The Northern region of the country has mining as one of the drivers of its growth,
especially in the state of Pará, which stands out in terms of mining and revenue from the
Financial Compensation for Mineral Exploration (CFEM) in Brazil. In this context, the
objective of this research was to analyze the mechanisms available for society to monitor
the collection and application of the Financial Compensation for Mineral Resources
Exploration (CFEM) in the five largest mining municipalities in the state of Pará.
Methodologically, it was a research based on Social Systems Theory, of bibliographic and
documentary nature with empirical basis, as information on CFEM from the five main
revenue-generating municipalities in the state of Pará was collected through the official
pages of the studied municipalities, their respective transparency portals, and the official
website of the National Mining Agency - ANM, to assess the level of transparency on a
scale of 0 to 4 based on the research by Green and Giusti (2021). As results, it was found
that Parauapebas, Canaã dos Carajás, Itaituba, and Paragominas reached level 3 in the
studied years, while Marabá reached level 1 in the same period, meaning that despite the
legal obligations regarding access to information, no studied municipality managed to
achieve the highest level of transparency. Furthermore, there is a disparity in transparency
levels among the studied municipalities, indicating a lack of standardization. Thus, it was
verified that the main mechanism currently available for society to monitor the collection
and application of CFEM is the municipal Budget Law (LOA), meaning that only access to
planning, which indicates the value and location of public money investment for a year, is
possible, and there is no access to information about the actual collection and application.
Therefore, this study proposes as a product the information panel, which proves to be a
tool to achieve these objectives, allowing civil society to actively participate in the
oversight, monitoring, collection, application, and decision-making related to CFEM
resources.
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