Monitoring
The PCI strategy is based on a broad set of goals divided into three axes: Produce, Conserve, and Include, which bring concreteness to its objectives and enable their monitoring. The PCI Monitoring Committee was formed in early 2017 with the aim of assessing progress towards these goals, as well as providing input for the refinement and improvement of actions and ensuring transparency and credibility of the strategy to partners, investors, and society.
Diversas instituições tem participado e contribuído com o Comitê de Monitoramento da PCI, entre elas o TNC, EII, IDH, Agroícone, WRI e GIZ.
If your institution is interested in participating in this Committee, please reach out by email to: r.colombo@pcimt.org
Establishment of the Monitoring Working Group
At the end of 2016, within the scope of the State Committee of the PCI Strategy, the creation of a Working Group for monitoring goals was proposed, which later evolved into the current PCI Monitoring Committee. The Working Group decided that annually PCI will assess the progress of its goals, and the results will be published and made available through a report.
Development of Indicators
To achieve PCI's objectives, the PCI Monitoring Committee worked in 2017 on defining indicators, baseline data, and sources for each of the 21 goals distributed across its three axes. These indicators are being monitored and updated annually, enabling the identification of progress towards each established goal and guiding efforts from the government, private sector, and civil society.
The selection of indicators was carried out considering availability, update frequency, scale, and data format. Therefore, information produced by reliable sources that are easily accessible, with annual or biannual updates, was chosen. Preference was given to indicators at the municipal scale and those that can be spatially located within the territory.
For some goals, there is currently no available information that meets these criteria, which limits the definition of a robust indicator. In some cases, it was necessary to combine more than one indicator, while in others, a composite indicator combining two pieces of information was used. In some instances, only indicators reflecting part of the goal could be identified.
The technical note available at the publication link on this page presents the goals of the three axes that compose the Strategy, along with their respective indicators, demonstrating also which databases were used and the processing given to the information.
The monitoring indicators, or baseline, are key information that will allow showing the state's situation in 2015 when PCI was launched and measuring its progress since then, facilitating the achievement of PCI goals and another action of this Committee.
Goals Balance
The Target Monitoring report (or “Balanço de Metas”) presents the results of the monitoring indicators for the 24 PCI goals year by year, and provides the baseline reference for the year 2015, when the PCI was launched. The report also enables the PCI Strategy to be assessed in order to identify the need to review the data, present proposals for improving goals and indicators, as well as demonstrate the progress made in each of the produce, Conserve and Include areas.
Monitoring platform
With the support of the Earth Innovation Institute, the PCI Monitoring Committee launched its platform, which provides a comprehensive dashboard to track PCI objectives.
The platform, through a dashboard, allows users to assess the state's situation and the progress of its goals, as well as to disseminate results through documents, including the annual publication of the Goals Balance. The platform also offers a detailed view of the state's performance over time and provides a spatial view to better understand how objectives can be achieved and shared in each of its 141 municipalities. Visit the platform website and learn more about the state's progress.
In 2020, the Monitoring Committee of the PCI Institute proposed a 5-year evaluation of the Strategy. Organizations that participated in the conception of the PCI or its Committee, including production representative entities, companies, civil society organizations, and state government agencies, were invited to participate in a participatory evaluation process carried out during the second semester of 2020. This process was conducted through webinars, questionnaires, and virtual workshops. The process was supported by ICV, a board member of the PCI Institute, and executed by Essência Processos Participativos.
Collaboratively, participating entities and partners of the PCI engaged in dialogue about the progress, challenges, lessons learned, results, and impacts of the goals in each of the three strategy axes – Produce, Conserve, and Include – and its management, with the aim of conducting an overall assessment of the PCI Strategy from 2015 to the present.
Guided by a reflective and participatory approach through dialogues in a remote environment, the participatory evaluation was structured in three stages:
- Introduction webinar of activities, held on 27/8/2020, on the Zoom platform.
- Online perception survey forms, available at the link https://sites.google.com/view/avaliapci/ from 31/8 to 8/10 of 2020, regarding: an overview of the PCI Strategy; each axis of the Strategy and its respective thematic agendas; and management.
- Remote workshops for each axis of the strategy and a general one, between October and November 2020.
When analyzing the set of goals for the Produce, Conserve, and Include axes, most entities, with the intention of improving the PCI Strategy, suggested the following proposals:
- Adjustments to 17 goals and 12 indicators;
- 15 new goals and 6 new indicators;
- 89 priority actions for implementing the goals in the three axes – Produce, Conserve, Include, and
- 38 priority actions for managing the Strategy in the monitoring agendas, investment capture, communication (internal and external), regionalization/connection with territory, and public-private governance and articulation.
With the proposals for improvements in goals and indicators received, the PCI Institute expects to launch a renegotiated vision of the Strategy for the period from 2020 to 2030 in 2021. The other results of the evaluation will be analyzed within the Monitoring Committee and will contribute to the definition of the PCI Goals for 2020-2025.
Review and update of goals
In the second half of 2021, with the support of ICV, the process of updating the PCI goals began, where six workshops were held with 28 entities involving a total of 47 people. The results of this process made it possible for the monitoring data gap to be reduced from 30% to 13%.
Territorial Intelligence Platform
In 2022, the PCI Institute, with the support of GIZ and under the coordination of ICV, launched the PCI Territorial Intelligence Network. The aim is to work towards building solutions based on technical-scientific knowledge, dialogue, participation, and transparency, focusing on generating data for the PCI Monitoring Committee, as well as solutions aimed at the territorial intelligence of the PCI.
Consultancy for pasture quality assessment
The consultancy mapped the quality of pastures in the state of Mato Grosso between 2015 and 2022. The work was carried out by the Laboratory of Image Processing and Geoprocessing (Lapig/UFG) and involved more than 72,000 samples via Landsat satellite (30m resolution) to develop the pasture map, as well as several field visits for validation. The results of the work indicated that the state has a smaller area of pastures than previously identified (17.7 million hectares compared to 21.1 million hectares) and that pasture degradation has been occurring at a faster rate than the area of recovery in the state as a whole. The work was financed by the PCI Institute in partnership with the Mato Grosso Meat Institute (IMAC).
Consultancy for surveying planted forest areas
The consultancy mapped the areas of planted forests as well as the expansion of planted forests over native vegetation areas in the state of Mato Grosso between 2015 and 2021. The work was carried out by the Mato Grosso Institute of Agricultural Economics (IMEA) and involved analysis of Landsat 8 satellite images as well as data obtained from on-site mapping conducted in 2019 by the IMEA team. The results indicated that the area of planted forests in the state (Eucalyptus and Teak) is smaller than initially identified (192,568 hectares compared to the 280,095 hectares indicated by IBGE).
Consultancy for collecting data on Family Farming
The consultancy collected data between 2015 and 2021 regarding the Gross Production Value (VBP) and Declaration of Aptitude for Pronaf (DAP) to provide the PCI Monitoring Committee with reliable information on the monitoring indicators of the PCI strategy, specifically related to the Include axis of the PCI. The work was carried out by LIS Consultoria with the support of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.
In 2023, Regenera Soluções Sustentáveis Consulting was hired by the PCI Institute with the aim of collecting data related to monitoring PCI goals at municipal level. In this work, it regenerates, collecting data for all 141 municipalities from 2015 to 2022. The work sought to gather information on the progress of PCI goals in the different regions of the state of Mato Grosso. The final objective was to provide information for decision-making on priority regions for technical and financial support from governments, companies and civil society.
