Invitee research

Research on NGOs, government agencies, social movements working in POA around resiliency, and in BH around food justice, urban and sustainable agriculture. Extra links included.

Porto Alegre

NGOs to invite:

Promising

Porto Alegre Resiliente

http://portoalegreresiliente.org/a-rede/ http://portoalegreresiliente.org/2015/06/ Porto Alegre Resiliente Facbeook Group: https://www.facebook.com/portoalegreresiliente/timeline - 337 members

CEPED-RS (Centro de Pesquisas e Estudos sobre Desastres no Rio Grande do Sul) http://www.ufrgs.br/cepedrs/cepedrs/Sobre_o_CEPED_RS.html http://www.ufrgs.br/english/the-university/news/ufrgs2019-research-center-presents-maps-of-areas-at-risk-in-eight-cities-of-rio-grande-do-sul alepassuello@gmail.com (from Facebook page) https://www.facebook.com/pages/CepedRS-UFRGS/713080458769590?sk=info&tab=page_info) Partners page: http://www.ufrgs.br/cepedrs/cepedrs/Parceiros.html

GRID: Gestão de Risco de Desastres (Risk Management for Disasters): http://www.ufrgs.br/grid Staff list: http://www.ufrgs.br/grid/o-grupo

Centro de Inteligencia Urbana – Ciupoa http://www.ciupoa.org.br/ https://www.facebook.com/CentroDeInteligenciaUrbanaCiupoa/timeline The Intelligence Center City of Porto Alegre (CIUPOA) is a non-governmental organization concerned with providing sustainable solutions for cities, as well as assist them in adapting to climate change. Our mission is to create collaborative networks with governments, universities, communities, NGOs, Foundations and Private Enterprise. In search of greater community resilience hence higher resilience of cities. We believe that strong alliances and broad popular participation are required to obtain success in the great transformations. We work a proposal to prevent the territory and society with a background panorama with Climate Change.

Defessa Civil de Porto Alegre http://www2.portoalegre.rs.gov.br/codec/default.php https://www.facebook.com/DefesaCivilPortoAlegre?fref=ts To reduce disasters, from prevention to recovery, Civil Defense carries out its activities in four phases: • Preventive: Developed in normal times, it is extremely important phase, as the time of preparation of plans and drills, for the development and improvement of self-defense system, as the risks of each region or municipality. • Relief: the work of this phase act directly on the effects of the event and are designed with coordinated employment of trained personnel from various agencies involved, according to pre-established plans. It is the stage, for example, the extinction of the fire victims rescues, evacuation etc. • Assistance: the work of assistance phase occur concurrently or shortly after the violent impact of the emergency. They are in the shelter, food and medical assistance to the affected population. • Recuperative: the recuperative phase in the works for repairs of damage is the longest and costly. It is the period of the investment, in order to return to normality of the affected area, restoring the previous conditions of community life. At this time, closes the emergency service cycle and begins the new disaster prevention. At any stage of this work is the regime of cooperation between levels of government and the community, with maximum use of available resources.

Porto Alegre - Democracia Participativa e Inclusão Social http://www.ongportoalegre.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5&Itemid=68 The general objectives of the NGO Porto Alegre - Participatory Democracy and Social Inclusion are: • strive for the promotion of ethics, peace, citizenship, human rights, democracy, social inclusion and other universal values; • promote and realize publications, seminars, courses and debates cycles on participatory democracy, culture of peace, citizenship, human rights, social inclusion and public administration; • conduct research and propose public policies that contribute to participatory management practices and social inclusion through partnerships with universities, non-governmental organizations and local governments; • contribute to the consolidation of democratic institutions and civil society, constituting a network of collaboration and exchange between non-governmental organizations dedicated to the promotion of rights and citizenship; • establish and systematize a database on innovative experiments in participatory public administration, in particular the 16 years of experience of the People's Administration in Porto Alegre.

ONG Cidade (Center for Advice and Urban Studies) http://www.ongcidade.org/site.php?/page/id/21 https://www.facebook.com/pages/ONG-Cidade/282432495163704?sk=timeline Objectives: • Be agent of building a new city, where access be given the right, not the market. • Contribute to ensuring the right to citizenship, city, housing and autonomy of popular movements. • Contribute to the effective participation of the population in city management. • To monitor systematically the policies and action of popular organizations within the urban issues, seeking to strengthen and qualify the action of the popular movement.

Potential Research Group on Community Psychology at Federal University of RGDS: http://www.ufrgs.br/gppc/projetos-de-pesquisa/ The Group of Research in Community Psychology of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - GPPC / UFRGS, works as a teaching lab, research and extension, developing projects, programs, extension programs, research and teaching, forming university, collaborating with training social and intervening in health promotion programs among children and young agents. It produces materials focused on Psychosocial Intervention (programs, videos, articles, books ...) and the development of psychosocial research methodologies.

Military Firefighters of RGDS: http://www.bombeiros-bm.rs.gov.br/

Extra stuff POA: Interesting, but not local to RGDS: Brazilian Defessa Civil: Integrated of Disaster-related Information http://s2id.mi.gov.br/ LIST OF ALL NGOS IN POA: http://www.ongsbrasil.com.br/default.asp?Pag=1&Destino=Instituicoes&Estado=RS&Cidade=Porto%20Alegre Interesting DV app used in RGDS: http://www.sul21.com.br/jornal/em-formacao-sobre-violencia-domestica-mulheres-da-restinga-testam-aplicativo-que-auxilia-vitimas/

BELO HORIZONTE

RUAF (Dutch NGO that supports urban agriculture: http://www.ruaf.org/)

-CFF (Cities Farming for the Future Program)

http://www.ruaf.org/sites/default/files/UAM%2025-Creating%20the%20Urban%20Agriculture%2021-24.pdf Urban Agriculture Action Plan; has list of staff

From Seed to Table (grows vegetables for municipal public schools)

The project, together with the farmers, proposed innovations on the organization of groups and parts of the production and marketing of products, with the ultimate goal of improving the entire production chain. In this way it intends to increase the benefits that farmers receive for their agricultural activity and improve the sustainability of their production systems. To achieve its goal, some points will be worked out: • A quick analysis of the market to choose products with high commercial potential, since fitting well in their production systems • The identification of "hot spots" in the commercial supply chain of these products:. Possible technical and organizational improvements in the chain, which could lead to higher profits for farmers and increasing the sustainability of production. • Construction and implementation of a business plan and an integrated design innovation to achieve the technical and organizational changes required to improve production and marketing as well as increase the capacity for innovation and entrepreneurship of farmers and their organization. • Jardim Productivo: http://www.actaf.co.cu/revistas/revista_au_1-18/AU23/RAU23_8_El%20Jard%C3%ADn%20Productivo%20Una%20experiencia%20en%20la%20ciudad%20de%20Belo%20Horizonte,%20Brasil.pdf • Vila Pinho: neighborhood developed in 1987, said to have been a donation from a rich man who gave the land to those who worked it • Grupo Macaubas/CEVAE Capitão Eduardo – http://bhpraticandoagriculturaurbana.blogspot.com/

IPES: Urban Agriculture program http://www.ipes.org/area/agricultura-urbana

Network for the Interchange of Alternative Technologies (REDE) http://www.redemg.org.br/ http://www.redemg.org.br/?iid=19 The Alternative Technology Exchange Network (NET) is a civil society organization, nonprofit, established in 1986, whose mission is to contribute to building a sustainable society and to improve the field of community quality of life and the city, through the strengthening of agro-ecology and urban agriculture. NET works to promote and qualification of agroecological production experiences and popular organization, by monitoring families and groups and the implementation of training and capacity building activities that strengthen the experiences and political actions of leaders and grassroots organizations. From its accumulation with successful experiences and lessons learned, NET interacts with other organizations in joints, forums and networks, in municipal, state and national levels, to join forces and build proposals and policies that contribute to positive changes in social reality and environmental.

Deputy Municipal Secretariat of Nutritional Food Security (SMASAN)- part of PBH (Prefeitura BH/Mayor’s Office/Town Hall) http://portalpbh.pbh.gov.br/pbh/ecp/files.do?evento=download&urlArqPlc=sistematizacao_smasan.pdf(file:///C:/Users/rabisla/Downloads/sistematizacao_smasan.pdf) - DETAIL RICH DOC; contains contact info of folks from leadership team, page 25- list of participants and supporting orgs http://bhpraticandoagriculturaurbana.blogspot.com.br/

Metropolitan Urban Agriculture Organization (AMAU) http://amau.org.br/amau-2/amau/ Formed in 2004 as a permanent space for meetings, exchanges and strengthening of groups and organizations of civil society in the Metropolitan Belo Horizonte region, the Metropolitan Coordination of Urban Agriculture (Amau) is composed of farmers, farmers, civil society organizations such as community associations, NGOs, social pastoral, feminist movement, the struggle for land and housing; collective permaculture and healthy eating; social economy enterprises and informal community groups, as well as students and people interested in the subject. It is organized in thematic commissions: • Medicinal Plants Committee; • Commission on Agricultural Biodiversity; • Production Committee, Marketing and Distribution; • Women's Commission; • Commission Permaculture. Its main objectives: • Support popular initiatives and strengthening the organization of farmers and agriculturalists the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte (RMBH); • Give visibility to existing agriculture and agroecology experiences in MRBH, showing the diversity of activities and spaces and the different functions that can have in the region; • Deepen the political debate with different social movements and organizations and sectors of the government on the rural-urban interface; the role of agriculture and agroecology in metropolitan regions in building a popular project for Brazil and the implementation of public policies necessary for its strengthening.

CAAUP-RMBH – (Centros de Apoio à Agricultura Urbana e Periurbana, part of the Região Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte / Urban and Periurban Agriculture Support Centre of the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region) (http://www.agriculturaurbana.org.br/textos/Produto_04_FAO-MDS_consolidado.pdf) National site: http://www.agriculturaurbana.org.br/

Potential Let Onça Drink Clean Water / Deixem o Onça Beber Água Limpa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAuXQ-UT_D4 ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDS4JC9ktQw http://nordestebh.blogspot.com/2013/06/5-deixem-o-onca-beber-agua-limpa-nossa.html

Extra stuff (BH): Very interesting urban planning site: http://www.rmbh.org.br/en Older review of BH water system: http://www.solutionsforwater.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/BH-Risks-v221006.pdf National Sustainable Dev site: http://www.agricultura.gov.br/desenvolvimento-sustentavel