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Project

Amazonia Cooperation+

Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (Sebrae)

Código do projeto: 7481085
Project official website

Presentation

Objective

To promote managerial and productive innovation among cooperatives operating in the socio-bioeconomy of the Legal Amazon, fostering cooperative development and expanding access to markets

Beneficiary

Extractivist cooperative members, quilombola communities, family farmers, agrarian reform settlers, and Indigenous peoples.

Territorial scope

In Cycle 1, the project will be implemented in the states of Maranhão, Pará, and Rondônia, covering the municipalities of Açailândia, Arari, Codó, Esperantinópolis, Estreito, Imperatriz, and Pedreiras (Maranhão); Abaetetuba, Belterra, Cametá, Igarapé-Miri, and Santarém (Pará); and Ariquemes, Cacoal, Ji-Paraná, and Porto Velho (Rondônia). In Cycle 2, implementation will be expanded to the states of Acre, Amazonas, and Pará, with the municipalities to be defined at a later stage

Description

CONTEXTUALIZATION

The challenge this project seeks to address can be summarized by three key characteristics of family farming and extractive activities in the Legal Amazon: low income levels, low rates of production mechanization, and lower levels of cooperative organization compared to other regions of Brazil.

The Amazonian socio-bioeconomy faces several structural bottlenecks that hinder its development and limit its ability to effectively overcome these challenges. These include the high physical demands of work, logistical complexity, limited availability of technical assistance, and lower levels of investment in Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I), among other factors typical of the Amazon region. Together, these constraints reduce market access opportunities and restrict revenue generation and income growth for local producers and communities.

THE PROJECT

The project is structured into the six components described below, including its main deliverables:

Component 1: Managerial Innovation

  • Implementation of the Local Innovation Agent for Cooperatives (ALI Coop) methodology in organizations across the Legal Amazon.
  • Consulting services focused on cooperative management and business development, including market readiness, access to credit, and regulatory compliance.
  • Support solutions aimed at innovation, digitalization, and process improvement through the Sebraetec Platform.
  • Leadership Skills Training Program.
  • Technical immersion visits to benchmark cooperatives.

Component 2: Productive Innovation

  • Expansion of the productive infrastructure of participating cooperatives through the acquisition of machinery and equipment.
  • Technical assistance focused on mechanization.
  • Productive technical support services for cooperative member families, with an emphasis on extractive production activities.

Component 3: Territorial Business Strategy

  • Strategic market analysis.
  • Territorial recognition and positioning strategy (place branding).
  • Establishment of a Business Development Office.

Component 4: Socio-Bioeconomy Challenges

  • Development and implementation of solutions to address key socio-bioeconomy challenges in the Amazon.

Component 5: Promotion of Cooperativism

  • Training activities on democratic governance practices and cooperative principles.
  • Cooperative hackathons focused on governance solutions.
  • Awareness-raising, training, and mentoring activities to attract and retain cooperative members.
  • Communication campaign to strengthen the cooperative culture of the Amazon.

Component 6: Management Component

  • Integration, monitoring, and systematization of project results.
  • Administrative and financial management.

Expected Results

  • Increased productive capacity of socio-bioeconomy cooperatives in the Legal Amazon.
  • Strengthened local cooperatives.
  • Expanded market access.
  • Increased rates of cooperative participation among Amazonian extractivist communities.
  • Higher income levels for cooperative member families.
  • Consolidation of business models that preserve the forest while strengthening sustainable economic alternatives to deforestation.

INTERVENTION LOGIC

The project is aligned with the “Economic activities that keep the forest standing are economically attractive” component of the Amazon Fund Logical Framework, contributing to the following direct outcomes: identification and development of sustainable economic activities based on the use of forests and biodiversity; expansion of value-added agroforestry and biodiversity product value chains; strengthening of managerial and technical capacities for the implementation of sustainable forest- and biodiversity-based economic activities; generation, dissemination, and application of knowledge and technologies aimed at biodiversity conservation, sustainable use of natural resources, deforestation monitoring and control, and territorial planning; and development, dissemination, and use of economic instruments that support biodiversity conservation, sustainable resource use, deforestation monitoring and control, and territorial planning. Through investments in innovation, cooperative strengthening, productive modernization, technical assistance, and market access, the project contributes to sustainable livelihoods for Amazonian communities while promoting forest conservation and strengthening economic alternatives to deforestation.
 

 

Evolution

Date of approval 03.23.2026
Date of the contract 07.23.2026
Date of conclusion 07.23.2030
approval
03.23.2026
award
07.23.2026
conclusion
07.23.2030

Disbursement

date amount
Total amount disbursed R$0.00

Total amount disbursed in relation to the Amazon Fund’s support

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Final Evaluation

Collection

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