Representing the Northeast Region, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) released today (28) the Work Plan 2025 at the headquarters of the Superintendence for the Development of the Northeast (SUDENE) in Recife (PE). Besides Recife, the IBGE presents its Work Plan regionally in other four cities – Belém, Brasília, Vitória and Porto Alegre.

The presentation counted with the presence of the President of the IBGE, Marcio Pochmann, of the Superintendent of SUDENE, Danilo Cabral, and of the Aide of the IBGE´s Executive Directorate, Hugo Leonardo do Couto. The Coordinator General of the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE), Paulo Jannuzzi, the IBGE´s State Superintendent in Pernambuco, Gliner Dias, the President of the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation (Fundaj), Márcia Aguiar, the Fundaj´s Directors of Surveys, Wilson Fusco, the Director of the National Development Bank (BNDES), Caio Ramos, and the Professor of the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE), Thieres Silva, were present as well. José Daniel Castro, Coordinator of the Center for Information Documentation and Dissemination (CDDI), mediated the meeting.
For Danilo Cabral, the presentation of the Work Plan in Recife consolidated a partnership with the IBGE. "We have been approaching the IBGE since last year, knowing the importance of this institution for the development of our country. The IBGE is the largest information center in Brazil. In order to formulate policies to face the challenges in Brazil and in the Northeast, we have to take a look at this information."
The Plan describes strategic actions of the IBGE for 2025, advancing in the consolidation of the National System of Geosciences, Statistics and Data (SINGED), modernization of structures, preparation for the 12th Census of Agriculture, accomplishment of the Consumer Expenditure Survey and of a number of releases, as well as international activities and meetings between the IBGE and other national statistical offices.
Hugo Leonardo Couto brought some news of the Work Plan 2025 concerning internal and external actions of the IBGE. "The Board of Directors recently approved the revision of the strategic plan in effect, so we will have a new institutional strategic plan for the period between 2025 and 2027, which will bring the goals, indicators and targets for the construction of SINGED. The revision is scheduled for the first semester of 2025 and it will take into account two important milestones: the multi-annual plan, a planning tool of the Federal Administration, and all the actions that have been planned under the scope of the IBGE 90 Years project, which has discussed the future of the IBGE with internal officers."

The IBGE´s Work Plan brings as priorities strategic actions around the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 30) carried out by the IBGE in partnership with federal and regional entities. The Plan includes the topics: The IBGE; External context; the National System of Geosciences, Statistics and Data (SINGED); Planned actions; Production of geoscientific and statistical information; Education, research and extension; Corporate support; Improvement and innovation; and Dissemination and communication.
Paulo Jannuzzi stated that ENCE played a key role in writing the Work Plan. "We deepened a series of knowledge tracks in this Work Plan. Data Science, successfully started in 2024, was one of them. The other knowledge tracks were in the field of short-term analysis and public communication to train IBGE´s technicians and the society. We also have the track in the area of amendment of public policies, of how the IBGE presents these data to the society. And the track about SINGED, a very important institutional framework to disseminate the IBGE actions."
"I am very pleased to see the Work Plan being presented at federal level. Work in partnerships, in geographies per region, portray Brazil. The IBGE is welcome in the Northeast by everybody, since it had a vertical structure for a long time, with the decisions taken only in Rio de Janeiro," highlighted Gliner Dias.
"The initiative of integrating a single Work Plan is a way to recognize the IBGE´s effort, which presents for the second time a document with the actions along the entire year. Even with budget constraints, the IBGE is building the work guidelines, thanks to the dialog with IBGE officers. It is not imposed by the Board of Directors, since the Work Plan came from different areas as, for instance, the education theme presented by ENCE´s Coordinator. And other Directorates and Superintendencies are included in this Plan as well," explained Marcio Pochmann.

Other authorities reported the importance of the Work Plan and the partnership between the IBGE, SUDENE and Joaquim Nabuco Foundation (Fundaj).