How we are transforming Brazil
Luana Tavares
Executive director at CLP
Tadeu Barros
Operations director at CLP
If we could synthesize our work in the last 18 months, transformation would be the most proper word. It reflects the changes society has been going through – consequently influencing our performance.
During this period, we got the approval of the Social Security Reform, one of the leading causes advocated by CLP (Center for Public Leadership, by its Portuguese acronym). For years, it seemed to be an unachievable goal. The reform consolidation made it clear that it is possible to mobilize both institutions and society on complex and structural matters. As expected, we engaged ourselves in solving this issue, which aims to reduce inequity, the corporative prerogatives, and correct an unsustainable tax route for the country.
we are proud of our performance in creating a less uneven Brazil. But there is still a long road ahead. And the transformation path demands a change in the attitude of public leaders and the engagement of society.
With the support of our network, we mobilized more than 90 institutions in an intense set of actions to show the risk of worsening public accounts and, consequently, the provision of essential services.
After that achievement, we can say that we are proud of our performance in creating a less uneven Brazil. But there is still a long road ahead. And the transformation path demands a change in the attitude of public leaders and the engagement of society.
Luana Tavares, executive director at CLP; Tadeu Barros, operations director at CLP
Therefore, CLP keeps developing initiatives capable of influencing this new paradigm in public leadership. The 2019 Competitiveness Ranking of States, a tool gathering data to support public managers to diagnose issues and list priorities, is already used by 20 States.
The Master in Public Leadership – MLG (according to its acronym in Portuguese for Master em Liderança Pública), focused on developing public managers, and registered a record number of enrollments for the seventh edition of graduate studies. All this impact is the result of a new strategy in which CLP identifies the most urgent issues in Brazil and the main actors and public leaders capable of solving them, developing joint solutions through technical intelligence and research, education programs, communication campaigns, political articulation, and coalitions with civil society organized around concrete changes that can contribute to the creation of an efficient, less uneven, and more democratic state.
In early 2020, COVID-19 brought the most complex global crisis we have ever experienced, both in public health and in the economy. Since the beginning of the pandemic, CLP has taken measures to stem the coronavirus’ progress. To public managers, we offer useful positioning methods, besides studies and directions on how to overcome the crisis. And we also created the States' COVID-19 Ranking, updated every 15 days, to identify the places with the greatest need for assistance.
The new coronavirus is an opponent to be overcome with common sense, empathy, balance, and unity. When this crisis ends – yes, it will end – the world will be different, and life will be different. Given the huge challenge in the post-crisis, unity around proposals capable of recovering the Brazilian economy's productive capacity and reversing the dramatic curve of increasing inequity will be essential.
In this context, in a partnership with several specialists and institutions, we coordinated the launch of #UnidosPeloBrasil, a movement of political impact proposing a short-term plan for the country's recovery of employment, income, and sustainable growth. It is based on three pillars: structural reforms, fighting against inequalities, and sustainable growth.
The new coronavirus is an opponent to be overcome with common sense, empathy, balance, and unity.
When we understood the impact of this working method, we saw the possibility of improving our structure to face this new model. Thus, we also went through internal adjustments in our operational structure, strengthening the team and governance. In addition to the Executive Board, CLP has an International Relationship Board and an Operations Board, whose focused attention will give us the necessary drive to ensure our impact and relevance to society.
As can be seen in this digital report, we believe that networking – gathering civil society, political leaderships, public managers, and institutions – can effectively engage the largest possible number of actors around concrete and essential changes that aim to make Brazil a more democratic and efficient country in the provision of public services.
In the coming months, CLP's role will be to continue consolidating actions around the structural problems that our country needs to face, with courage and resilience, overcoming corporatism, polarization, and radicalization, with possible and incremental proposals that lead us to a more dignified future.
Every Brazilian deserves it, and we count on you in this effort!