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applied in the management of solid residues of 13
municipal districts that integrate the Basin of
Guanabara Bay organized as a consortium (CONIMA
- BOX on garbage and Conima). In 2001, another 114
projects of integrated management of urban solid
residues in the Brazilian municipal districts were
given assistance, totalling R$32,000,000 of
investments in the area.
The eradication of dumps is a serious sanitary,
environmental and social problem. Projects towards this
objective are outstandingly demonstrated in demands sent
to the Federal Government, through the Ministry of the
Environment. This year, they amounted to R$514,000,000 in
investments, including requests sent to The National Fund
of the Environment (Fundo Nacional do Meio Ambiente –
FNMA).
4.10.2. Urban Environment Management
estimate the necessary amount of resources to eliminate
the deficit in garbage collection, recovery of degraded areas
and installation of sanitary embankments in the entire
national territory.
In the wider scope of sanitation, the federal government
has been promoting financing programmemes directed to
solving problems of the urban environment agenda.
c) Pro-sanitation
This is a programmeme linked to the Special
Secretariat of Urban Development of the Presidency
(Secretaria Especial de Desenvolvimento Urbano da
Presidência da República – SEDU/PR) searching to
promote improvement in the conditions of health
and quality of life of the population. It is composed
of sanitary actions, seeking to increase the coverage
of services of water supply, sanitation drainage,
urban drainage and management of solid residues,
including institutional development actions.
a) Urban Environment Management Project
This project is being executed with technical cooperation
from the German Government, through
the GTZ Agency. This agency operates in the field of
training and education of human resources for the
elaboration of projects and the integrated
management of solid residues, environment
sanitation, use of the soil and urban public transport.
In the first phase of the project (2000-2003) GTZ
contributed with about five million marks
(approximately 3.5 million dollars).
b) Urban Environmental Management Project in the
Amazon
This project is being executed with the technical and
financial support of the Dutch Government (Holland)
and is directed to the development of actions, with
local and regional focus, directed to the improvement
of the quality of life of the population, sustainable
development and reduction of negative impacts on
the environment. Pilot projects of processes for the
management of residues are being developed in nine
Amazonian municipal districts, where processes and
adequate forms are being tested to face the serious
environmental and public health problems resulting
from the produced garbage.
Studies have been accomplished involving several
organisations (MMA/SQA/GAU, GTZ, FNMA, CEF, FUNASA
and CETEC-MG). These studies have made an effort to
d) Prosanear
Also linked to SEDU/PR with community
participation, this programmeme seeks to promote
integrated sanitation actions in areas with urban
characteristics and occupied by low income
populations (groups of families with income of up
to three minimum wages), through appropriate
technical solutions and at low cost, implementation,
operation and maintenance of the systems.
e) Programme of Sanitary Social Action - PASS
This is a programmeme linked to SEDU/PR,
searching to implement services of environmental
sanitation. The programmeme gives emphasis to
the improvement of health and life conditions of
communities located in the main slums of the
country, preferentially in the small and medium sized
municipal districts, selected by the programmemes
Reduction of Mortality in Childhood (Programa de
Redução da Mortalidade na Infância - PRMI) and
Solidarity Community (Programa Comunidade
Solidária - PCS).
Additionally, the PASS programmeme - Touristic
Cities (Programa PASS – Cidades Turísticas) is
focused on the improvement of the touristic and
potentially touristic municipal districts that integrate
the National programme of Tourism
Municipalization (Programa Nacional de
Municipalização do Turismo - PNMT). This
programmeme is intended to reduce tourist
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