Outcome BRA_D_1.2

By 2027, Brazil will have advanced in economic inclusion that contributes to the reduction of poverty, hunger, vulnerabilities, inequalities, and discrimination of generation, gender, race and ethnicity, and that guarantees the right to transformative education for the full development of the person and access to decent work, opportunities for income generation, social, economic and care policy protection and resilient infrastructure, ensuring equal opportunities and sustainability.

In 2025, Brazil consolidated major policy advances that strengthened women’s economic empowerment by embedding gender equality across climate, migration, and care agendas. At COP30 in Belém, UNFCCC Parties adopted a revised Gender Action Plan (GAP) and agreed on an unprecedented Just Transition decision that centres gender equality and recognizes the care economy as integral to a fair transition. These results were informed by UN Women’s technical support during negotiations, helping Parties recognize differentiated climate impacts on women and girls, and secure gender-responsive language on policy, finance, and decent work, and also advocating for the inclusion of the care agenda by supporting the implementation of the first Care Pavilion at a COP. At the national level, Brazil advanced its leadership in the care economy. The Federal Government regulated the National Care Plan in July 2025 and launched its governance structure and action framework in December, announcing BRL 25 billion in investments across 79 initiatives. These include territorialized services such as Cuidoteca (a public service to ensure children’s care while caregivers are studying or working), public laundries, training programmes, and expanded early childhood services, reinforcing care as a social right and a driver of women’s economic autonomy.UN Women provided technical assistance throughout the Plan’s development, supporting alignment with international standards, gender-responsive budgeting, and intersectoral governance mechanisms. Among the initiatives, Belém, in the state of Pará, became the first capital in the north region to have a C uidoteca project approved, reflecting strengthened municipal engagement enabled by the Ver-o-Cuidado project implemented by UN Women. Brazil also strengthened its migration governance framework with a gender lens. In October 2025, the Federal Government enacted Decree No. 12,657, instituting the National Policy on Migration, Refuge and Statelessness (PNMRA) and setting the basis for the first National Plan on Migration, Refuge and Statelessness ( (PlaNaMIGRA), expected in 2026. UN Women’s technical support to the Ministry of Justice during the 2024 Conference that produced the proposals that are informing the Plan and during initial workshops to develop the Planhelped secure these contributions, which will guide the Plan’s final design and implementation, ensuring its gender-responsiveness. Also in 2025, Brazil hosted the First National Conference of Indigenous Women, a historic process that institutionalized Indigenous women’s participation in policy design. With UN Women support, transboundary Indigenous women had enhanced capacity to participate in the Conference and to promote a motion which explicitly calls on the Brazilian State to recognize their presence and leadership within Indigenous territories as part of the national Indigenous women’s movement. Moreover, the country also strengthened the participation of Black refugee and migrant women in collective decision-making and agenda-setting processes related to economic inclusion, rights and social protection. Enhanced leadership and advocacy capacities enabled refugee and migrant women from six regions to collectively influence public debates through the establishment of the National Network of Black Migrant Women and the articulation of a shared national agenda, formalized in a Charter of Rights of Black Migrant Women in Brazil, grounded in national and international legal frameworks. This resulted from political mobilization processes supported by UN Women with academic partners and women-led collectives, fostering coordinated engagement with policy debates even as legislative changes remain incipient. Finally, Brazil promoted gender and racial equality in the private sector by strengthening inclusive practices within organizational culture. Through the 7th edition of the Pro-Equity in Gender and Race Programme, 88 medium and large-sized companies developed and started the implementation of Gender and Race Action Plans under the coordination of the Ministry of Women, in partnership with the Ministry of Racial Equality, the Ministry of Labour and Employment, UN Women, and ILO. This effort addressed structural inequalities in the labour market and reinforced corporate accountability, with UN Women contributing technical support through a dedicated working group.

By 2027, Brazil will have advanced in economic inclusion that contributes to the reduction of poverty, hunger, vulnerabilities, inequalities, and discrimination of generation, gender, race and ethnicity, and that guarantees the right to transformative education for the full development of the person and access to decent work, opportunities for income generation, social, economic and care policy protection and resilient infrastructure, ensuring equal opportunities and sustainability.

In 2024, the Brazilian Government demonstrated significant progress in promoting women's economic inclusion. Under the country’s presidency, the 2024 G20 consolidated Member States’ commitments to promoting women’s economic empowerment, as evidenced by strategic documents that resulted from the discussions, such as the Rio de Janeiro Leader’s Declaration and the Chair’s Statement on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The first stated full commitment to the gender equality agenda, highlighting the acknowledgement of women’s contribution and leadership in all sectors and levels of the economy and their importance to global GDP (article 32). The second brought remarks on women’s inequality in access to economic rights and affirmed the Member States’ commitment to reducing the gender gap in the labour market, promoting equal pay, poverty alleviation measures, and advancement of women in entrepreneurship, among others. A pivotal commitment that resulted from the discussions is to reduce the inequalities in the division of care responsibilities. The 2024 Leader’s Declaration continued the efforts of the 2023 G20 New Delhi Leader’s Declaration, committing Member States to address the unequal distribution in paid and unpaid care and domestic work, and went further by committing to promote social and gender corresponsibility on care and defying the social norms that prevent an equal distribution of care responsibilities. The agenda was one of the three priority areas in the Chair’s Statement on Gender Equality, which further contributes to amplifying global awareness and driving transformative action from Member States to prioritize the development of care policies towards a care society. At the national level, the Brazilian Government took concrete steps to address, reduce, and redistribute women’s unpaid care work. Early in the year, Brazil pledged its commitment to the Global Alliance on Care, announced at an International Seminar hosted by UN Women in the city of Belém, which contributed to the positioning of the country as a regional leader in the care economy agenda. Following the G20 commitments, Brazil adopted its first National Care Policy through the enactment of Law #15.069/2024, in December. The law aims to promote a gender-responsive approach by recognizing that care is a shared responsibility among the state, families, civil society, and the private sector. Additionally, the law includes legal provisions for financing for care and predicts the launch of a National Care Plan, expected to be launched in early 2025. The Policy was developed with an active engagement with civil society organizations to promote social engagement and participation during the approval process of the Policy and the implementation of its National Plan. Furthermore, the inclusion of refugee and migrant people, ensuring their full access to human rights and fundamental freedom was also an important commitment made by the States Members in the G20 Rio de Janeiro Leader’s Declaration (article 34). In this context, the Brazilian Government has also shown remarkable progress in promoting refugee, migrant and stateless women's effective participation in decision-making that will inform the development of gender-responsive policies. In 2024, the Ministry of Justice convened the second National Conference on Migration, Refugee and Statelessness, a decade after the occurrence of the first one. The conference, which had women composing 54% of its delegates, resulted in the approval of 60 proposals that are expected to inform the National Policy on Migration Refuge and Statelessness. The proposals have covered a wide range of topics that suggest the creation of programmes that will affect the access to the rights of the refugees and migrant women living in the country. An example is the creation of a programme called “Community Mothers”, which aims to structure a care support network to be offered by refugee, migrant and stateless women themselves, and a socioeconomic inclusion national programme that will privilege women and other vulnerable groups. The progress achieved in 2024 is a result of the increased capacities and enhanced knowledge and skills of the Brazilian Government, to which UN Women contributed throughout the year. The Country Team provided continuous technical support and policy advice to public institutions through their qualified participation in interministerial working groups, collaboration in the organization of seminars and events, revision of technical documents, commissioning of goods and services, and provision of normative guidance to support advocacy efforts.