Melhorando o Processo de Contratação de Estudos Socioambientais em Projetos de Infraestrutura Terrestre

The report identifies significant transparency gaps in the procurement of Technical, Economic, and Environmental Viability Studies (EVTEA) and Environmental Impact Studies (EIA) for land transport projects in the Amazon. It highlights that a disproportionate amount of EIA budgets is spent on diagnostics rather than impact assessment and mitigation. The authors recommend clarifying selection criteria in tenders, detailing budget allocations for socio-environmental components, and introducing a 'pre-feasibility' phase to shift diagnostic analysis earlier in the project lifecycle.

• Public procurement processes for socio-environmental studies lack transparency, which prevents civil society from monitoring how these studies are selected, evaluated, and approved.
• Tenders for EVTEA and EIA often lack clear criteria, making it difficult to understand how budgets are allocated across different socio-environmental components of the studies.
• Analysis of EIA budgets for the Ferrogrão railway and BR-364 highway shows that the majority of funds are allocated to diagnostics of physical, socioeconomic, and biotic environments (54% for Ferrogrão and 57.6% for BR-364), while impact assessment and mitigation measures receive only 6% of the budget in both cases.
• There is an opportunity to move part of the diagnostic analysis—specifically data from secondary sources—to phases prior to environmental licensing, such as the EVTEA or a proposed new 'pre-feasibility' phase, to reduce the burden on the licensing process and improve project quality.
• In the analysis of EVTEA tenders, researchers found that documents often failed to specify the products to be delivered, the percentage of the study dedicated to socio-environmental components, or delivery deadlines.
• For studies contracted via the Interest Manifestation Procedure (PMI), the government often does not justify the maximum reimbursement price in the tender, requiring researchers to use the Access to Information Law (LAI) to obtain this data.

APA

Chiavari, J., Antonaccio, L., & Barros, A. C. (2021). Melhorando o Processo de Contratação de Estudos Socioambientais em Projetos de Infraestrutura Terrestre. Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/REL-Melhorando-o-Processo-de-Contratacao-de-Estudos-Socioambientais-em-Projetos-de-Infraestrutura-Terrestre-no-Brasil.pdf

Chicago

Chiavari, Joana, Luiza Antonaccio, and Ana Cristina Barros. Melhorando o Processo de Contratação de Estudos Socioambientais em Projetos de Infraestrutura Terrestre. Climate Policy Initiative, 2021. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/REL-Melhorando-o-Processo-de-Contratacao-de-Estudos-Socioambientais-em-Projetos-de-Infraestrutura-Terrestre-no-Brasil.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{chiavari2021melhorando, author = {Chiavari, Joana and Antonaccio, Luiza and Barros, Ana Cristina}, title = {{Melhorando o Processo de Contratação de Estudos Socioambientais em Projetos de Infraestrutura Terrestre}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2021}, month = feb, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/REL-Melhorando-o-Processo-de-Contratacao-de-Estudos-Socioambientais-em-Projetos-de-Infraestrutura-Terrestre-no-Brasil.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }