## Notes from 21 September 2025 [[2025-09-20|← Previous note]] ┃ [[2025-09-22|Next note →]] At the very end of August, [República.org](https://republica.org/emdados/conteudo/benchmark-internacional-de-gestao-do-desempenho/) published a document I was commissioned to prepare: a desk research that brings together information on performance management systems in Chile, Uruguay, Portugal, the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. I’m grateful to República.org for commissioning the work and for the thoughtful exchanges along the way. The exercise was modest in scope: the main goal was to gather sources already available, place them side by side, and try to classify and compare them in a way that might make patterns easier to notice. It is not meant to be an original contribution, but rather an attempt to make scattered materials more accessible in a single document (written in Portuguese!) I will also be publishing two new notes for the '[República em Notas](https://republica.org/emnotas/conteudo/erosao-institucional-brasileira-mecanismos-de-protecao-do-merito-na-funai-no-ibama-e-no-incra/)' series that draw on the findings of this benchmark. I am a returning contributor to the series, which features short reflections on human-capital issues in the public sector. This work comes amid a renewed debate on public sector reform in Brazil, spurred by the [creation of a working group](https://valorinternational.globo.com/politics/news/2025/05/22/lower-house-revives-debate-on-administrative-reform.ghtml) by the Speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress. This initiative has mobilized many civil society actors seeking to inform and enrich the discussion.