Brazil

The Aluno Auditor project was created by the General Controller's Office of the Municipality (Cogem) in partnership with the Municipal Department of Education (Semed) of Macapá, in the Amazonia Region. It aims to promote active citizenship among students, teachers, and other school staff, using audit methodology as a central tool to identify existing problems in schools, evaluate their causes and find solutions. Students inspect their classrooms and facilities and then discuss solutions with their teachers for the problems identified. Together they build creative measures to find solutions with the involvement of the school community.

ePnae was developed by the National School Feeding Programme to allow parents, students, teachers, nutritionists, school food managers and other stakeholders to monitor and evaluate the school meals offered in public schools throughout the country. To access all the features, users must download the application from the Apple (iOS) or Google (Android) stores, provide their profile information and authenticate with their Brazil Citizen user account from the Brazilian Federal Government.

The Goiás State Audit Office's project, in partnership with the State Education Department, known as "Estudantes de Atitude", aims to promote citizenship and social participation in public schools. Through a gamified competition, students from public schools in the state of Goiás are encouraged to engage in practices related to transparency, social control, volunteering, and the prevention of corruption. They exercise their rights as citizens through several stages of the game, including team building, civic audits, special tasks, and challenges. Schools and teachers that stand out are rewarded financially. The project website presents the results of the students' audits, allowing them to check the results in their own schools as well as reports comparing the overall results.

Funded by the Google Innovation Prize, Tá de Pé (It Stands Still) monitors the implementation of public policies. Tá de Pé Obras allows citizens to monitor the construction of schools, kindergartens and playgrounds in Brazilian municipalities. Users share their location and receive a list of schools under construction that appear to be behind schedule. This information about delayed construction is gathered from the official website of the Federal National Fund for Educational Development (FNDE). Users are encouraged to take photos of the site and report the status of construction. Volunteer engineers review the photos, and in the case of confirmation of delayed schools, Transparência Brasil contacts the public officials responsible for the contracts. If there is no response, reports are sent to the Office of the Comptroller General and the federal agency responsible for allocating funds. A Twitter bot posts a message each time a user submits a new picture for evaluation, or a municipality responds to a citizen’s request.

Funded by the Google Innovation Prize, Tá de Pé (It Stands Still) monitors the implementation of public policies. Tá de Pé Merenda aims to improve civil society monitoring and oversight of how states and municipalities spend school feeding funds. Developed and implemetnted byTransparência Brasil and the Federal University of Campina Grande, it provides Open public data from two State Courts of Accounts (Rio Grande do Sul and Pernambuco) and the Federal Revenue on its beta version. It allows users to track tenders, contracts and commitments made by Brazilian municipalities via a search engine and chatbot. It also uses artificial intelligence to assess higher-than-average prices, taking into account seasonal school meals and local producers. A chatbot allows for the reporting of school meal information, with an accompanying platform where data on school meal quality can be reported by students and school staff, and then accessed and compared. Transparency International is also in dialogue with the Audit Courts to further enhance the availability of quality data for social control.