{"id":3604,"date":"2021-11-26T14:29:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T17:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redecomua.org.br\/?p=3604"},"modified":"2023-08-12T16:53:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T19:53:01","slug":"producao-de-conhecimento-pandemia-e-os-rumos-da-filantropia-brasileira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-wyy8bhlsif5v8gukfr0yhxue.studio.tikovolpe.com.br\/en\/producao-de-conhecimento-pandemia-e-os-rumos-da-filantropia-brasileira\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge production, pandemic and the direction of Brazilian philanthropy"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Erika Sanchez Saez<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

We will spend years, perhaps centuries, studying and analyzing what we, as humanity, have been experiencing since the beginning of 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are those who say that the pandemic marks the transition and the true beginning of the 21st century, just as the First World War established and materialized what it meant to be in the 20th century. There are optimistic analyzes that see this period as a possibility for transition to make the changes we so desperately need. There are also pessimists, who point to this as the first of many pandemics to come and the worsening of all our common challenges from it, starting with the deepening of inequalities on a global scale and in a frightening way in the Brazilian context.<\/span><\/p>\n

Preferences aside, anything is possible. What will happen to the world and in Brazil after the Covid-19 pandemic is our collective responsibility and can go in many directions. This perspective gives us power and at the same time a lot of responsibility. Especially at a historical moment when the health crisis exacerbates so many other crises and threats. <\/span><\/p>\n

To use this power with the greatest possible awareness, we need to produce and systematize knowledge that feeds, guides and inspires us. Even though it is easier to analyze the past, the pandemic has made us more aware than ever that our power is in the now and that, therefore, it is essential that we are able to produce data and knowledge in an agile, articulated, complementary way. and collaborative, which guides us and contributes to decision-making.<\/span><\/p>\n

And when we look at a specific topic, such as the action of philanthropy and private social investment (ISP), the dynamics apply in a similar way based on their nuances and specificities.<\/span><\/p>\n

In March 2020, when we understood that the pandemic had arrived in Brazil, I received the invitation to coordinate GIFE's emergency actions front and, thus, for a year I closely followed the actions of Brazilian philanthropy and civil society organized in a broad, throughout the first year of the pandemic. O gif<\/a> \u2013 Group of Institutes Foundations and Companies, brings together philanthropic organizations \u2013 or private social investment (ISP) \u2013 whether they are institutes or foundations of family, business or independent origin or companies that work by contributing voluntarily to solve collective problems. The organization, which works to promote the strengthening and qualification of philanthropy and ISP in Brazil through strategies that range from the production of knowledge to the promotion of coordination, understood that it had a fundamental role to play, given that the context of humanitarian catastrophe that beginning to take shape was in itself a call to action in the sector.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although part of organized civil society, philanthropic actors occupy a very special place within the group. Unlike the vast majority of organizations, philanthropy has its own financial resources, with broad \u2013 albeit varied \u2013 freedom to use them, in addition to a high degree of power and influence. This characteristic is crucial for understanding the sector and its relationship with other agents that work in the public sphere with the aim of addressing common challenges. And the pandemic was no different. However, the pandemic and emergency context, as well as in all dimensions of existence, changed the dynamics of philanthropy and ISP operations in Brazil.<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of the initiatives of GIFE Covid Emergency Project<\/a>, organized into 5 axes of action, we designed a front dedicated to producing knowledge and analyzes about the performance of philanthropy and ISP in the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n

For this front, we built five main actions: (1) mapping and access to a curation of publications on the emergency action of philanthropy and ISP in the pandemic available on Synapse<\/a>, (2) a assessment rubric platform<\/a> to support organizations in evaluating their emergency actions, (3) a search with general data<\/a> on the performance of philanthropic organizations, (4) the production of a book with an analysis of GIFE<\/a> on the sector's response and the impact of the pandemic on its ways of doing things and (5) the promotion of 5 studies<\/a> carried out by actors in the sector who analyzed specific themes and complementary to the publication that GIFE subscribes to. All of them can be accessed at Sinapse, the GIFE virtual library<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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