The SETA Project alliance includes ActionAid, Ação Educativa, National Campaign for the Right to Education, CONAQ, GELEDÉS, Makira-E’ta and UNEafro Brasil, recognized organizations committed to working in the field of anti-racist education. Also, at the same time, is the centrality of actions with black, quilombola and indigenous people, particularly girls and women, as well as teachers and other actors in the school community. At the international level, ActionAid joins experts from different regions of the world to understand and influence global anti-racist education.
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ActionAid is an international Federation that works for social justice, gender and ethnic-racial equity and the end of poverty in more than 45 countries through partnerships with other organizations and social movements. Founded in 1972, and based in Brazil since 1999 as a Brazilian organization, it is the co-manager of the SETA Project and carries out national and international coordination, produces research, promotes training, supports campaigns and monitors the project.
Ação Educativa is a non-profit civil association, founded in 1994, a reference in Brazil for its work in the areas of youth education and culture, from the perspective of human rights. Its mission is to promote democracy, social justice and socio-environmental sustainability in Brazil. It works at SETA producing research, training and public mobilizations.
The National Campaign for the Right to Education is considered the broadest and most plural articulation in the field of education in Brazil, constituting a network that articulates hundreds of groups and entities distributed throughout the country. The Campaign’s mission is to work towards the implementation and expansion of educational policies so that all people have guaranteed their right to free, inclusive, secular and quality public education in Brazil.
UNEafro Brasil convenes and mobilizes groups of young black people, activists and promoters, including teachers, university professors and researchers in defense of themes related to anti-racism, feminist and community leadership, sexual diversity, the right to education and the fight against all types of discrimination. Among the highlights are the community pre-university courses that serve young people and adults from public schools, primarily black, who dream of entering Higher Education and preparing for the ENEM or Public Exams.
CONAQ (National Coordination of Black Rural Quilombola Communities) is a nationwide organization that represents the vast majority of quilombolas in Brazil. It fights for the implementation of sustainable development projects, for the implementation of public policies taking into account the organization of quilombo communities; for quality education consistent with the way of living in quilombos; for the agency and autonomy of quilombola women; for the young person’s permanence in the quilombo and, above all, for the common use of the territory, natural resources and for being in harmony with the environment.
Makira E’ta – Network of Indigenous Women of the State of Amazonas is an independent civil society organization (OSC), without political-party ties, with non-economic purposes, founded in 2017. It is marked by the constant struggle for political and social rights and the agency of indigenous women.
GELEDÉS Black Women’s Institute founded on April 30, 1988. It is a civil society organization that stands in defense of women and black people as it understands that these two social segments suffer from disadvantages and discrimination in access to social opportunities due to racism and of sexism in Brazilian society.
We recognize that race does not operate alone as a basis for structural inequality, which is why the SETA Project takes an intersectional approach. This approach is driven by four of our partners who directly represent our priority groups: black rights movements across Brazil (UNEafro), black women (GELEDÉS), indigenous women and Makira-E’ta indigenous rights, and quilombola rights (CONAQ) .
Internationally, the SETA project has partnered with the pioneering Center for Comparative and International Research in Education (CIRE) at the University of Bristol’s School of Education, whose researchers have been leading work on decolonizing education and anti-racist education theory and practice in school systems across the world. the world. To stimulate debate and action in key global spaces, SETA works closely with the Global Campaign for Education, with regional education coalitions in Africa (ANCEFA), Asia (ASPBAE) and Latin America (CLADE), with Education International (the teachers’ union federation), with the Right to Education Initiative (a consolidated reference in educational rights), and with the recently emerged Global Student Forum.
The W.K. Foundation Kellogg (WKKF) announced in 2020, the year in which it celebrated 90 years of history, the 2030 Racial Equity Challenge, a competition launched to promote initiatives that foster an equitable society for children, families and communities around the world.
The Challenge received 1,453 entries from 72 countries, and in September 2021, 10 finalists were announced. Each received an investment for the planning phase and 9 months of training. In October 2022, the SETA Project and four other projects were selected to receive, together, 80 million dollars over 8 years, to be completed by 2030, on the Foundation’s 100th anniversary.
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Improvement and implementation of public education policies that guarantee quality, equity and contextualized provision, through influence and/or support for policy makers and educational authorities at all levels, thus ensuring the implementation of anti-racist and sensitive public educational policies to gender. These policies must consider the axes of strengthening the legal frameworks of anti-racist education, training programs for education professionals, production of teaching and para-teaching material, democratic management and social participation, monitoring and evaluation of equity indicators and institutional conditions with financial investments , human and material.
Intergenerational dialogue about racism, gender and education is developed in homes, schools, workplaces and in the media through national dialogue and advocacy on issues in education and society. Thus, intolerance to racism, gender-based violence, inequalities and rights violations will be built and the defense of the promotion of social, racial and gender justice in Brazilian society will be built.
Black, quilombola and indigenous children, young people and students involved in transforming communities and school culture, so that they are anti-racist and equitable, ensuring the recognition of their knowledge and protagonism as essential elements to achieve the expected changes.
THE SETA PROJECT – EDUCATION SYSTEM FOR AN ANTI-RACIST TRANSFORMATION IS A PROJECT SUPPORTED BY THE W. K. KELLOGG FOUNDATION, SINCE 2021, WHICH BRINGS TOGETHER NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ACTING TOGETHER FOR AN ANTI-RACIST AND QUALITY PUBLIC EDUCATION.
