Effectiveness report 2020-2021

Abstract

The Effectiveness Report is the main product of the BNDES Effectiveness Monitoring and Evaluation System. Published every two years, it brings the main results obtained in the activities of monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the institution to contribute to the accountability to society and learning. This fifth edition of the Effectiveness Report addresses the 2020-2021 biennium. In this period, marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, the BNDES adopted a set of emergency actions to mitigate the effects of the crisis. It was also a period in which the project structuring services, which intensified at the BNDES from 2019, resulted in concessions and privatizations that have the potential to increase access and quality of public services. A novelty of this edition of the Effectiveness Report is the emphasis on the United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals (SDGs). Associating the performance, deliveries and evaluations to the SDGs helps to understand the Bank’s contribution to the 2030 Agenda. The report is organized into five chapters. The first one addresses the performance of the Brazilian economy in the period 2020-2021, in order to portray the context in which the BNDES operated in the biennium. The following chapter focuses on the BNDES’s effort, bringing numbers of its operations through financial support and service provision, which are the necessary means to generate deliveries to society. In turn, deliveries to society are the subject of the third chapter. They are presented by indicators of efficacy and effectiveness – two examples of indicators are “installed wind generation capacity” and “people who will have access to sanitation services with the auctioned projects.” The fourth chapter deals with evaluations of effectiveness, that is, studies that seek to identify the extent to which the objectives of support were achieved. In this chapter, the main highlights related to the evaluations carried out by the BNDES in the period are presented. Finally, the fifth chapter brings recommendations from monitoring and evaluation activities, in order to contribute to improve the institution’s performance.