Joice Toyota Mendes: Improving the Quality and Equity in Education

Jun 01, 2023 Posted by: George Romar Brazil, Joice Toyota Mendes, São Paulo, SDG 4

Joice: Thanks for having me, Spiffy! Brazil’s educational system is vast: approximately 47 million students are enrolled, considering those from Educação Básica (primary and secondary school). This whole system has 181,000 schools and 1.7 million teachers. In addition, fundamental challenges remain concerning the quality and equity of education in Brazil. A white person has, on average, 1.8 more years of study than a black one. Inequality is even higher when we compare public outcomes with the ones of the private sector.

Rafael Machiaverni: Improving Educational Attainment for Millions of Brazilian Students

Apr 25, 2023 Posted by: George Romar Brazil, Rafael Machiaverni, São Paulo, SDG 1, SDG 10, SDG 2, SDG 3, SDG 4, SDG 5, SDG 8

Rafael: Glad to be with you, Spiffy! At Parceiros da Educação, our main goal is to increase the learning levels within the public educational system of the State of São Paulo to the highest in Latin America by 2040. Our challenges include the current learning levels—which are low in Brazil as a whole: only 10% of Brazilian students leave K-12 schools with adequate proficiency in math, for example—and the size of the São Paulo network, which has more than 5.6 million students.

Luciana Elmais: Strengthening Brazilian Democracy

Mar 27, 2023 Posted by: George Romar Brazil, Luciana Elmais, Sao Paulo, SDG 10, SDG 16, SDG 17, SDG 5

Luciana: Glad to be with you, Spiffy! For starters, I realized that the Brazilian legislative branch operates far below its potential and systematically fails to address the needs of the population. Brazil has a 40% rate of political renewal in every election. However, simply changing elected officials is not enough to make politics work. In the last term, politicians scored—on a scale from zero to ten—an average of 2.8 in productivity. We believe that the key to unlock the potential of the legislative branch is by helping political cabinets deliver. To do that, we pull three leverages of systemic change: (i) diversify the talent of political staff, (ii) build capacity among current political advisors, (iii) promote accountability.

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