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Rio's City Hall starts SAFER RIO program operations
On December 3, Rio’s City Hall launched
operations of the SAFER RIO program. Teams of the Municipal Guard, State
Military Security Forces and other municipal agencies began integrated
operations in the neighborhoods of Copacabana and Leme,
South Zone of Rio.
The program aims to act in the prevention of urban disorder and small
crimes. The areas that are part of the project count on the increase of 280
men of the Municipal Guard and State Military Police to the effective
current teams, to operate 24 hours a day. These agents will be supported by
two minibuses as operating bases, ten Radio Mobile Patrol cars and 33
motorcycles, as well as safety cameras and police dogs (K-9) Unit.
The initiative foresees a greater participation of GM, allied to additional
state police officers hired by Rio City Hall through an agreement with Proeis (State Program for Integration in Security),
which will be funded with SEOP's own resources and, starting in March 2018,
with an increase in Special Public Order Fund (FEOP).
According to Mayor Marcelo Crivella, these
neighborhoods were chosen for the pilot project because they are the
gateway into the city for tourists and that the SAFER RIO program will
extend in the future throughout the city.
Rio City Hall signs agreement with russian Olympic City Group
On November 28th, Mayor Marcelo Crivella signed a
letter of intent alongside the president of the Russian Olympic City Group,
Aleksei Semenyachenko,
in which the last one proposes to develop, at no cost to the municipality,
a pre-proposal for a public-private partnership project to build a
"suspended city" on top of the railway line between Central do Brasil and Leopoldina
station, where several commercial and residential enterprises will be
installed. The construction work is estimated at R$ 8 billion, which should
be raised with the private sector.
In a ceremony held at the City Palace in the Botafogo
district, representatives of the City Hall and the Russian company, whom
the mayor had met in May during a trip to Moscow, explained that the
Olympic City Group will carry out an extensive study for the elaboration of
an occupation plan of the area and to analyze, among other topics, what
changes would be necessary in the urban planning legislation.
The construction works are due to begin in early 2019. The Mayor of Rio
highlighted that the project is part of a plan called “Rio Without Walls”,
whose idea is to transform the railway line between Méier
and Santa Cruz neighborhoods into underground transportation.
Mayor received letter from Chinese company
that intends to donate LED lamps to Rio
 On December 13th, Mayor Marcelo Crivella
received a letter of intent from the Chinese company Foshan
Ningyu, pledging to donate LED lamps with
monitoring cameras and Wi-Fi attached to it to be installed in strategical areas of the city.
The company Foshan Ningyu
also expressed its interest in participating in the bid that will be opened
for the Public Private Partnership (PPP) for a project which is aimed at
providing the replacement of the city's 450,000 light points for LED lamps.
According to the concept of smart city, the current lamp posts would be
replaced by the "smart" models. In addition to updating the
public illumination system, the measure will generate savings for the
city's coffers, with an expectation of a 57% reduction in electricity
spending, according to a study carried out by the World Bank.
The agreement is already one of the results from the trip the Mayor made to
China last month. The work is expected to be completed in three months, and
Chinese Zhu Huichong, a representative of Foshan Ningyu, also announced
that the group intends to invest R$ 200 million to install an LED lamp
factory in Rio.
Rio City Hall Program is highlighted at Bloomberg Cities
The Carioca Early Childhood Program (PIC), of the City of Rio de Janeiro,
was featured in the Bloomberg Cities publication by the Mayors Challenge, a
challenge promoted by Bloomberg Philanthropies, focusing on public sector
advances and innovations in cities around the world.
According to the article from the American news agency, Carioca Early
Childhood plays a key role in providing social assistance to children under
the age of six as it connects all sectors of municipal administration that
have policies dedicated to this portion of the population.
"The program is focused not only on child development, but also on the
family as a whole. We plan to reduce the infant mortality rate to 9.5 per
1,000 residents in the next two years," said Ana Carla Prado, government
integration manager at the City Hall Executive Office.
Rio Promotes Trade and
Economic Exchange between China and Brazil
On November 21st, Mayor Crivella received
a delegation at the City Palace in Botafogo with
about 30 Chinese businessmen and representatives of commercial and
industrial entities from Macao and Shenzhen. The meeting was attended by
the Chinese General Consul in Rio de Janeiro, Li Yang, and several
institutions and private companies from Rio de Janeiro.
The mayor stressed the importance of promoting economic, commercial,
technological and cultural relations between the two countries and
reaffirmed the goal of uniting Rio with the initiative of Chinese President
Xi Jinping to resume the Silk Road.
The leader of the group of Chinese businessmen, from the Institute of
Promotion of Trade and Investment of Macau, Gloria Batalha
Ung, explained what motivated the trip to Rio.
- We made this trip with the aim of getting to know more about the
investment environment in Brazil and to exchange with public bodies and
companies in order to know and explore the opportunities for cooperation -
said Ung.
The meeting was organized by the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion
Institute (IPIM) and the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between
China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macao), in partnership with the
International Relations Department of Rio City Hall.
Rio Municipal Secretary
of Culture participates in the 42nd. Cultural Mercosul
meeting
The Municipal Secretary
of Culture, Nilcemar Nogueira,
welcomed the participants of the 42nd. meeting of
the Mercosur Cultural - the meeting of Mercosul ministers. This was the last of 16 thematic
meetings that took place during the second half of 2017.
On behalf of Mayor Marcelo Crivella, the
Secretary received the Ministers of Culture of Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru,
Argentina and Uruguay. Nilcemar highlighted the
secretariat's vision for the cultural policies implemented in the year 2017
in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
"A concern of our management is to think of culture not only as
entertainment, but as a vector of human development. We see culture as a
possibility to improve the living conditions of the holders of knowledge
and symbolic goods. May we learn more about the forms of cultural
expression in all Mercosul countries that
resemble us in the brave form as they stand. "
During the meeting, the results of the thematic meetings (Heritage, Arts,
Diversity and Creative Economy) were presented. A platform of artistic
residencies was also launched in Mercosul, a
magazine on cultural diversity and a handbook of accessible audiovisual
productions.
Vice
Mayor receives Chinese delegation to discuss transport
Vice Mayor and
Municipal Transport Secretary Fernando Mac Dowell received Chinese
investors from Shandong Province on December 1st, interested in knowing the
achievements and projects of the transportation area, as well as seeking
possible partnerships between Rio and province.
Mac Dowell presented the municipal transportation system, studies for
improvements, talked about the importance of the development of the Port
and its positive consequences for the city and the expansion of the subway.
Rio joins
the Urban20 initiative
The Chief of Government of Buenos Aires, Mr. Horacio
Rodríguez Larreta, and
the Mayor of Paris and Chair of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group,
Ms. Anne Hidalgo, launched the Urban 20 (U20) initiative on December 12th,
during the One Planet Summit, in Paris. U20 will bring together the Mayors
of the world's leading cities in Buenos Aires to enrich the agenda of the
G20 debates from an urban perspective.
More than 30 cities in the G20 member countries were invited to join the
U20 as part of the "Global Cities" group. The mayors of the
world's major cities will meet in Buenos Aires in October 2018 to discuss
current urban problems. The cities of Paris, Chicago, Los Angeles, Sao
Paulo, Sydney, Milan, Madrid, Tokyo, Seoul, Jakarta and Rio de Janeiro,
among others, have already confirmed their participation. In addition,
other major urban centers around the world were invited to participate as
observers.
Municipal Guard of Rio participates in
security fair in the USA
 The results of the meeting promoted by the IACP (International
Association of Chiefs of Police) in the United States in October this year
were announced on December 12th at the seventh meeting of the Municipal Integrated
Management Office at the Rio Operations Center (COR).
The mayor of Rio, who chaired the meeting, highlighted the importance of
the presence of the Municipal Guard in the event to inspect cameras,
non-lethal equipment, surveillance and modern techniques to bring to Rio.
"The great news that has been given there are the cameras on the
streets. This is how we can have a police force multiplied with the use of
technology, instead of people, which lowers the costs. Many light posts
have cameras and rely on centers like the one here (COR), which oversees
the vity and, thus, avoids crimes"he
explained.
Representatives of Rio's Public Security and Municipal Guard participated
in the conference, which provided an exchange of experiences on equipment,
technology and public security policies. The city council of Rio intends to
bring the meeting, which has been held in the United States for a century,
to the city.
Rio City
Hall promotes HIV prevention action
The Special
Coordination of Sexual Diversity (CEDS RIO), in partnership with the AIDS
Healthcare Foundation (AHF), a non-profit social organization represented
in Brazil by the Impulse Group, and the Pela Vidda group, promoted several activities to alert World
Day Against HIV / AIDS, on December 1st.
Quick tests were available for HIV virus detection - an oral test performed
with saliva fluids at Marechal Floriano Square in Cinelândia
neighborhood, downtown Rio.
NGO volunteers and CEDS Rio employees distributed kits containing
information material on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections
(STIs), condoms (male and female), and a lubricating gel.
CEDS Rio, together with the Municipal Health Department (SMS), developed
prevention activities at public events, prostitution points, and the street
population throughout the year. At Carnival, for example, more than 1.2
million condoms and 236 thousand units of lubricating gel were distributed.
Vice
Mayor Fernando Mac Dowell welcomes representatives of the European
Parliament
Photo: MST
The Vice Mayor and
Municipal Secretary of Transport, Fernando Mac Dowell, welcomed
representatives of the European Parliament at the City Hall on November
1st. Members of delegations from countries such as Portugal, France and
Italy attended the meeting.
The European Parliament delegation came to Brazil due to the negotiations
on the cooperation agreement between the European Union and Mercosur. The visit to Rio aimed at identifying
interests and potential areas for cooperation with the municipality, as
well as discussing the advantages that an agreement between the two blocks
can generate to Rio.
During the meeting, Mac Dowell also presented mobility plans for the city
of Rio de Janeiro, such as the intelligent traffic light system, in
addition to the project to improve the Port of Rio de Janeiro.
Workshop
marks the second phase of the Rio-Paris cooperation agreement
Workshop on the theme
"Revitalization of public spaces” marked the second phase of the Rio-Paris
cooperation agreement, on 14th of December, in Rio. The president of the
Rio Heritage Patrimony Institute (IRPH), Augusto Ivan de Freitas, opened the event with a brief introduction on
French cooperation in urbanism in Rio followed by the word of the Deputy
Consul General of France in Rio, Jean-François Laborie.
In the first half of the workshop, the Atelier Parisien
d'Urbanisme (APUR) presented the methodology for
the revitalization of the seven squares selected as the focus of the
cooperation agreement, and in the second half, the Under-Secretariat of
Urbanism presented the information compiled for the Roberto Campos square
(in Estácio neighborhood), then presented the
area of the Projected Streets A and B (Avenue Presidente
Vargas and SAARA) and finally the Rio World Heritage Institute presented
Largo do Machado.
The Rio-Paris cooperation agreement signed in 2016 is valid until 2018 with
a total budget of 85 thousand euros for technical
cooperation. Now the Parisians will make a report, with the summary of what
was discussed, that will be delivered to Rio City Hall in January 2018.
Mayor
introduces investment projects in Rio during Dubai-Brazil Seminar
On December 14th
the Mayor of Rio, Marcelo Crivella, participated
in the opening of the Dubai-Brazil Opportunities Seminar, Gateway to
Brazil, promoted by the International Relations Department of Rio's City
Hall, which brought together businessmen from various sectors, such as
construction, agriculture and tourism, at the Museum of Art of Rio (MAR),
in Praça Mauá.
The seminar aimed at introducing the Dubai Development and Investment
Agency to Brazilian stakeholders to discuss investment opportunities in
both countries and cities, as well as bringing programs, initiatives and
companies closer together. The event occurred in response to the Mayor's
trip to Dubai in October this year. In his speech, the Mayor highlighted
Rio's efforts to reinvent the city and improve the quality of life of Rio
citizens.
In this opportunity, Mayor Crivella presented projects
that are open for investment in the city of Rio, such as the "City
Without Walls", which aims to reduce inequalities by creating parks
and green areas where there are currently train stations; Porto 21 -
creative district ", in the revitalized area of the Port of Rio, with
an area of 1.7 million square meters, focused on the development of
activities in the innovation and creative industry sector, among others.
The CEO of Dubai Development and Investment Agency (FDI), Fahad Al Gergawi, took the
opportunity to showcase the attractions that Dubai offers to strengthen the
bilateral relationship. The audience counted with the Minister of Industry,
Foreign Trade and Service, Marcos Pereira; FINEP Innovation Director Victor
Odorcyk, Executive Director of Investment Support
and Promotion (Dubai FDI), Khalid Alboom; and the
President of Rhythm UAE, Jamal Said.
UN
and Rio sign cooperation agreement under the " Line Up, Live Up"
Program
On December 1st, the
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) and the Undersecretariat of Sports and Recreation of the city
of Rio de Janeiro signed a memorandum of understanding during the event in
Rio de Janeiro to formalize cooperation in the field of "Line Up, Live
Up" program, a global initiative of the UN office that uses sports as
a means to prevent violence and crime among young people.
The signing marked the closing of an exchange of experiences held this week
in Rio with the participation of Physical Education professors, sports
managers and specialists from countries such as South Africa, Bangladesh,
Belgium, Colombia, India, Kyrgyzstan, Palestine, Peru, The Dominican
Republic and Uganda. Workshops and visits to Olympic Villages and sports
projects were organized in Rio.
During the event, SUBEL's undersecretary stressed the importance of the
agreement that serves vulnerable youth. "Drug trafficking is extremely
harmful to children and adolescents. In Rio de Janeiro, we already have
information that trafficking is recruiting young people under the age of
ten", he said.
Mayor of
Rio signs letter of intent in Shanghai
Mayor Marcelo Crivella
met with Mayor Ying Yong in Shanghai on November 11th and signed a letter
of intent on cooperation and exchange between the two cities, aimed at
deepening the relevancies in the areas of finance, innovation, culture,
tourism, among others.
Knowing that China is Brazil's largest trading partner and Shanghai is
China's economic center, the Mayor emphasized the
importance of this partnership for the development of the city of Rio.
"Rio de Janeiro responded positively to the Chinese 'One Belt One
Road' Initiative and plans to accelerate urban infrastructure and port
construction. Companies in Shanghai are welcome to participate in the
cooperation. With the signing of the letter of intent for cooperation and
exchange between Rio de Janeiro and Shanghai, I believe that more
cooperation will be achieved in the areas of economy and commerce, urban
construction and culture“, he declared.
Mayor Yong said Shanghai will encourage local companies to participate in
the construction of Rio with the goal of accelerating a series of measures
such as urban infrastructure.
UN
conducts safety training for employees and partners in Rio
The United Nations
Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) in Brazil held a training course
in Rio de Janeiro from December 5th to 7th for 50 UN officials,
representatives of partner NGOs and other state entities.
The objective of the program “Safe and Secure Approaches in Field
Environments (SSAFE)” is to ensure the safety of UN System personnel and
enable them to cope with hazardous situations in their activities.
In its tenth edition, the training was attended by representatives of UN
agencies, funds and programs, as well as partners and related entities,
such as the Military Police, Fire Brigade, Brazilian Red Cross, military of
the Joint Peace Operations Center of the Brazil (CCOPAB), as well as
companies and security managers.
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4th Edition of Rio Travel Market
On November 16th, Rio hosted the 4th edition of the Rio Travel Market
event, where several booths were set up to promote tourism in the city.
Counting with the presence of Rio Convention & Visitors Bureau director
Michael Nagy, the current superintendent of BHG Hotels, Paulo Michel and
Mauricio Werner da Riotur.
The meeting addressed Rio's collective desire for growth and rise in global
turism markets through the calendar of events and
their ramifications. The representatives showcased diverse and interesting
services for the tourist as well as for the carioca.
Hundredth anniversary
of Finland is celebrated in the Christ the Redeemer
Dozens of historic monuments around the world were illuminated in
celebration of Finland's 100th Independence Day. One of the most impressive
shows was in Rio de Janeiro, where the statue of Christ the Redeemer was
lighted in blue and white to resemble the Finnish national flag.
IOC and UN Women
renew partnership to empower women and girls through sport
The IOC and UN Women signed, on November 17th, the second Memorandum
of Understanding for the next five years of the program aimed at empowering
girls and young women through sport, the project was implemented in poor
areas of Rio as a legacy project Olympic Games of the Rio 2016 Games and
will continue under this partnership framework in Brazil and potentially in
additional countries.
1st International Expomídia in Rio
The National Syndicate of Radio communications Companies - SINDER / SP and
the Rio de Janeiro State Press Association - AIERJ, promoted the 1st Expomídia Internacional, on
December 12th, at the SulAmérica Convention
Center, in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
The event aimed to create an agenda with the participation of journalists
and communicators. As opinion makers, they play a very important role in
the organized international civil society. In this occasion they discussed
innovations, trends, legislations and a series of topics linked to the
segment and of great importance at the present time.
There where 10 countries, 60 speakers and 90
stands with the exhibition of products and services. With professionals and
national and international companies (Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay,
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, New Zealand, Mexico, China, USA, Italy
and Russia), the broadcast was live on TV AIERJ and Radio AIERJ. The the event featured interpreters of Chinese, English,
Spanish, Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) and information in Braille.
1st edition of PcD City Fair arrives in Rio
The Superintendent of the Rights of the Person with Disabilities, Mauro Alves (Superintendence attached to the Municipal
Secretariat for Citizenship and Human Rights), participated in the opening
of the PCD Rio de Janeiro Fair in 2017, on December 1st, in Arena Carioca, Parque Olímpico / Barra, an event that ended on December 3rd, the date on
which the International Day of People with Disabilities was celebrated.
According to Mauro Alves, "the
participation was highly positive considering that the fair was about
inclusion, assistive technologies, accessibility and mobility, themes and
challenges that we have to face in guaranteeing the rights of people with
disabilities," explained the superintendent.
Visits received by the
International Relations Department
- November 01, visit of the European Parliament delegation.
- November 10, visit of the delegation of Cologne, Germany.
- November 21, visit of the IPIM delegation.
- December 11, visit of the delegation of the Shanghai Committee of the
CPPCC.
- December 14, visit of the delegation from Dubai, UAE.
- December 15, visit of the delegation of Shenyang, China
Agenda
• January 17 to 21: 38th International Tourism Fair FITUR 2018,
Madrid, Spain.
• January 24-25: INDIASOFT 2018, Bangalore, India.
• January 11-13: Urban ARC - IIHS Annual Research Conference, Bengaluru, India.
• January 24-26: US Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting, Washington DC,
USA.
• January 26-27: Mayors Innovation Project, Washington DC, USA.
• January 29-30: XII Meeting of Directors of International Relations,
Coordinators of the UCCI, Madrid, Spain.
• January 29-30: Urban 20 (U20) Sherpa Meeting, in Paris, France.
• February 1-2, African Center for Cities International Urban
Conference, 9th World Urban Forum - WUF9, Cape Town, South Africa.
• February 7-13, 9th World Urban Forum - WUF9, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• February 26-28, P3C Public-Private Partnerships Conference & Expo | USA,
United States.
• February 28 to March 2: Urban Future Global Conference, Vienna, Austria.
• February 28: Smart City Expo Curitiba - "Innovation as a Motor for
Economic Development", Curitiba, Brazil.
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