In 2023, the Ministry of Labor quinturated the amounts for NGOs through agreements and partnerships, jumping from R $ 25 million in the previous year to R $ 132 million. A considerable part of the resources came from parliamentary amendments, and four of the most benefited ten entities have ties with the trade union movement – among them, Unisol, a central founded with the support of the ABC Metalworkers Union, from which the current Minister Luiz Marinho (PT) came up. The survey is from the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo.
Unisol, the third largest beneficiary of the current management, signed contracts that total R $ 17.6 million with the folder. Of this total, R $ 15.8 million went to organizer organizers and waste removal in indigenous lands in Roraima, with federal government resources aimed at the humanitarian crisis in Yanomami Land.
Arildo Mota Lopes, president of Unisol, joined the board of the Metallurgical Union under Marine Command between 2002 and 2005. The ministry stated that the contract stems from a public call evaluated by specialist bank and that most of the resources are impositive amendments, defined by parliamentarians.
The NGO that received the most resources was the Brazil Digital Public Policy Institute, with R $ 36.1 million in contracts supported by Tocantins bench amendments. Four of these contracts are under investigation by the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU), which pointed to evidence of collusion in proposals and non-compliance with goals, generating estimated loss of R $ 1.6 million to the treasury. The entity had the transfers suspended.
The second entity with more contracts is the Brazilian Institute of Citizenship and Social Action, with R $ 25.9 million. The NGO was declared unhealthy by the Ministry of Women after evaluation by CGU and is prevented from celebrating new agreements with the government. The contracts in force, supported by Roraima amendments, are frozen.
According to the Ministry of Labor, all agreements were signed based on the legislation in force at the time of hiring and the folder awaits new CGU opinions to decide the next steps. The CGU, in turn, pointed to fragility in the mechanisms of control and monitoring of the covenants signed by the folder.
