Santarém school lunch monitoring featured in Porvir
We were proud to see our partners at Project SOL and the Student Movement Pact for Education in Pará featured in a new focus section published by Porvir on student participation in schools. Porvir, which focuses on innovation in education in Brazil, released a guide for educators on how to involve...
Civic Audit to launch in 100 schools in Brasília
Today the Comptroller General of the Federal District in Brazil is launching the first School Attitude Prize, with the goal of fostering civic awareness and a culture of citizen oversight in public schools. As part of the process, students from 100 schools across the district will participate in teams...
Celebrating Phase II in Belém
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...
Participatory Design Workshop: Promise Tracker 2.0
As part of our recent trip to Belém to share the work of our partners throughout Phase II of the project, we held a design workshop we with over 30 university and high school students from Belém and Santarém that have been using Promise Tracker in order to learn from...
Initial findings from Pará
This month we’re excited to be sharing initial findings from the Phase II Promise Tracker case studies, developed over the past year with partners at the University of São Paulo’s Colaboratory for Development and Participation (Colab-USP). With support from Humanitas360, Phase II of the the project was launched in...
University students take monitoring into public high schools
Over the past 2 weeks, 98 public accounting students at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) visited 15 public high schools across the city of Belém to launch an unprecedented pilot program to monitor the quality of school lunches. Over the next 2 months, this team will train and...
Partners Summit in São Paulo
Last week in São Paulo, we gathered the incredible group of partners that have been working on the Phase 2 pilot of Promise Tracker in order to share learnings from the past year and discuss next steps for the project. This cross-sector all-star team included representatives from civil society...
Learning from partners in Pará
We made a second trip to the state of Pará this month to follow up on school lunch monitoring campaigns and interview a range of different actors to learn more about their experience using Promise Tracker. Over the course of the week we interviewed 26 people in Belém, Santarém...
Citizen audit at the Federal University of Pará
At the start of the semester, accounting students in two courses at the Federal University of Pará teamed up with a unusual set of partners to develop proposals for civic audits using Promise Tracker. As part of their final course project, students studying public budgeting and accounting worked with...
A visit to the student movement in Santarém
This week we had the honor of meeting leaders of the impressive student movement Pact for Education in Pará, who have been monitoring school lunches using Promise Tracker over the past several months. The movement was born in October of 2015 out of the youth citizenship initiative, Project SOL....