Development Co‑operation Profiles: Brazil
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Brazil’s international development co-operation is a key part of its foreign policy. Brazil implements its development co-operation through different South-South co‑operation modalities based on a set of principles, inter alia, respect for national sovereignty, non‑interference in the internal affairs of other countries and non-conditionality. Brazil has a dual role in development co-operation, acting as both a beneficiary and a provider. It provides development co‑operation through bilateral, trilateral, multilateral and regional modalities.
This profile presents verified data on Brazil’s development assistance allocation. See the Development Co-operation Profiles.
Brazil’s technical co-operation and humanitarian co-operation are complementary instruments of its foreign policy, both grounded in constitutional principles of international solidarity and non-intervention and operationalised through capacity building for sustainable development (technical co-operation) and emergency relief in crisis situations (humanitarian co-operation), as set out in the Manual of South-South Technical Co-operation Management (2017). Brazil’s bilateral technical co-operation is implemented under bilateral framework agreements for technical co-operation, in response to specific requests received from these countries’ governments. It is governed by South-South co-operation principles and marked by its distinctive contribution towards strengthening Brazil’s ties with its partner countries.
Brazil engages with multilateral organisations, including with the OECD as a Key Partner and in various OECD committees. Brazil’s active role in the Group of Twenty (G20) reflects its commitment to multilateral co-operation. During its 2024 G20 presidency, Brazil advocated for a stronger role of the G20 in support of the 2030 Agenda, advancing innovative financing schemes for sustainable development, supporting localisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and prioritising poverty and hunger eradication, inequality reduction, and trilateral co-operation. In this context, Brazil launched a new Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty (see Box 1). Brazil also held the Presidency of COP30 in Belém.
Fighting inequality, poverty and hunger was at the forefront of Brazil’s priorities during its 2024 G20 presidency. As part of this effort, Brazil established the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty. Officially launched in November 2024 at the G20 Leaders Summit in Rio de Janeiro with 148 founding members, its membership continues to grow.
The Global Alliance aims to galvanise high-level political commitment to eradicate hunger and poverty worldwide (SDGs 1 and 2) while reducing inequalities (SDG 10). It builds upon synergies with existing initiatives while also mobilising and aligning domestic and international support, including financial resources and knowledge, to enable country-led implementation of development programmes. The Global Alliance is composed of a reference basket of policy instruments with three constituent pillars: a national pillar, a financial pillar and a knowledge pillar. Each pillar is responsible for gathering resources and experience and channelling them to where they are needed the most. The Global Alliance’s governance structure supports and guides its three pillars. It is composed of its members, the Summit against Hunger and Poverty, the Board of Champions, the Support Mechanism and the Global Alliance entry points. The OECD is represented on the Board of Champions by its Director of Development Co‑operation.
Brazil is a member of the International Forum on Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD). Brazil started reporting on TOSSD for the first time in 2021 on its 2020 activities, and the latest information available covers 2023. The country has substantially enlarged the scope of its TOSSD reporting by including subnational entities’ co-operation.
In 2023, Brazil reported USD 2.6 billion in support of sustainable development, of which USD 49.1 million was cross-border resources to TOSSD recipients. Around 60 national and subnational entities participated in Brazil’s TOSSD reporting on activities in 2023.
In 2023, Brazil’s support for sustainable development mainly contributed to advancing SDG 3 (good health and well-being), SDG 16 (peace, justice and strong institutions) and SDG 17 (partnerships for the Goals).
In 2023, Brazil allocated USD 30.2 million (62%) of TOSSD as cross-border resources in support of 79 countries and territories. Partners receiving the largest support included Mozambique, Angola, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Chile. Most cross-border flows were provided to Latin America and the Caribbean (37%) and Africa (29%). Twelve per cent (USD 5.9 million) of Brazil’s cross-border resources had a regional scope while 26% (USD 12.9 million) were unallocated by region.
In 2023, USD 30.9 million (63%) of Brazil’s cross-border resources targeted social infrastructure and services in TOSSD recipients, with a particular focus on education (USD 17 million; 35%). One-fifth (20%) of Brazil’s cross-border flows targeted production sectors.
Brazil engages in triangular co-operation. Its main beneficiaries in 2023 were countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and in Southern Africa (through regional activities), Guinea-Bissau, and Kenya.
The main sectors of its triangular co‑operation are agriculture, forestry and fishing; government and civil society; and education. Brazil disbursed USD 11.8 million of TOSSD in 2023.
Learn more about triangular co-operation.
The Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC), a part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE), is the entity responsible for planning, co-ordinating, negotiating, approving, implementing, monitoring and evaluating Brazil’s international technical co-operation and humanitarian assistance. The MRE created ABC in 1987 to be the designated entity in charge of managing Brazil’s development co-operation. Since 2017, ABC also co-ordinates Brazil’s humanitarian co-operation. Brazilian South-South co-operation often reflects collaboration with public sector institutions and subnational entities, the private sector, and civil society. Brazil is also engaged in educational and scientific co-operation through initiatives directly implemented by more than 100 public higher education institutions and other federal and state-level public institutions that sponsor foreign/national students and researchers.
The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development placed a renewed emphasis on strengthening the effectiveness of all forms of development co-operation by upholding and elevating the Effectiveness Principles. Adherence to these principles is measured through the partner country-led monitoring exercise of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation. Brazil participated in the 2023-2026 monitoring round through its reporting to one partner country, Honduras. Its results can be found here.
Access the full list of providers of development co-operation at: Development Co-operation Profiles.
Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC): www.gov.br/abc/en.
Brazilian Cooperation Agency (2017), Manual of South-South Technical Co-operation Management, https://www.gov.br/abc/pt-br/centrais-de-conteudo/publicacoes/documentos/manualsouthsouthtc_2017_.pdf.
COBRADI: https://www.ipea.gov.br/portal/cobradi/publicacoes (in Portuguese).
Since 2007, Brazil has been one of the OECD’s five Key Partners. On 25 January 2022, the OECD Council decided to open accession discussions with Brazil and on 10 June 2022 adopted a Roadmap for the OECD Accession of Brazil.
Brazil is an Adherent to the DAC Recommendation on Good Pledging Practice; the OECD Recommendation of the Council on Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas; and the OECD Recommendation of the Council for Development Co-operation Actors on Managing the Risk of Corruption. Learn more about OECD legal instruments and DAC Recommendations.
Brazil participated in the first Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Regional Programme Dialogue on Development Co-operation in 2024; the DAC High Level Meeting and the 2025 LAC-DAC Co-Lab on Multidimensional Metrics for Development in 2025; and in several meetings of the DAC and the DAC ENVIRONET in 2025 and 2026.
Brazil is a member of the International TOSSD Task Force. It has been reporting to TOSSD since 2022, on 2020 data.
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