📋 Tender Overview
The National Environment Fund (FNMA), chaired by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA), opened on Wednesday (20/8) the voting period to select the environmental entities that should integrate their deliberative council. The election will be made electronically, on the page, until 6 pm on September 3.
The process will define five starting representatives, one for each region of the country, and five alternates. In all, applications of 12 entities were granted. There were also approval of 20 institutions that will participate in the process as voters.
All organizations, whether voting or candidates, are part of the National Register of Environmental Entities (CNEA), maintained by the National Environment Council (Conama). The condition is one of the requirements set forth on July 14.
The result will be published in the Federal Official Gazette, the FNMA page and the MMA website, within five days of the end of the vote.
The elected will have a mandate for the 2025/2027 biennium, beginning at the first meeting of the Deliberative Council, which should take place within 120 days, following the publication of the ordinance with the appointment of the counselors.
The FNMA Deliberative Council aims to guarantee social control in the execution of public resources for social and environmental projects throughout the national territory.
Since 2023, the collegiate has again had the participation of civil society, with the publication of Decree 11.372/2023. With this, the group is composed of 22 starting representatives, 12 members of the government and 10 of civil society, of which five are from non-governmental environmental organizations.
Fnma
Created in 1989, the FNMA is the oldest environmental background in Latin America. Throughout its history, the initiative has already fostered more than 1,495 projects, with investments of around R 298 million, from the National Treasury and international agreements. Currently, the funds resources are composed of the amounts collected from the fines for environmental infraction applied by the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) and Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio).
