A construção de parcerias para viabilizar projetos de produção de energia em comunidades quilombolas e de favelas no Brasil

Abstract

Since when the first black arrived here, a survivor of the cruel trip of the slave ships, the social, economic and racial inequalities follow the History of Brazil spreading in the areas where the african descents could survive: in the less fertile lands, in the shantytowns and in any poorest part of the country today, not by chance, the misery is accompanied by the predominance of the non European lineage. Based on this statement, the present work has as its main objective to discuss and propose, in an articulated manner, actions in partnership – with government, companies, non governmental organizations, communities, universities and fostering agencies – which are capable of enabling the construction of energy production projects that incite the sustainable development in low income communities, in its majority, formed by afro descents, in a way to contribute with the reduction of the misery and exclusion areas, where, today, live the great-great-great-children of the ones who arrived here in those ships. The choice of the rural community of the remainders of the Kalunga Quilombos, and the urban community of Cidade de Deus (City of God), in Rio de Janeiro, as the two target populations for the projects proposed in this work, is due to the result of a previous study, conducted by the Secretaria Especial de Políticas de Promoção da Igualdade Racial - SEPPIR (Special Secretariat of Policies for the Racial Equality), which aims the identification of representatives communities, one rural and one urban, of the actual socioeconomic profile of populations in the country with a majority of afro descents and that have a minimum of structural conditions to allow them to effectively participate in the management of projects for their development. This way, both communities fit all the requirements of the study, by having well organized and representative residents’ associations, that already have talks with non governmental organizations (NGOs) and, also, with civil society organizations considered by the government as of public interest (OSCIPs – per its Portuguese acronym), which gives them some legal prerogatives and comparative advantages to claim institutional and financial support to the governmental agencies.