Seminar in Recife, 19 August 2015

Democratization of the politics of basic sanitation services through socio-technical innovations. Lessons to tackle the challenges

DESAFIO - First Post-Project Meeting / Primera Reunión Pos-Proyecto, Recife, 19 August 2015

Programme

09:00-10:00 Opening Session

Luciano Roberto Rosas de Siqueira, Vice-Mayor of Recife

Edrise Fragoso, Secretary of Sanitation, Municipality of Recife

Suzana Maria Gico Lima Montenegro, Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE)

Paulo Rubem Santiago Ferreira, President, Joaquim Nabuco Foundation

Jaime José, Urbanitarios Workers’ Union

Adelmo Araújo, Federation of Entities for Social and Educational Assistance (FASE)

José Esteban Castro, Newcastle University, DESAFIO’s Coordinator    

 

Watch here the full video record of the Opening Session

 

Excerpts from the Opening Session:

This seminar helps to make history in Brazil, the history of popular struggles in Brazil, because it is related to the major challenges facing the [democratization] of Brazilian society right now.

Luciano Roberto Rosas de Siqueira, Vice Mayor of Recife          

 

The issues [to sort out in Brazil] require solutions that can be applied locally, however these issues require a project of development for the country, a project for a policy of urban development, the building of sustainable cities […]. You can count on the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, with our researchers, our analysts, our assistants, to discuss this and move forward in consolidating good practices [as the experiences to be discussed in today’s seminar]. What we demand and insist on is a national funding policy [for essential public services], a policy with targets, a policy of democratic social control, that counteracts [the current politics of privatization of water and sanitation services], as this is not the country that we want. Congratulations to the organizers, you can count on the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation in this strategy.

Paulo Rubem Santiago Ferreira, President, Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, Recife            

 

This seminar is very timely. I participated in DESAFIO’s First International Conference at the Federal University of Pernambuco […]. We are here with other directors of the Urbanitários Worker’s Union to participate in this seminar […], which comes a very good moment. Brazil is undergoing effervescent times and we have to engage with this effervescence to clearly identify what is wrong with this country. Congratulations to the organizers and to all those who came to participate in this seminar.

Jaime José, Urbanitários Worker’s Union, Recife            

 

FASE joined this project from the start because we understood the importance of the contributions that such a project could have in strengthening the struggle for water and sanitation services and to enhance democratic social control […]. We hope that the results of the project help us to move forward in the process of mobilization and democratic social control to make water and sanitation policy more systematic, effective, less dependent on the vagaries of who is in government.

Adelmo Araújo, Federation of Organizations for Social and Educational Assistance (FASE), Member of DESAFIO’s Local Case Study Advisory Committee, Recife            

 

We can say that DESAFIO was not a project about water and sanitation, because this specific topic is like a window to observe something more interesting to us, which is the process of democratization of society. Water and sanitation, or basic sanitation services, are just one among many other topics related to the democratization of society. We are not talking here just about democratizing electoral politics, but about the material, concrete, real democratization of society. In fact, in the seminar we will talk about water and sanitation, however we do this because our interest is focused on how to democratize the politics of public services, including the politics of basic sanitation.

José Esteban Castro, Newcastle University, DESAFIO’s Co-ordinator

DESAFIO - First Post-Project Meeting / Primera Reunión Pos-Proyecto, Recife, 19 August 2015

 

10:00-13:00 Round Table 1 – Obstacles and facilitators of the democratization process of the politics and management of basic sanitation

André Monteiro, Aggeu Magalhaes Centre, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz)

Ana Lúcia Britto, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Hermelinda Rocha, Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and Pernambuco’s Water and Climate Agency (APAC)

Otaciana Ribeiro Alves, Ceara’s Water and Sanitation Company (CAGECE)

Colin Brown, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)

Evanildo Barbosa, Federation of Entities for Social and Educational Assistance (FASE) 

 

Watch here the full video record of Round Table 1

 

Presentations from Round Table 1 in pdf:

Hermelinda Rocha

Otaciana Alves

Colin Brown

 

DESAFIO - First Post-Project Meeting / Primera Reunión Pos-Proyecto, Recife, 19 August 2015

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-17:00 Round Table 2 – The challenges facing the democratization of the politics and management of basic sanitation in the Brazilian northeast

Paulo Rubem Santiago Ferreira, President, Joaquim Nabuco Foundation

Antonio Miranda Neto, Former Secretary of Sanitation, Municipality of Recife, and Member of the United Nations Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation (UNSGAB)

José Carlos Melo, Former Vice-Mayor of Recife

Cidoval Morais de Sousa, State University of Paraiba (UEPB)

João José da Silva, Pernambuco’s Forum for Urban Reform (FERU)

 

Watch here the full video record of Round Table 2

 

 

Presentations from Round Table 2 in pdf:
João José da Silva

 

DESAFIO - First Post-Project Meeting / Primera Reunión Pos-Proyecto, Recife, 19 August 2015

17:00 Closure and distribution of printed copies of the book The Right to Water as Public Policy in Latin America: a Theoretical and Empirical Exploration, José Esteban Castro, Léo Heller and Maria da Piedade Moraes (Eds.), Brasilia: IPEA and WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network, 2015.

José Esteban Castro, Newcastle University  

 

 

 

DESAFIO - First Post-Project Meeting / Primera Reunión Pos-Proyecto, Recife, 19 August 2015

 

Participating Institutions:

Municipality of Recife – Office of the Vice Mayor
Secretariat of Sanitation of Recife
CAGECE – Water and Sanitation Company of the State of Ceará
COMPESA – Water and Sanitation Company of the State of Pernambuco
PRORURAL – Support Programme for Small Rural Producers (ProRural)
SECID – Secretariat of the Cities, Government of the State of Pernambuco
Forum of PREZEIS – Regularization Plan for Zones of Special Social Interest
FASE – Federation of Entities for Social and Educational Assistance
UFMG –Federal University of Minas Gerais
UFRJ – Federal University of Río de Janeiro
UEPB – State University of Paraiba
UFPE – Federal University of Pernambuco
FUNDAJ – Joaquim Nabuco Foundation
SUDENE – Superintendence of Development in the Northeast
APEVISA – Pernambuco’s Agency of Sanitary Vigilance
ABES/PE – Brazilian Association of Sanitary Engineering – Pernambuco
APAC – Pernambuco’s Agency of Waters and Climate
FIOCRUZ – Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
TCU – Federal Court of Auditors
TCE – Court of Auditors of the State of Pernambuco
MPPE – Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Pernambuco
TECNOSENG – Engineering Consultants
FALCONSULT Engenharia – Engineering Consultants
Community Group of Coque
City Council of Abreu e Lima
MNLM – National Movement of Struggle for Housing
Mustardinha Community Association
CERPOMA – Centre for Popular Rehabilitation of Mustardinha
APPMA – Association for the Protection and Preservation of the Environment
COMUL Mustardinha – Commission for the Urbanization and Legalization of Land Tenancy in Mustardinha
ZEIS – Zone of Special Social Interest of Sitio de Berardo
FIJ – Federation of Entities of Ibura and Jordão
Recreational Union of Virgin Widows of Mustardinha
MLPC/PE – Pernambuco’s Movement of Popular Struggle and Community
ONG – Wonder Woman Group
SISMAL – Municipal Workers’ Union of Abreu e Lima
SINDURB- Urban Workers’ Union of Pernambuco


 

Jointly organized by the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Newcastle University, United Kingdom, the WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network, and the Federation of Entities for Social and Educational Assistance (FASE), Pernambuco, Brazil.

Auditorium of the Trade Union of Federal Public Workers of Health and Social Security (SINDSPREV), Pernambuco office, Recife, Brazil 19 August 2015.