| Calha Norte Program (Programa Calha Norte - PCN) |
Ministry of Defense |
Promote the occupation and orderly development of the Northern Amazon, respecting regional, cultural and environmental characteristics. |
Actions distributed in two dimensions of performance: Military Branch - Maintenance of Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity; and Civilian Side - Supporting Government Actions in Promoting Regional Development. |
369 municipalities in 8 States (AC, AM, AP, MG, part of MS, PA RO and RR) |
From 1985 |
Social, Economic and Environmental / Security and Development |
| Free Trade Areas (Áreas de Livre Comércio - ALC) |
MDIC1 and SUFRAMA2
|
Generate jobs and income, better infrastructure, training of human resources, among others. |
Actions to support production, economic infrastructure, research and development, training of human resources and promotion of tourism projects through agreements signed with federal, state and municipal government agencies, educational institutions, universities and non-profit entities. |
Tabatinga (AM), Macapá/Santana (AP), Guajará-Mirim (RO), Boa Vista and Bonfim (RR) and Epitaciolândia and Cruzeiro do Sul (AC) |
From 1989 |
Economic and Social / Trade |
| Program Promoting Development of the Border Strip (Programa de Desenvolvimento da Faixa de Fronteira- PDFF) |
Ministry of Integration |
Resume the development process of the region. |
Actions committed to: i) structuring and streamlining local productive arrangements; ii) support for implementing complementary, social and productive infrastructure; iii) support for the generation of productive enterprises; iv) social organization and associativism; and v) formation of agents for the integrated and sustainable development in the Border Strip. |
BS municipalities |
From 1999, restructured in 2005, concluded in 2015 |
Social and Economic/ Development and Integration |
| Facilitation of Road Transport at the Borders |
ANTT3 and the Ministry of Tourism |
Efficiently manage terrestrial tourist transportation, linking the Ministry of Tourism Registration System (CADASTUR) to the ANTT Certification System. |
Actions in favor of developing a clear and consistent policy that allows the efficient management of the Brazilian terrestrial tourist transport to unify information and create a seal to be affixed on vehicles that allows the fiscalizing agent to check the regularity of the tourist transporter |
BS municipalities |
From 2001 |
Social and Economic/ Transport and Tourism |
| Migratory Issues |
Ministry of Labor and Employment |
Legalize residence and work of nationals abroad and vice versa. |
Actions to create a single regulatory framework to deal with flows of cross-border workers, aiming to undo the asymmetries generated by the adoption of a differentiated policy, formatted according to geographic location, Brazilian interests and the relationship with the neighboring country. |
Variable, according to location, interests and relationship with neighboring country |
From 2002 |
Social and Economic/ Migration and Labor |
| Concertation of Borders and Frontier Tourism Program (Programa Turismo de Fronteiras - FRONTUR) |
Ministry of Tourism |
Enable and commercialize integrated tourism in the BS. |
Actions to promote tourism generated in the border scenario, bringing together all agencies and entities related to cross-border tourism to discuss and find solutions focused on facilitating the international flow of tourists. |
BS municipalities |
From 2003 |
Social and Economic/Tourism |
| Bilingual Border Schools Intercultural Project |
Ministry of Education |
To construct a common model of teaching in schools in the border zone from an intercultural education program (Portuguese and Spanish). |
Actions to promote an exchange between teachers from countries bordering Brazil, with a view to integrating Brazilian students and teachers with students and teachers from neighboring countries. Teachers, from both countries, plan the lessons together and determine which parts of the project will be exchanged, so that what occurs is not teaching of the foreign language, but teaching in the foreign language, creating a real bilingual environment for the students. |
Twin cities in Brazil with bordering countries 4
|
From 2005 |
Social/ Education |
| Integrated Border Health System (Sistema Integrado de Saúde das Fronteiras - SIS-Fronteira) |
Ministry of Health |
Improve health care at the border. |
Actions for local health diagnosis and elaboration of an operational plan, aiming at qualifying professionals in the services and actions and improvement of the network of health services in the frontier municipalities. |
121 municipalities that are situated within 10 km from the border |
From 2005 to 2014 |
Social/Health |
| Borders and Migration Issues (SINIVEM5/ PRONASCI6) |
Ministry of Justice - Federal Police Department |
Mapping criminals to reduce regional crime rates and mitigate the impacts of migratory flows towards the national territory. |
Actions to map criminals, through a broad and unrestricted process of cooperation between government intelligence agencies. |
BS municipalities |
From 2007 |
Social/Security |
| Protected Amazônia Program (Programa Amazônia Protegida -PAP) |
Brazilian Army |
Increase the number of border squads in the forest and modernize them, as well as create new brigades. |
Actions aimed at creating new brigades, modernization of platoons and restructuring of existing ones. |
Border strip in Amazônia |
From 2008 |
Social/Security |
| Land tenure regularization |
INCRA7
|
Prioritize land regularization and the ratification of titles in the BS. |
Actions relating to the legitimation of rural property; ratification of rural properties that were unduly titrated by the States; analysis of usucaption actions; analysis of domain chains and studies when creating rural settlement projects and quilombola communities; verification of compliance with the clauses of the securities issued; deactivation and issuance of concession of Real Right of Use in the case of conservation units; monitoring social function of land; updating the rural register; georeferencing certification; assignment and donation of areas to municipalities, associations, churches; discrimination and collection of vacant land; issuing of declaratory terms - Braviaco; etc. |
BS municipalities |
From 2009 |
Economic and environmental / Land Tenure and Environmental Licensing Regularization |
| Program for the Promotion of Sustainability of Sub-Regional Spaces (Programa de Promoção da Sustentabilidade de Espaços Sub-Regionais - PROMESO) |
Ministry of Regional Integration |
Increase autonomy and sub-regional sustainability, by stimulating: social organization, development of endogenous potentials and strengthening of productive bases. |
Actions on two axes: - stimulation and strengthening of the meso-regional forums so that they are channels of civil society participation in defining actions to be contemplated with public investments; - economic activation through the promotion of Local Productive Arrangements identified as priorities in the meso-regions. |
Alto Solimões, Vale do Rio Acre, Mercosur Border and Southern Rio Grande do Sul. |
From 2009 |
Economic, Social and Environmental |
Source: Produced by authors based on the FIRJAN (2014)
Source: Produced by authors based on the FIRJAN (2014)
Source: Produced by authors based on the FIRJAN (2014)
Source: Produced by authors based on the FIRJAN (2014)