📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Education (MEC) started, this Monday, May 18th, the information collection period for the 2026 Equity Diagnosis, in the context of the National Policy on Equity, Education for Ethnic-Racial Relations and Quilombola School Education (Pneerq).
Using a form available in the Pneerq module of the Ministry of Educations Integrated Monitoring, Execution and Control System (Simec), state and municipal education departments must record their advances and challenges in the implementation of Law No. 10,639/2003, amended by Law No. 11,645/2009, which made the teaching of history mandatory and Afro-Brazilian, African and indigenous culture in schools.
The objective of the mapping is to support public policies aimed at overcoming ethnic-racial inequalities and racism in schools. The diagnosis also aims to monitor the implementation of education for ethnic-racial relations (Erer), quilombola school education (EEQ) and indigenous school education (EEI) in public education networks throughout Brazil.
The diagnostic axes are organized into ten thematic dimensions: strengthening the legal framework; training of managers and education professionals; educational management; teaching and para-teaching materials; curriculum; financing; indicators, evaluation and monitoring; democratic management and social participation mechanisms; quilombola school education; and indigenous school education.
Pneerq - The National Policy on Equity, Education for Ethnic-Racial Relations and Quilombola School Education (Pneerq), created by Ordinance No. 470/2024, aims to implement educational actions and programs aimed at overcoming ethnic-racial inequalities and racism in teaching environments, as well as promoting educational policy for the quilombola population.
The commitments of this policy are: structuring a system of goals and monitoring; ensure the implementation of art. 26-A of Law No. 9,394/1996; train education professionals for management and teaching within the scope of education for ethnic-racial relations (Erer) and quilombola school education (EEQ); induce the construction of institutional capacities to conduct Erer and EEQ policies in federated entities; recognize institutional advances in anti-racist educational practices; contribute to overcoming ethnic-racial inequalities in Brazilian education; consolidate the quilombola school education modality, with the implementation of the National Guidelines; and implement protocols for identifying and responding to racism in schools (public and private).
MEC Social Communication Advisory, with information from the Secretariat of Continuing Education, Youth and Adult Literacy, Diversity and Inclusion (Secadi)
