2023 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"
17th Edition
Porto Seguro – Bahia: Mixed Environmentalist Parliamentary Front of the Extreme South of Bahia
The Environmentalist Mixed Parliamentary Front of the Extreme South of Bahia is a movement that aims to establish new forms of relationship with the environment, tracing paths that aim at sustainability and integrate the most diverse spheres of society.
We unite civil society, environmental organizations, students, researchers, companies and parliamentarians from the Legislative Branch, seeking to develop ideas and implement them through effective and democratic public policies that achieve change for everyone, especially in the municipalities represented.
The Front has the participation of councilors from several municipalities, namely: Porto Seguro, Santa Cruz Cabrália, Itabela, Guaratinga, Eunápolis, Maraú, Itagimirim (7,110) and Teixeira de Freitas. The municipalities are part of the identity territory of the Extreme South of Bahia.
To provide technical support to the work, 9 Working Groups (GTs) were created on various topics: Hydrographic Basins; Environmental Responsibility and Economic Instruments; Urban Development; Environmental education; Solid waste; Animal welfare; Atlantic forest; Circular Economy and Marine and Coastal Ecosystem. Each group within its theme will collect data and develop projects that can be implemented in each of the Municipalities that are interested in a certain policy.
Its methodology is the creation of a participatory ecosystem that integrates the creation of legislative and executive projects; collective actions in the administrative and judicial scope and participatory experiences. Innovating with regard to the integration of new paradigms within the public debate, namely, well-being, socio-environmental justice and nature as a subject of rights. Having as a milestone the legislative approval of a new environmental paradigm in the municipality of Porto Seguro, which recognizes nature as a subject of rights, holder of legal personality, and determines actions by the Municipal Public Power to mitigate the climate crisis in line with development sustainable (Amendment to the Organic Law, modifying art. 103).
Through the work of the Front, it was possible to strengthen civil society and environmental organizations within the political arena, through public hearings, forums, undersigned, open meetings to address the issue; and the strengthening and expansion of the environmental agenda in a region marked by predatory tourism and urban development that directly impacts the environment.
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