The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) released today (27) the Work Plan for 2025 at the auditorium of the Superintendence for the Development of the Amazon (SUDAM), in Belém (PA). For the first time, the IBGE will launch its annual Work Plan in all the Major Regions in Brazil, starting in the North Region. The event, in a crowded auditorium, was held in parallel with the Forum of Federal Managers, organized by SUDAM with representatives of each federal agency working on the topics being discussed.

The President of the IBGE, Marcio Pochmann, participated remotely in the event, together with the IBGE Advisor Luis Victalino and the Assistant to the Executive Directorate, Hugo Leonardo do Couto. Onsite participations included the Coordinator for the Center for Information Documentation and Dissemination (CDDI) José Daniel Castro, who opened the ceremony; the Superintendent of SUDAM, Paulo Roberto Galvão da Rocha; the IBGE Superintendent in Pará, Rony Cordeiro; the Vice rector of the Federal University of Pará, Loiane Prado Verbicaro; the Municipal Secretary for the Environment and Climate of Belém; Juliana Nobre; the Director of Planning of SUDAM, Jorgiene dos Santos Oliveira, among others.

“The IBGE now advances towards its second work plan, after long and intense work performed by a commission of more than two dozen of colleagues. The experience of Building a national plan for the biggest and most important survey institution in Brazil and in the world is a construction that considers the different regionalities in Brazil and the different Brazilian biomes. This initiative will be repeated in the other cities where we will have the opportunity to discuss the IBGE activities for the year 2025, in response to the efforts made by Minister Simone Tebet and her team at the Ministry of Planning and Budget and by President Lula. The initiative will advance tomorrow, in Recife, on Wednesday, in Brasília, on Thursday, in Vitória, and on Friday, in Porto Alegre, which shows the dimension of a continental country. This perspective is necessary, especially now that Brazil is facing a change of time, acceleration of present time which demands that we face a new reality we have to watch and monitor with attention,” said the president of the IBGE, Marcio Pochmann.

The Superintendent of SUDAM, Paulo Roberto, explained that development must reach all. “SUDAM is aware of its role in this process, in this challenge and I am offering the possibility to bring everyone here and discuss with us, Search for solutions and answers to this challenge. For that reason, we decided to discuss this development starting from poorer areas. Challenges are great, we are joining efforts with the Federal Government, and creating forums with everyone together. That is why this meeting with IBGE colleagues is important and strategic towards this view of putting efforts together, as well as experiences, statistics, data, information, technology and science at the service of this development.”

Among the priorities of the new IBGE Work Plan there are strategic actions concerning the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 30), conducted in partnership with federal and regional entities. The Work Plan consists of the following topics: the IBGE; Foreign context; national System of Geosciences, Statistics and Data (SINGED); Planned actions; Production of Statistical and Geoscientific Information; Teaching, Research and Extension; Corporate support; Improvement and innovation; and Dissemination and Communication.

The Advisor the Presidency, Luis Victalino, spoke about the elaboration of the Work Plan. “The IBGE is present all over Brazil with the mission of portraying our reality. This introduction in relation to what the IBGE represents and how its structure works and a general view about it should be shared so that we can understand the Work Plan for 2025 better. This work plan has the role of giving the IBGE technical team a way to monitor processes from the beginning up to the final product,” the Advisor highlights.

The Work Plan for 2025 was conceived according to contributions and dialogues with all the directorates and departments of the IBGE, between the months of August and December 2024, in a Commission formed by 22 civil servants, being two from each different structure of the Institute, besides representatives of State Superintendencies (SES) and Branches.

The Plan directs strategic actions by the IBGE for 2025, and advances in the officialization of the National System of Geosciences, Statistics and Data (SINGED), modernization of structures, preparation for the 12th Census of Agriculture, conduction of the Consumer Expenditure Survey and other releases, also including international activities and meetings between the IBGE and official statistical offices.

“The board of directors has recently approved the revision of the current strategic plan, in such a way that we will soon have a new strategic plan for the institution for the period 2025-2027; it will bring objectives, indicators and targets for the construction of SINGED. The revision is scheduled for the first semester of 2025 and will consider two important landmarks: first, the pluriannual plan, a planning instrument of the federal government and, in second place, all the actions that have been adopted within the IBGE 90 Years project, which discusses the future of the IBGE,” explained the Assistant to the IBGE Executive Directorate, Hugo Leonardo do Couto.

The Superintendent of the IBGE in Pará, Rony Cordeiro, closed the event and remarked that the Plan is an instrument to dialogue with society and an important management and decision making tool, a guide and directive for the IBGE mission of portraying Brazil. “On behalf of all the civil servants at the superintendence and of branches, we are twice as happy, first of all because we are disseminating our national plan in the North Region, which is an important landmark, and also the opening of Casa Brasil IBGE COP, on Monday at the Federal University of Pará, a technological and interactive space and a window for interaction with the data released by the IBGE.”

The coming releases of the Work Plan will be in the Northeast Region, in Recife, on the 28, in partnership with the Superintendence for the Development of Brazilian Northeast (SUDENE); in the Central-West, in Brasília, on the 29, in partnership with the Federal Data Processing Service; in the Southeast, in Vitória, on the 30, in partnership with Instituto Jones dos Santos, and in the South Region, in Porto Alegre, on the 31, in partnership with the Organization of Cooperatives in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. All the events will be held from 10h30 to 12h, and will be streamed live on Digital IBGE Digital (ibge.gov.br) and on the Institute’s and its partners’ social media channels. For further information, click here.