Author: Monitorando a Cidade

In 2021, one of our great partners and mentors, Professor Eliana Mara, left us early. Eliana was a high school math teacher in the public school system in Santarém, Pará for 23 years. Creator and coordinator of Project SOL for 17 years — a program developed by youth in...

At the final ceremony for the Bank of Brazil Foundation’s 2021 Social Technology Awards, held on December 2nd, Promise Tracker won first place for the Digital Innovation category. In addition to this category, the 2021 edition of the award featured categories for Sustainable Cities, Education for the Future, and...

The Office of the Comptroller General in Pará won the CGU Excellence Award in 2018 in the Innovation category for the collaborative citizen monitoring project, “Égua da merenda, João!“. Carried out in partnership with the Federal University of Pará and the Social Observatory of Belém, the project engaged public...

Over the years, the Promise Tracker team has had the pleasure of accompanying the groundbreaking Monitoring School Lunches project, created by a partnership between the Office of the Comptroller General (CGU), the Accounting Sciences Department at the Federal University of Pará and the Social Observatory of Belém. The project has...

During the last week of June, the Promise Tracker team gathered in Belém for a series of events to celebrate the incredible work achieved by our partners in Pará during Phase II of the project. Technology, Transparency and Citizen Oversight: Developing New Strategies On Monday, a group of over...

On June 21st, middle and high school students in Brazil’s northern city of Santarém, Pará took to the streets in the city center to raise awareness about a crisis with school lunches. The event was organized by the Student Movement Pact for Education in Pará in partnership with the...