Minister Simone Tebet meets with the IBGE in Rio de Janeiro
January 29, 2024 01h45 PM | Last Updated: January 29, 2024 08h12 PM
The Minister of Planning and Budget (MPO), Simone Tebet, met with the Directing Board of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), today, 29, at the Institute’s headquarters, in Rio de Janeiro. The president of the IBGE, Marcio Pochmann, then presented to the minister the Work Guidelines for the Institute for up to 2026, the IBGE Work Plan for 2024, a document on the Initial Months of this new administration, and a printed edition of the AgendaIBGE, (IBGE Schedule), released this Monday. Minister Simone Tebet presented to the directing board the Project 5 Integration Routes with countries in South America.
Ms. Tebet highlighted the importance of the IBGE in the country: “Our meeting was very fruitful, about the IBGE’s strategic plan for 2024 and the strategic plan conceived by the Ministry of Planning and Budget, within the administration of President Lula, for the current year. Without the IBGE we cannot deal with public policies efficiently, it is not possible to talk about the Brazil wee want,” she stated.
On behalf of the ten thousand plus IBGE servants, Mr. Pochmann thanked for the visit and mentioned cooperative projects. “We are honored to receive Minister Simone Tebet, and to see how she interacts with the institute. This meeting shows how positive this year has been. We can see a planning proposal and a Project at integration that is necessary for Brazil, and that has been left aside for long. The IBGE, which has a background of 88 years in activity, is a key partner to promote this important proposal by the Ministry of Planning and Budget,” Mr. Pochmann explains.
Besides Ms. Tebet and Mr. Pochmann, other attendees to the meeting were Secretary of Institutional Affairs for the MPO, João Victor Villaverde de Almeida, MPO assistant Cecília Ramos, the IBGE’s Executive Director, Flavia Vinhaes, Director of Surveys, Elizabeth Hypólito, Director of Geosciences, Ivone Batista, Assistant Director of Information Technology, Arnaldo Barreto, Assistant General Coordinator of ENCE (National School of Statistical Sciences), Cesar Augusto Marques da Silva, General Coordinator of Social Communication, Bruno De Vizia, besides the Assistants to the President, Luis Vitagliano e Denis Maracci Giménez.
