HUB Pacto Federativo 2030: website and municipal data monitor for IDS

IDS and its partners spent years debating how municipalities can lead on the 2030 Agenda and the response to the climate crisis. The result was a set of proposals to revise the Federative Pact, the division of powers and resources among Brazil's federal, state and municipal governments. What was missing was a place where this knowledge was easy to find and use. The audience was demanding and diverse, from mayors short on time to members of Congress who don't follow environmental issues, and the client asked for a more sober identity, able to engage a more conservative Congress.

Before designing, we listened to the people who would use it. We interviewed a researcher, two legislators and a former mayor and professor. The conversations revealed time pressure, information overload and a lack of practical arguments. As a result, the site got short copy, proposals organized by theme and linked to the SDGs, a library and a news section.

The centerpiece is the Monitor: a layered map of Brazil showing states, municipalities, intermunicipal consortia and river basin committees. Each municipality opens a profile with its data. So that IDS can keep everything up to date on its own, we built a spreadsheet import dashboard and recorded 16 tutorials. The project closed with an infographic summarizing the Federative Pact, in versions for internal and external audiences, in Portuguese and English.

The HUB went live in 2023 and the Monitor was released in January 2024, with data on every Brazilian municipality. In 2026, IDS came back to Forest for a new digital data platform.