Tá de Pé was a grassroots mobilization project to monitor the progress of the construction of nursery schools and schools financed by the federal government’s National Education Development Fund (FNDE) throughout Brazil, with the aim of providing civil society with a means of monitoring the execution of educational infrastructure projects and demanding greater accountability from public authorities.

Initially launched as an app, Tá de Pé allowed any citizen to access a list of nearby school buildings and anonymously send photos and information about the status of their construction works to Transparência Brasil. Together with partner specialists, the team determined whether there were signs of delays or stoppages in the work, which were then alerted and questioned by the institutions.

Tá de Pé was then incorporated into a Twitter profile (X), to which users could submit images of school construction work, and into a WhatsApp chatbot, from which citizens could access  a list of paralyzed construction works nearby, which they could visit and submit new information about construction status.

The methodology served as a reference for the Citizen Task Force for Public Works, a tool developed by the Federal Court of Auditors in partnership with the Brazilian Social Observatory, which trains volunteers across the country to identify problems in school construction and record the information in the Citizen Union app.