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Special edition: lessons learned that drive Fundo Vale forward |
We have reached the 50ᵗʰ edition of our newsletter in a particularly meaningful month: September, when we celebrate Amazon Day in Brazil. We are reminded that there are no simple or isolated solutions capable of addressing the scale and complexity involved in protecting this biome, which is essential to regulating the global climate.
The risks associated with climate change have been on Vale’s decision-making agenda for years, and forests are one of the company’s areas of focus. Vale helps protect 800,000 hectares in the Amazon, where it has operated for more than 40 years.
In 2009, Fundo Vale was created to expand this strategy by generating value and positive social and environmental impact from standing forests. Over the last 17 years, we have been relentless in listening to stakeholders and gathering data and evidence to understand the impact of our technical and financial support strategies.
In 2020, we reached an important milestone, when we reorganized our work around a systemic vision. This edition is also special because it features content about our 2020–2025 Impact Report, which looks closely at our experience since we adopted our 2030 Theory of Change.
The numbers show part of the scale of this journey, but our focus is on translating accumulated experience into lessons. One of the key points is that providing capital to promising initiatives is important, but it is not enough to overcome all the barriers involved in long-cycle efforts such as restoring land through sustainable systems and generating value from sociobiodiversity value chains.
At New York Climate Week, some initiatives already operating at significant scale in areas such as agroforestry and silvopastoral systems, conservation through REDD+ and the generation of high-integrity carbon credits—all supported by Fundo Vale to some degree—shared their strategies for financial viability.
This is the path forward. Transforming the relationship between the economy and nature requires evidence-based decisions, knowledge sharing and the flexibility to adjust course.
Standing forests provide a solid foundation for value creation, fair and inclusive social development, climate resilience, regional economic diversification and competitiveness for Brazil. Sustainability is the only possible path to this future.
We hope you enjoy this edition.
Patrícia Daros
Director, Fundo Vale
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Fundo Vale launches 2020–2025 Impact Report
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Between 2020 and 2025, Fundo Vale supported 169 initiatives and 887 impact businesses, mobilized R$576 million and contributed to the restoration of 25,364 hectares. The report presents results and lessons from the past five years of work on the bioeconomy, land restoration and the social and environmental impact ecosystem. Resource mobilization is a highlight: every R$1 invested by Fundo Vale leveraged around R$5.90 from other sources.
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Structuring Impact Businesses and the Complexity of Support
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This study analyzes the trajectory of impact businesses supported by Fundo Vale and brings together strategic lessons to strengthen initiatives and improve support mechanisms for the impact ecosystem |
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Strengthening to Transform
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This Fundo Vale study, conducted by Move Social, shows how support for ecosystem enablers expands social and environmental impact in local communities |
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Initiatives associated with Vale’s 2030 Forest Goal came together at a panel to present results from agroforestry and silvopastoral systems, forest conservation through REDD+, forest restoration and carbon credit generation, with a focus on scaling up |
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Latimpacto’s annual conference brought together leaders from 40 countries in Manaus to connect intentions, capital, stakeholders and communities, and boost social and environmental impact in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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Strategy, management and impact manager, Fundo Vale.
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1. In this edition, Fundo Vale presents its 2020–2025 Impact Report, which analyzes its interim results based on its 2030 Theory of Change. Why was this methodology chosen?
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We wanted to turn our impact vision into a strategy guided by objectives, strategies and verifiable results. The Theory of Change is a visual map that describes the impact pathway expected from the work of an organization, portfolio, program, project (initiative) or strategy. It is widely used by civil society organizations, impact businesses, investors, multilateral organizations and governments. It is a tool that shows what we will do, how we will do it, what results we intend to achieve and how we can contribute to long-term environmental and social transformations. In this way, it helps guide priorities, allocate resources with greater focus, transparency and methodological rigor, and track progress over time. It is a tool that facilitates work on complex agendas where results require the coordination of multiple stakeholders and take shape over the medium and long term.
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2. What changed in Fundo Vale’s work following its strategic review in 2020? |
We have maintained our work in multiple areas but reorganized it into a strategy structured around the 5Cs: building capacities, providing and unlocking financial capital, catalyzing social and environmental impact businesses, contributing to Vale’s commitments on the forest and climate agendas, and participating in coalitions to strengthen the impact ecosystem. In short, we began working with greater integration across different fronts, a systemic portfolio perspective, a willingness to test new financial models, and greater rigor in generating, measuring and scaling up social and environmental impact.
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3. What is GIMPACT and how does it relate to Fundo Vale’s strategy?
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GIMPACT is the impact measurement and management model developed by Fundo Vale to manage, measure and demonstrate the results and impacts of its initiatives until 2030, with a focus on efficiency, transparency and governance. It combines quantitative indicators and qualitative analysis to understand how we are contributing to catalyzing businesses, strengthening initiatives and organizations, unlocking financial capital, advancing the forest and climate agendas and promoting positive social and environmental impact. By bringing together evidence, we can identify bottlenecks and recalibrate strategies. The model also encourages and expands an impact measurement and management culture among businesses and partners, which is reflected in the quality of data that can help them raise funding from other sources. Objectives that guide Fundo Vale’s impact measurement and management: make evidence-based decisions; track its impact performance; maintain transparent relationships with its stakeholders; ensure impact intentionality when scaling up solutions; and generate learning and contribute to practices in the field.
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For 10 years, the Origens Brasil® network has been creating ways to recognize and value forest peoples, their territories, cultures and ways of life, strengthening an economy that combines sociobiodiversity and Amazon conservation. Created to bring together companies committed to new development models with Indigenous peoples and traditional communities,
To celebrate this journey, the network held a large gathering in Belém and launched a special magazine, with support from Fundo Vale. Watch the video below, in which stories, images and voices bring this collective effort to life and show the paths opening up for the years ahead.
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How many Amazons are there within the Amazon? The region encompasses different territories, peoples, histories, knowledge and forms of expression that reveal its diversity. This plurality is showcased by the Cooperation for the Amazon movement in the Cultural Atlas of the Amazons, a collaborative platform that brings together more than 650 artists, producers and cultural leaders.
The initiative allows users to discover artists, their journeys and their work across different fields and locations, raising the visibility of the many cultural expressions found throughout the Amazon region.
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Fundo Vale’s priority is to ensure the protection and privacy of our data, so we have reinforced our commitments regarding the collection, storage, treatment and sharing of our personal data, in accordance with Brazil’s General Data Protection Law. |
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