Tag: Phase I

This past week in the northern Brazilian city of Belém do Pará, we had the pleasure of commemorating the first official collaboration between a civil society group and local government to monitor city issues using Promise Tracker. During a 2-day sprint, we teamed up with the Social Observatory of...

On Saturday we returned to Jardim Pantanal on the outskirts of São Paulo to run a second workshop with leaders of the Residents Association, staff of the Alana Institute and local youth.  Our goal for the day was to develop a pilot campaign for the Association and explore how monitoring...

This weekend we traveled to the city of Paraty on the coast of Rio de Janeiro to run a workshop with the Nucleus for Media, Art & Technology and professors from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Officially launched in January 2015, the Nucleus was created to provide training...

This week we returned to São Paulo to work with participatory councillors from 3 different regions of São Paulo to monitor projects included in Mayor Haddad’s goals plan for the 2013-2016 period. Rather than focusing on projects specific to their districts, participants selected a goal that called for the...

We returned to the northeast this week to run a workshop in Belém do Pará with The Social Observatory of Belém. The group was fantastically diverse, including reps from the public prosecutor’s office, the secretary for the environment, the informal transportation collective, the community outreach initiative of the military police, architects...

On Saturday we accompanied a group organized by the residents association in the São Paulo neighborhood of Moema. We gathered in a cake shop with an eclectic group including local business owners, participatory councilors, a representative from the local branch of city hall and residents ages 22 to 70 including lawyers, engineers,...