Ricardo Moretti

Urbanização de favelas na Região do ABC no âmbito do Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento-Urbanização de Assentamentos Precários

This paper analyzes interventions in slums located in the ABC Region (State of Sao Paulo, Brazil) that have been financed in the context of Programa de Aceleracao do Crescimento – Urbanizacao de Assentamentos Precarios (PAC-UAP). Through this program, financial resources aimed at the upgrading of 49 precarious settlements (slums) are allocated to this region. The research shows evidence of low efficiency in the implementation of projects. Our characterization of the settlements and interventions provides a general panorama of the program’s implementation and its bottlenecks. It is concluded that, to understand the lack of efficiency in slum upgrading, it is important to understand the characteristics of these territories, the nature of interventions, the regulation and operationalization of the program, and the institutional limitations of municipal governments.

Trajectories of public engagement: outreach projects in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Numerous examples of co-operation between universities, social movements and associations for the right to housing emerged in the Sao Paulo urban region in the 80s and 90s, which then became firmly established as part of the increasingly larger and more organised Extensao Universitaria programmes. This paper gives a survey of the state of progress achieved by Extensao’s activities in Brazil starting with a reconstruction of some of these initiatives and the motives behind them. The paper therefore discusses the process of institutional consolidation which these initiatives are undergoing today and takes as an example the Universidade Federale do Abc’s ‘public commitment’ programme and in particular the Youth and Adult Education Project developed by Ufabc in 2012.