📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Education (MEC), through the National Fund for the Development of Education (FNDE), passes, this Friday, August 29, R 4.07 billion regarding the complementation of the Union to the Fund for Maintenance and Development of Basic Education and Valorization of Education Professionals (FUNDEB). The funds will be credited directly in the accounts of states, municipalities and the Federal District, strengthening the maintenance and development of public basic education throughout the country.
The amount paid this month is distributed among the three modalities of complementation: annual value per student (VAAF), of R 2.24 billion; Total annual value per student (VAAT), of R 2.01 billion; and annual value per student (VAAR), due to the complementation, of R 448 million. It is money to strengthen the purchase of teaching materials, the acquisition of school transport and the appreciation of education professionals, explains the Minister of Education, Camilo Santana.
In June this year, by, in addition to ensuring the appreciation of teaching professionals - with the requirement of minimum application of 70% of resources for this purpose - MEC expanded the possibility of using Fundeb resources, allowing up to 30% to be applied to works and services agreed with FNDE. This application occurs in the form of non -financial counterpart, in which the federated entity uses part of the Fundeb balance to fund buildings and improvements in schools, without the need for additional values to the FNDE.
Fundebs complementation of the Union seeks to ensure greater equity in the distribution of resources, benefiting education networks that advance in educational management and improvement indicators and learning, as well as contributing to the reduction of regional inequalities.
FUNDEB - O consisting of resources from taxes and constitutional transfers of federated entities linked to education, as well as the Union, through the Vaaf, Vaat and Vaar complements.
All FUNDEB is somehow focused on reducing inequalities, but VAAR complementation was created as an induction and recognition mechanism for results in the reduction of educational inequalities between different racial and socioeconomic groups.
In order to receive the resources of VAAR complementation, education networks must comply with the conditionalities of management improvement I, IV and V, analyzed by the MEC Basic Education Secretariat (SEB); and Conditionalities II and III, analyzed by the National Institute for Educational Studies and Research Anisio Teixeira (Inep), a municipality linked to MEC; As well as advance in care and learning indicators, defined and calculated by Inep.
Conditionalities represent the first part of the analysis process to certify if a network is qualified to receive the vaar complementation feature. They are part of a set of conditions related to management processes aimed at impacting educational quality and reducing inequalities. Networks must meet all conditionalities to move on to the second part of the analysis process, which will be verified the occurrence of improved indicators.
MEC Communication Advisory, with information from FNDE
