Brasil

In Brazil, Rooted in Trust is working to address the impacts of pandemic related information with IEB, PSA and Iepé in the States of Pará, Amapá and Roraima.

Amapá, Pará e Roraima na região Norte do Brasil são a região selecionada para o RiT 2.0 devido às baixas taxas de vacinação. Para perspectiva, em março de 2022 o estado de São Paulo tinha 86.58% de sua população vacinada, índice muito superior quando comparado a Roraima, que possui 57,6%, Amapá com 57.43% e Pará, 71%. (Fonte: Mapa da vacinação contra COVID-19 no Brasil, G1).

Indigenous, Quilombola (Afro-Brazilians who reside in quilombos) and riverside communities are some of the most vulnerable in the country in rural areas of northern and northeastern Brazil. These populations have poor access to both information and health services and have faced great danger during the pandemic. Black youth in Brazil are four times as likely to die from COVID-19 than their white counterparts.

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O Instituto Internacional de Educação do Brasil (IEB) é uma associação brasileira sem fins lucrativos fundada em 1998 com a missão de fortalecer os atores sociais e seus papéis na construção de uma sociedade mais justa e sustentável. O IEB é amplamente reconhecido em nível nacional por sua dedicação a treinamentos e fortalecimento de organizações em diversos aspectos e temas relacionados ao meio ambiente, desenvolvimento e sustentabilidade.

Iepé significa Instituto de Pesquisa e Formação Indígena, a non-profit organization that operates with different approaches, given the diversity of indigenous peoples, history, and surrounding regional context. Its main lines of action concern the promotion of territorial management, training and strengthening of indigenous organizations, cultural appreciation, and indigenous ways of life. Iepé has 4 offices (São Paulo, Macapá, Oiapoque and Santarém) and a multidisciplinary team that works closely with these communities, their representatives, and indigenous organizations, with a perspective that values their cultures and languages, as well as good practices and traditional knowledge.

O Saúde e Alegria Project (PSA) is a non-profit civil institution that has been active since 1987 in communities in the Brazilian Amazon, with the objective of promoting and supporting participative processes of integrated and sustainable community development that contribute demonstratively to the improvement of public policies, the quality of life, and the exercise of citizenship and human rights of the populations it serves.

RiT Brazil is developed a stakeholder engagement network, with the participation of   local and international NGOs, international organizations and civil society leaders since the beginning of February 2022. In the same month, a media and communication local group network was created, with media agencies and journalists from the Northen region of Brazil.

Reuniões bilaterais são realizadas continuamente para ampliar o envolvimento das partes interessadas e a rede de mídia do projeto. Existem dois grupos de WhatsApp para interagir com boletins e instantâneos da Internews com a rede de stakeholders e a rede de mídia local.

If you’re interested in learning more about the WhatsApp group, please get in touch with Isadora Starling, Project Manager ([email protected]).