On December 8th, I had the honor of joining nearly 800 students, teachers and public figures in Brasília for an incredible showcase of youth leadership in citizen oversight and community stewardship. The event was the final prize ceremony for the[…]
Last week Belo Horizonte’s City Hall launched a new Student Audit project designed by the Comptroller General’s Office of the municipality in collaboration with Secretary of Education and the Comptroller General’s Office of the Federal District. Inspired by the School Audit launched in[…]
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,[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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,[…]
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[…]