Prointer 2025 – 3ª Edition
- October 6-8, 2025 – Online
- October 13-17, 2025 – In-person meetings
- December 5, 2025 – Online
About PROINTER
ProInter is an exchange program sponsored by the Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts (TCU). It is designed for female employees who hold, or aspire to hold, leadership positions in their Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs).Participants come from SAIs affiliated with the Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (OISC-CPLP), the TCU, and AFROSAI-E (the English-speaking subgroup of the African Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions).
The third edition of the Program is a hybrid event. It includes online activities from October 6 to 8, 2025, and in-person meetings in Pretoria, South Africa, from October 13 to 17, 2025.
The program’s main goal is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and experiences on key topics such as human rights, equity, diversity and inclusion, leadership, and gender-responsive budgeting. Additionally, it aims to develop strategies and share good practices for overseeing public policies aimed at human rights and equity, strengthening the role of women leaders in the international arena.
The program offers 40 vacancies, distributed as follows:
- Excludes TCU, as it vacancies are handled separately. ↩︎
- Excludes Angola and Mozambique, as they are covered by the OISC-CPLP quota. ↩︎
Target audience
Participants will be selected by their respective SAIs based on the following prerequisites:
- Be a woman;
- Be an employee of a member SAI of OISC-CPLP, AFROSAI-E, or a TCU server;
- Have a minimum of three years of continuous work experience in SAIs;
- Hold or aspire to hold a leadership position (team management) in the respective SAI;
- Have not participated in previous editions of the ProInter “Women in Leadership” program;
- Have not attended the “Women in Leadership Workshop” course taught by Professor Gisèle Szczyglak.
Schedule
| Selection Process Stage | Responsible Party | Deadline |
| Nomination of OISC/CPLP and AFROSAI-E participants by the heads of the SAIs | SAIs | Until 8/31/2025 |
| Registration of OISC/CPLP and AFROSAI-E participants | SAIs | From 8/31/2025 to 9/8/2025 |
| Registration for the TCU selection process | TCU | From 8/15/2025 to 8/29/2025 |
| Result of the selected TCU employee | TCU | 9/3/2025 |
Registration
For OISC-CPLP and AFROSAI-E participants
- The nomination of OISC-CPLP participants must be formalized via an official letter signed by the head of the institution. The letter should include the nominee’s name, position, and email address, and be sent to: dicor@tcu.gov.br;
- For AFROSAI-E participants, the nomination must be sent directly to the organization itself, which will be responsible for consolidating the information and forwarding it to the TCU, according to previously agreed-upon procedures;
- All participants will receive a link to access the electronic registration form via email, which must be duly completed by the deadline indicated in item 7 of the Call for Applications.
For TCU participants
- Registration must be done via the ISCnet system, by sending the duly completed registration form, accompanied by documents proving the participation requirements, as established in item 4 of the Call for Applications;
- The head of the candidate’s unit of assignment will be notified via email, automatically sent by the system, about the registration and, if they do not agree, may challenge it.;
- The confirmation of registrations and other information will be sent by email to the selected participants;
- Only registrations that meet all the requirements of the call for applications will be considered valid.
Selection and tiebreaker criteria for TCU employees
Selection will be based on the ranking of registered candidates in descending order of their score, according to the criteria defined in item 6 of the Call for Applications.
ISC CALL FOR APPLICATIONS NO. 33, AUGUST 18, 2025
Schedule
First Stage – Preparation (online) – October 6 to 8, 2025
- General presentation of the Program.
- Gender Mainstreaming: conceptual alignment and normative frameworks.
- Presentation of the UNDP Gender Seal.
- TCU’s experience in gender-perspective audits.
- Exchange of experiences between TCU, PROPALOP, and AFROSAI on the topic of gender within each entity.
Second Stage – Training (In-person) – October 13 to 17, 2025
- The relationship between budgetary decisions and the promotion of gender equality.
- TCU’s experience in implementing the UNDP Gender Equality Seal for Public Institutions.
- “Women in Leadership” course.
Third Stage – Consolidation (online) – December 5, 2025
- Submission of a final paper, approximately 1,800-2,200 words, with an analytical reflection addressing at least one of the following topics, without being limited to them:
- Main challenges and opportunities for greater female participation in leadership positions in your SAI.
- Main measures implemented by your SAI related to diversity, inclusion, and equity—whether within the internal institutional scope or in external control activities—especially from the participation of women in leadership positions.
- Impacts of national, regional, or international norms, policies, or programs related to gender equality and women’s empowerment within the internal institutional scope or in the external control activities of your SAI.
- Experiences with external control actions focused on gender equality, women’s empowerment, diversity, inclusion, or equity.
- Institutional budgets with a gender, diversity, inclusion, or equity perspective.
- Other topics that have been addressed within the scope of ProInter and that relate to gender equality, women’s empowerment, diversity, inclusion, or equity.
- Each SAI must submit a single final paper.
- Adjustments to the submitted papers may be requested, with a 10-day deadline for the adjustments.
- The paper must be submitted according to the model available on the program’s official microsite.
- The papers will be published on the program’s official microsite, with the aim of sharing good practices with other interested bodies and institutions.
Template
Contact us
OISC-CPLP and AFROSAI-E participants: dicor@tcu.gov.br
TCU employees: isc@tcu.gov.br