Abstract

TOZATO, Heloisa de Camargo et al. Policy Impact Assessment: The PIBIC/ICMBio Case Study in Brazil. Avaliação (Campinas) [online]. 2020, vol.25, n.3, pp.676-700.  Epub Oct 30, 2020. ISSN 1982-5765.  https://doi.org/10.1590/s1414-40772020000300009.

Evidence-based impact assessment has a great potential to support decision making, improve the public policy cycle and support its transparency. Given this perspective, the present research had the objective of develop it using, as a case study, the Institutional Program of Scientific Initiation Scholarships of the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (PIBIC/ICMBio), which completed 10 years of implementation in Brazil. The Program is the ICMBio's tool to clarify which knowledge or information is essential to boost intervention actions for the Brazilian biodiversity management. The evaluation was based on documentary research, participant observation, the formulation of the result chain, consultation with key actors and the development of thematic cartography. The results showed the achievement of the PIBIC/ICMBio objectives; its relevance to other attributions of ICMBio; its coherence with the main Brazilian policies of fomentation and execution programs of research, protection, preservation and conservation of the biodiversity and of environmental education; its efficiency in relation to the costs involved; its added value ; and its potential for the Brazilian know-how to support decision making on biodiversity management and conservation.

Keywords : Undergraduate research; Social and environmental formation; Evidence-based analysis.

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