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# Brazil

*As of August 2026.*

## At a glance

<table><thead><tr><th width="210">​</th><th>​</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>DPI system</strong></td><td>Cadastro Ambiental Rural (CAR), the Rural Environmental Registry</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Lead institution</strong></td><td>Secretariat for State Transformation, Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Current stage</strong></td><td>Roadmap developed, moving to validation with government counterparts</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Safeguards focus</strong></td><td>Inclusion, safety, trust, and rights-based governance across the CAR life cycle</td></tr></tbody></table>

## The problem

Brazil's National Digital Government Strategy for 2024 to 2027 commits the country to digital public infrastructure that is safe and inclusive, with universal access, secure data sharing, and environmental sustainability. Brazil already runs DPI at national scale, including the PIX instant payment system used by over 140 million people.

CAR is a different kind of system. It registers rural properties for environmental compliance, which places it between landholders, credit, and climate policy. Decisions about who gets registered, how their data is handled, and what recourse they have carry consequences for people and for land. Brazil chose CAR to carry its safeguards commitment, treating it as a concrete pathway for applying the Framework to a strategic DPI rather than a general statement of intent.

## The journey

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### Commit

In September 2025, the Secretariat for State Transformation at the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services formally endorsed the Universal DPI Safeguards Framework for CAR.

The commitment sets out four undertakings: adopt the relevant principles at the appropriate life cycle stages, sustain multi-stakeholder engagement including civil society, build the capacity of officials to respond to risks including through redress mechanisms, and enable ecosystem innovation on public infrastructure.

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### Align institutions

Government and UNDP teams worked through how safeguards would operate inside the CAR context specifically, rather than in the abstract. This set the terms for what followed: who is responsible for what, and where the Framework attaches to processes that already exist.
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### Diagnose

Consultations, workshops, and stakeholder engagement identified the priority issues for CAR across inclusion, safety, governance, and implementation capacity. The civil society organisation IDEC took part in this work.

The diagnosis was risk-informed, starting from what could go wrong for people rather than from a compliance checklist.
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### Build the roadmap

The diagnostic findings were translated into a safeguards roadmap: priority actions with implementation pathways, covering governance, inclusion, safety, transparency, and the capacity needed to deliver them.
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### Validate and implement

The roadmap is being reviewed with government counterparts. Over the following six to twelve months the work is to define priority implementation actions, strengthen coordination across the institutions involved, and build capacity to apply safeguards throughout the CAR life cycle, alongside monitoring and learning mechanisms so progress and lessons can be shared.
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## Results so far

Brazil has moved from endorsement to an implementation plan. Three things exist now that did not before:

* A shared understanding between government and UNDP of how safeguards apply to CAR in practice.
* A risk-informed diagnosis of the priority issues, produced with stakeholders including civil society.
* A safeguards roadmap naming priority actions and how they will be delivered.

Monitoring and learning mechanisms are being built alongside the roadmap so Brazil can report progress and share what it learns with other countries.

## Resources

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* [Universal DPI Safeguards Framework](https://www.dpi-safeguards.org/framework-visualization), the standard being applied
* [Adoption Pathways](https://www.dpi-safeguards.org/pathways), the guidance behind the alignment and diagnosis phases
* [Safeguards Assessment](https://www.dpi-safeguards.org/assessment), for running a comparable diagnosis


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