The COB set up GET in August 2017 to "support the improvement of the management of the Brazilian Sports Confederations, with a focus on governance, ethics and transparency".

GET assesses confederations through 295 questions, across six areas - governance, strategy, transparency, support processes, compliance and sports management.

Five Pan American Confederations and 34 Olympic entities are already a part of the GET initiative.

The CBDU said it welcomes the support, adding it felt it needed to modernise its "management, transparency and compliance procedures".

CBDU vice-president Alim Maluf Neto said: "The opportunity to participate in a project that guides, assesses and suggests improvements and is also offered by the COB will be of great value to CBDU. 

"For many years, the COB was our evaluator and filter in our rendering of accounts, when the appeal passed through the committee. 

"We are very pleased to participate in a broader programme, which not only checks how CBDU's management is doing, but also offers lectures, webinars and provides access to evaluators. 

"It was a unanimous decision at CBDU and we thank COB for giving us this opportunity to participate in the GET programme."

COB director general Rogério Sampaio said the CBDU is vital to sport's development in Brazil, highlighting its role in the Universiade and providing young athletes for continental and world championships. 

Sampaio added: "The CBDU is an extremely important entity in the development of competitive sport in the country by encouraging and supporting athletes at the peak of their physical fitness, of their fullness of competition, while they study. 

"And it is one of the values that COB supports: studying with sport development."

Sampaio concluded: "Having the CBDU as a partner of the COB is very important."

Paula Neri, manager of the GET Program, explained how the process will work.

Neri said: "We started the diagnostics phase by answering all 295 questions on the GET platform. 

"Even though the CBDU does not receive financial support from the COB, the Confederation will be subject to the same rules for participation in the program as the other Olympic Confederation."