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...
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....