Objectives and Technical Assistance Packages in Brazil

AIM4Forests supports Brazil through eight interlinked technical assistance packages: 

1. Enhancing the National forest inventory (NFI): In partnership with the Brazilian Forest Service, supporting the second NFI cycle through improved methodologies, digital solutions, remote sensing, and institutional frameworks.
2. Strengthening the National forest information system: Enhancing forest data collection, automation, and dissemination to deliver more timely, accurate, and accessible information.
3. Advancing REDD+ Measurement, reporting and verification (MRV): Supporting the REDD+ National Commission and its MRV group to improve forest emissions estimates and align national and subnational priorities.
4. Monitoring forest change with BiomasBR: In collaboration with INPE, improving data collection and accuracy assessment of official forest data change, including from Prodes System.   
5. Promoting transparent commodity supply chains: With the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, providing farmers access to Whisp deforestation risk assessments via the AgroBrasil+ Sustentável platform.
6. Tracking ecosystem restoration: Mapping non-governmental monitoring efforts to support national restoration goals under the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and the Target 2 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. 
7. Supporting PLANAVEG Monitoring Strategy: Through AIM4NatuRe Initiative, developing a national platform to monitore the National Plan for the Recovery of Native Vegetation – Planaveg’s aligned with FERM.
8. Strengthening biocentric restoration and forest monitoring by Indigenous Peoples: Facilitating engagement and the exchange of knowledge on Indigenous Peoples’ biocentric restoration approaches across regions through AIM4NatuRe, in support of Targets 2 and 22 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The initiative includes technical capacity development in participatory tools and methodologies for forest monitoring and territorial mapping, as well as regional exchanges with networks of Indigenous and community-based organizations in Latin America, within the AIM4Forests community of practice.