and to promote gender, race, and ethnicity equality. Despite of that, notable advancements were observed. The Brazilian Government made important progress in advancing Gender-Responsive Budgeting (GRB) and mainstreaming gender, race, and ethnicity into the 2024-2027 Pluriannual Plan (PPA), marking a historic milestone as women’s issues were included as one of the five cross-cutting agendas for the first time since the 1988 Constitution. The cross-cutting agenda spans 45 of the 88 programmes in the PPA, involving 21 ministries, with 85 objectives, 191 deliverables, and 75 institutional measures, supported by R$14.1 billion allocated in the 2024 Annual Budget Law. UN Women contributions included advocacy, technical assistance, and policy advice, driving the development of GRB methodologies and fostering institutional capacity and accountability to integrate gender equality into public financial management. The inclusion of the women’s agenda in the PPA and the allocation of dedicated resources reflect the pivotal role of UN Women in embedding gender considerations into Brazil’s budgetary frameworks. Collaboration with the Ministry of Planning and Budget, the Ministry of Women, and other federal institutions was crucial to facilitating dialogue and coordination for the adoption of GRB practices. UN Women achieved significant progress in advancing gender-sensitive climate change policies by supporting women parliamentarians, leading to the Charter of Alagoas being incorporated into the 10 th G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit (P20) final declaration. The Charter of Alagoas, developed during the 1 st G20 Women Parliamentarians’ Meeting, reaffirmed commitments to gender equality and emphasized transformative policy advocacy, focusing on the disproportionate impacts of climate change on women who face multiple forms of discrimination. UN Women provided integrated policy advice, technical assistance, and intergovernmental normative support to align the Charter with global frameworks such as CEDAW and the Paris Agreement, ensuring an intersectional perspective. The Charter’s integration into the P20 Declaration demonstrated a unified focus on gender-sensitive policies, highlighting priorities like political participation, economic empowerment, and climate resilience under Brazil’s Presidency. Collaboration with the Women’s Caucus of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies and G20 parliamentarians was instrumental in drafting, aligning, and adopting the Charter, ensuring global relevance and impact. UN Women has consistently driven public and political support for gender equality in politics through awareness-raising, alliance-building, constituency mobilization, and influencing electoral bodies. A milestone in this agenda was the establishment of the Observatory of Women's Political Fundamental Rights by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), to which UN Women contributed with technical assistance and policy advice. The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples (MPI) enhanced its use of communication as a strategic tool to promote the human rights of Indigenous women, which contributes to challenging stereotypes, shifting public perceptions, and advocating for policy changes. As evidence of this progress, the Ministry now implements a strategic social media plan with gender perspective and monitors its communication performance. These efforts enable continuous improvement of its strategy, enhancing the visibility of its initiatives, amplifying positive narratives about Indigenous women, and strengthening its capacity to foster transparency and accountability. This result stems from MPI enhanced communications capacities, to which UN Women contributed through direct technical support and collaboration. The MPI and the Ministry of Women strengthened participatory processes to integrate indigenous women specific needs and perspectives into their policies and strategies. For the first time, the ministries called a National Conference of Indigenous Women, enabling a higher influence of indigenous women in decision-making and policy making. This intersectional approach to the conferences is innovative and offers a unique opportunity to ensure public policies address the specific needs of Indigenous women, whose voices are often overlooked both in women’s policies (which may lack an ethnic-racial perspective) and in Indigenous policies (which may lack a gender perspective). UN Women provided technical support and policy advice to the organization of the Conference process, the mobilization of key stakeholders, and development of the pre-conferences methodology, in partnership with the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) and the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestry (ANMIGA).

By 2027, Brazilian society - especially groups and people in vulnerable situations - will have greater access to quality public goods and services, digital inclusion and new technologies, greater capacity to exercise their rights and contribute to the decision-making process, free of violence and discrimination, to reduce social inequalities and promote generation equality, gender, race, and ethnicity.

In 2025, Brazilian society continued to face significant challenges in promoting the human rights of women and girls, strengthening their participation in decision-making processes, reducing social inequalities, and advancing gender, race, and ethnicity equality. Despite these challenges, notable progress was achieved. In the year in which Brazil held the Presidency of the 30th session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP30), the country strengthened women’s participation and influence in climate-related decision-making processes, as well as the gender and racial responsiveness of environmental policies and initiatives. The Government formulated strategic policy instruments on women and climate change, including: (a) the formulation of the Integrated Women and Climate Action Plan, which establishes ten actions to be implemented by the Ministry and its partners, including UN Women; (b) the development of the Cross-cutting Strategy on Women and Climate (ETMC), to be integrated into Brazil’s National Plan on Climate Change (Climate Plan), currently under development, which operationalizes the implementation of the National Policy on Climate Change by ensuring the integration of a gender perspective into national adaptation and mitigation plans; and (c) the Guidelines for Disaster and Climate Emergency Management for Women and Girls, presented by Brazil’s COP30 Presidency to UNFCCC Member States as a proposed Plan to Accelerate Solutions (PAS) and adopted during the session. These instruments consolidate advances in the integration of gender equality into climate policies and pave the way for gender-responsive climate action in Brazil in the medium and long term. UN Women contributed to the Government’s enhanced capacity to formulate such instruments through advocacy, technical assistance, and policy advice. Additionally, women — particularly Indigenous women, women of African descent, rural women, quilombola women and women from traditional communities — had increased participation in climate policymaking and initiatives. They contributed to the formulation of the UNFCCC Gender Action Plan (GAP), adopted at COP30, through written submissions to the UNFCCC and to the Government; through participation in a technical workshop convened by the UNFCCC to support the design of GAP activities; and through targeted advocacy and stakeholder mobilization during pre-COP30 processes and the Conference itself. UN Women supported these contributions through technical assistance and advocacy, as well as by directly supporting women’s participation in pre-COP30 events and at the Conference, enabling the integration of context-specific knowledge and policy recommendations grounded in the diverse territorial realities of women. The Brazilian Government also made substantive progress in formulating policies responsive to the needs of Indigenous women by organizing the First National Conference of Indigenous Women and establishing an Interministerial Working Group to develop the country’s first National Policy of Indigenous Women. This landmark achievement in advancing inclusive and institutionalized participation enabled the meaningful engagement of more than 5,700 Indigenous women across seven territorial stages and a national plenary, alongside the direct involvement of 11 national public institutions. For the first time, Indigenous women influenced national policymaking through an official, State-recognized process, informing the development of Brazil’s first National Policy for Indigenous Women. This unprecedented participatory mechanism strengthened Indigenous women’s collective agency, enhanced coordination and dialogue between Indigenous women’s movements and the State, and contributed to the formulation of public policies and initiatives responsive to Indigenous women’s perspectives and priorities. The process also advanced Brazil’s implementation of international human rights commitments, including the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on Indigenous women’s participation in decision-making. In partnership with the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) and the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestry (ANMIGA), UN Women contributed to the Government’s enhanced capacity to advance gender-responsive policies by providing policy advice and technical support throughout the Conference process, including the development of reporting tools and the capacity-building of Indigenous women rapporteurs; the design of a large-scale consultative methodology for the national stage; and the systematization of results from each phase of the Conference, including the final outcomes approved at the national stage.