5.5 – Monitoring
Figure 8 - Average score of the policies selected for the
Monitoring axis.
The Monitoring axis includes the design of mechanisms for the
establishment of a system for the provision of key management
information to improve decision making while delivering socio-economic
and environmental benefits to Brazilian society. Each of the seven
analyzed policies have in place and operational their own monitoring
systems, although both PNMA and PNRH did not revealed the highest scores
(Figure 8).
The policies with highest scores revealed monitoring systems with
participatory and decentralized approaches, empowering and engaging
society on collaborative preventive action. For instance, several of
these policies have established policy observatories involving a
coalition of non governmental institutions representing the civil
society with interest and influence on policy decisions.
The Forest Code Observatory, is a network formed by 30 institutions,
which monitors the implementation of the new Forest Law in order to
generating data and critical mass to collaboratively support the
enhancement of positive results and mitigation of negative aspects,
avoiding further policy setbacks
(http://observatorioflorestal.org.br/).
In a different kind of coalition, the Observatory of the ABC Plan
implementation, encloses an initiative among research institutions,
farmers and agribusiness sector´s associations aimed at engaging society
in the debate about low-carbon agriculture issues through monitoring
impacts and outcomes of both ABC Plan and ABC Program (Brasil, 2012).
This network built a platform to exchange data and information in order
to develop technical studies to support and facilitate dialogue with
stakeholders and civil society, thus stimulating transparency and
awareness raising
(http://observatorioabc.com.br/).
The PNAPO policy also embraces a huge coalition of diverse social,
research, NGO and governmental stakeholders reporting policy results and
impacts and advertising policymakers about policy areas of overlapping
and gaps (IPEA, 2017). Undoubtedly, the lessons learnt upon the analyzed
policies suggest that the future plan of soil and water conservation
shall hold a robust and collaborative monitoring and information system
to provide strategic data analyses in a transparent and interactive
basis. It also shall facilitate dialogue and integration with other
relevant public monitoring systems. To this end the PNMSA monitoring
system shall introduce greenhouse gases estimations and alert tools in
vulnerable areas (IPEA, 2017).