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Concept Note
Background
The city of Rio de Janeiro has been going through a significant process of revitalization and
transformation. Policies for the sustainable development of the city, targeting socio-economic
inclusion and integration have benefited from a unique combination of factors, including public
safety policies to reduce the incidence of violent crime, increased public and private investment,
improved political alignment between Municipal, State and Federal governments, global
attention from Rio de Janeiro´s role in mega events such as the 2012 Rio+20 Conference, the
2014 World Cup and the upcoming 2016 Olympics, as well as Rio de Janeiro´s role in
innovative international urban development networks such as the Rockefeller 100 Resilient
Cities, the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and the Sustainable Development Solutions
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Network .
Significant achievements have been made to revitalize city infrastructure, improve urban
mobility, resilience and climate change and disaster responsiveness as well as increasing
participation, integration and service delivery in the city´s favelas and low income communities.
However, great challenges remain to achieve a more sustainable, inclusive and integrated city.
Considering both the challenges and the current opportunity, Rio´s Pact has been created as a
network to promote, monitor and expand sustainable development activities in the city.
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More information on these initiatives is available at:
http://www.100resilientcities.org/
www.c40.org
www.unsdsn.org
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Rio’s Pact – For an Integrated City
Launched at the end of 2014, Rio´s Pact brings together representatives of the public, private,
not-for-profit and non-government sectors, as well as academia, civil society and international
organization in order to promote and monitor the sustainable development of the city of Rio de
Janeiro.
Different institutions will contribute in different ways, from proposing projects or
initiatives to providing services, information or resources, both financial and non-financial. With
an integrated and coordinated plan of action, backed by rigorous monitoring and evaluation, the
goal is to create a self-regulating and self-financing network that provides ongoing benefits to all
participants.
A set of commitments among
the public, private, not-forprofit/non-government sectors,
academia, civil society, and
international organizations to
promote and monitor
sustainable development in the
city of Rio de Janeiro.
Linking the different sectors of the city
The goal of Rio´s Pact is to generate a large network - shared, self-regulated, self-financed and
non-partisan – that will be capable of linking different sectors and stakeholders across the city in
order to improve the population's quality of life. Through this interactive network, Rio´s Pact
aims to generate information and incubate new projects for the city and metropolitan area.
Rio´s Pact will bring together five key sectors of Rio de Janeiro´s society, as well as its
international partners. These sectors are:
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Public Sector. Responsible for planning, coordination, implementation and monitoring of
public policy and investment, and consisting of the representatives of the Executive Government
(at Federal, State and Municipal level), Legislature and Judiciary;
2.
Private Sector. Offering resources, technical experience, knowledge transfer and project
concepts, and consisting of companies, banks and private associations, among others;
3.
Population. Providing ideas and feedback through participatory planning, monitoring
and evaluation, as well as supporting initiatives through community engagement, philanthropy
and volunteering, and consisting of citizens, social investors (individuals and non-governmental)
and local associations;
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Not-For-Profit Sector. Offering practical experience in developing, implementing and
monitoring projects, and consisting of non-for-profit and non-government organizations; and
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Academia. Offering expertise in developing theories and methodologies, monitoring and
evaluating impact, and training and capacity building, and consisting of public and private
universities (national and international), and institutes of research.
In addition to the five sectors;
International Organizations. Offering expertise, financing, and opportunities for international
cooperation and comparative studies, and can include international companies, foreign banks,
international development agencies, not-for-profit and non-government organizations as well as
external government partners.
Key Areas of Activity – Strategic themes and functional activities
Rio´s Pact aims to drive progress in urban development, particularly for those parts of the city
which experience the greatest challenges in access, opportunities and social well-being.
Participants from each of the five sectors (plus international partners) will align their activities
with the three key thematic areas of Urban Sites, Opportunities and Security. There are also
three defined areas of functional activities to support the operation of Rio´s Pact; Resource
Mobilization, Technical Studies, and Projects.
Thematic Areas:
The three thematic areas for Rio´s Pact are:
1. Urban Sites. This thematic area will promote proposals for a more efficient and equitable
use of city spaces, addressing housing conditions, the broader socioeconomic environment
and improving the flow of information and resources to those living in slums or informal
settlements. This thematic area will also encourage proposals for improvements in mobility
and access, to improve the timeliness and quality of public services. Currently, there are
two main projects:
1.1 Integrated Development Plan for the Complexo da Maré favela and surrounding area.
This project will develop an urban improvement program in Complexo da Maré and its
surrounds, focusing on increasing social housing investment. This project includes
representatives of local and external academic, not-for-profit and non-government
organizations. There are plans to install Pacifying Police Units in the region later this
year and an analysis of appropriate public interventions for the area is currently
underway.
1.2 Local Plan for Social Housing in the Porto Maravilha redevelopment.
This project will develop an affordable housing plan for the area covered by Porto
Maravilha, the largest public-private partnership in Brazil. This includes the suburbs of
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Centro, Saúde, Santo Cristo, and Gamboa, as well as the region of Morro da
Providencia).
2. Opportunities.
This
thematic
area
will
focus
on
opportunities
to
develop
entrepreneurship and human and social capital by promoting culture, sports and leisure
as mechanisms of social integration and inclusion. There are currently three committees
working in this thematic area: Culture, Sport, and Entrepreneurship in Favelas.
The Entrepreneurship Committee, (led by the Economic Development Board of IPP),
conducts technical assistance projects for local organizations in pacified areas. The
Sports Committee (led by Municipal Secretary of Sports and Leisure) is defining the
indicators to guide the monitoring of its chosen projects. The Culture Committee (led by
private sector partners, ‘Circo Crescer and Viver’), is undertaking a stakeholder
mapping exercise to build a working group for the development of cultural activities.
3. Security. This thematic area will promote proposals for the prevention and reduction of
crime, homicide, criminal recidivism and other negative impacts of violence to improve
the safety of citizens and society. Activity in this thematic area is led by the Igarapé
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Institute , with high engagement with the Secretary of State Security (SESEG).
In addition, under the leadership of Dr Silvia Ramos of the Centre for Security and
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Citizenship Studies (CESeC) , a Favela Integration Committee will hold a series of
conferences with small local media organizations and activists to establish a platform for
information exchange between favelas and the formal city to promote better integration.
Functional Activities:
Rio´s Pact will support a model of participative planning, socialization, resource mobilization,
inter-sectoral coordination, monitoring, research and evaluation to improve the viability, impact,
knowledge transfer and scalability of individual projects.
The three areas of functional activities to support the operation of Rio´s Pact are:
1. Resource Mobilisation – includes identifying opportunities to attracting human and
financial capital for prioritized projects within each of the three thematic areas. This can
include financial investment or human capital in the form of expert technical assistance
or the ongoing involvement of volunteers. Resources will be grouped by their source:
public, private and international.
2. Studies – includes the development of diagnostics and indicators to monitor project
execution and measure project impact in each of the three thematic areas. This activity
will also include the detailed evaluations and strategic research, as well as the ongoing
monitoring required for the effective governance of Rio´s Pact.
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3. Projects – includes the consolidation and structuring of activities to ensure positive
impacts with well defined indicators in each of the three thematic areas. This activity
will also include developing criteria for project prioritization, requirements for
transparency and accountability and mechanisms to encourage further public
participation in the suggestion, design and implementation of projects as well as
evaluation of public policy.
Governance model
The Governance model for Rio´s Pact is currently being developed, in partnership with
Accenture. A value-chain analysis based on internal and external interviews identified the five
steps of awareness, diagnosis, concept design, resource mobilization, and execution and
monitoring; which can be divided as the two macro activities of participatory planning and
project feasibility as shown below.
Following this model, Rio´s Pact will undertake two primary functions: collection and distribution
of high quality data and the development of projects based on participative diagnostics. The
governance model will create a self-regulating and horizontal structure to optimize engagement
and information sharing between participants, stakeholders and beneficiaries. A detailed work
plan should be complete by June 2015. A communication strategy is also being developed,
including a social media strategy and website.
Networks and international partnerships
Rio´s Pact is anchored in the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a United
Nations-led global initiative of civil society, academic institutions, international and government
organizations and the private sector. The SDSN is leading the design of the Sustainable
Development Goals, which will replace the Millennium Development Goals after 2015. The
SDSN is also building a network of national and regional chapters to promote and share local
development solutions and initiatives. The local chapter of this global network, Brasil SDSN,
was launched in Rio de Janeiro in March 2014 with a focus on urban development challenges,
targeting the themes of the Sustainable Development Theme #9, Sustainable Cities: Inclusive,
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Resilient and Connected. The Pereira Passos Institute is one of four coordinating institutions for
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the Brasil SDSN, which is supported by the Brazilian Foundation for Sustainable Development
(FBDS) in the role of Executive Secretariat.
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The Brasil SDSN and Rio´s Pact have complementary and mutually re-enforcing approaches.
The Brasil SDSN, and through it, the global SDSN, provide international perspectives,
partnerships and opportunities, while Rio´s Pact provides a local implementation mechanism for
the SDSN international agenda of urban sustainability.
Beyond this, Rio´s Pact is also
coordinating with other existing and developing partnerships and programs in the area of
sustainability. Key examples include:
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Resilient Rio; a strategic partnership between the city (with the Rio Operations Centre as
the lead partner) and the Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities program to improve the resilience
of the city to social, economic, natural and climate-influenced change;
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Rio+Social; a multi-disciplinary program coordinated by the Pereira Passos Institute in
partnership with UN-HABITAT that promotes urban, social and economic development to
improve quality of life for residents of the pacified territories in the city; and
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the program of strategic engagement with the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro in the areas of
Tourism, Branding, Digital, Culture, Transportation, Urban Planning, Sustainability, Social
Services and Road Safety, undertaken by Bloomberg Associates.
Upcoming Activities in 2015
Definition of the governance model (by April 2015)
Identification of the operational model (until June 2015)
Definition of indicators and commencement of monitoring (from July 2015)
Preparation of Action Plans (until December 2015)
How to get involved
Rio´s Pact creates a set of commitments that guide the promotion of initiatives for the
sustainable development of the city. Citizens and organizations who wish to take part in the
Pact sign a commitment that defines how they as a partner will contribute to the different
thematic areas, for example through the provision of financial resources, human resources,
project proposals or research.
Further
information
is
available
by
email
at
[email protected]
http://www.rio.rj.gov.br/web/ipp/como-aderir
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