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 PPA’s 88 programs, 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’s 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 UN Women’s pivotal role 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 10th G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit (P20) final declaration. The Charter of Alagoas, developed during the 1st 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. UN Women contributed to these advancements 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, through the Joint Ordinance No 3, 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).