📋 Tender Overview
O, initiative of the Ministry of Education (MEC), will pass, in 2025, R 379 million to teaching units throughout Brazil. Considering the period from 2023 to 2026, the forecast of the folder is to invest R 1.3 billion through the program. State and municipal education networks have until June 6 to join the initiative, which aims to improve the quality of education and the physical and pedagogical infrastructure of basic education schools, with attention to those in the most vulnerable situation. PDDE equity is composed of three great fronts:
PDDE Multifunctional Resource Room (SRM): focused on supporting inclusive special education. The initiative has an expected budget of R 201.6 million to 2025, benefiting 6,713 schools;
PDDE Water, Sanitary Sewage and Infrastructure in Field Schools, Indigenous and Quilombolas: focused on structural improvements in 2,973 fields in the countryside, indigenous and quilombolas. In 2025, about R 102 million are foreseen for this modality; and
PDDE Diversity: aims at the implementation of national curriculum guidelines in ten thematic lines. In this cycle, the investment forecast is R 75 million, which is intended for special education modalities; Field Education; Indigenous School Education; Quilombola School Education; Education for ethnic-racial relations; Bilingual Education of Deaf; and Youth and Adult Education (EJA). In all, 21,242 schools will benefit from the program.
The PDDE Equity consists of the annual allocation, by the National Fund for the Development of Education (FNDE), of financial resources, in addition to the public schools of basic education of state, municipal and the Federal District. The purpose is to improve the conditions of supply and the physical and pedagogical infrastructure of schools to ensure the right to education for all students, promoting equity and overcoming educational inequalities, recognizing diversity and ensuring inclusion in the school environment.
Elegable - of the 5,570 Brazilian municipalities, 3,039 have eligible schools to receive resources from PDDE Equity. In all, 27,543 school units in the country comply with the programs requirements and can join.
The values that each unit receives vary according to the number of students and the adhered program. There is a distinction between costing resources, including operating expenses, and capital resources, which include investments in durable goods and infrastructure.
Criteria - To participate in the program, the school must have its own executing unit (UEX) and is listed as eligible by MEC. The list of apt schools is available on the PDDE Equity page. The technical and budgetary criteria used to select these teaching units can be consulted in Annex I of Resolution No. 17/2025, which regulates this program of the program.
Adherence to the program can be held until June 6 by two stages: adherence by the state and municipal education secretariats (executing entities - EEX) and adhesion of the representative UEX of the schools indicated by the Secretariat of Continuing Education, Literacy of Youth and Adults, Diversity and Inclusion (Secadi) of MEC. The steps can be done simultaneously. Thus, schools do not need to wait for the secretariats.
MEC Communication Advisory, with information from Secadi
