Institutional Folder

Meet the Instituto Ilhabela Sustentável and Movimento Nossa Ilha Mais Bela for their

actions over time.

The Instiuto Ilhabela Sustentável is an OSCIP - Public Interest Social Organization, a non government entity that supports the Movimento Nossa Ilha Mais Bela, seeking the empowerment of civil society, within demo-cratic principles, to achieve sustainable development in Ilhabela. All projects, articulations and actions were developed thanks to the commitment of the staff and volunteers, and the financial contribution of people and companies that, like you, look forward to a juster, worthier and more sustainable future. The participation of everyone is crucial for the strengthening of this movement of social transformation. Follow what we have done and understand how to collaborate. We are all responsible for the present and the future of our city.

Nossa Ilha Mais Bela and Instituto Ilhabela SustentávelIn 2007, with Ilhabela showing a high demographical growth, risk of deterioration in the quality of life, con-cerns on security, environment, disorderly occupation, urbanism, employment and drugs, the ‘Manifesto do Movimento Nossa Ilha Mais Bela’ (Manifesto of the Mo-vement for a More Beautiful Island) is launched and cul-minates, in May 2007, in the foundation of the Instituto Ilhabela Sustentá vel (Sustainable Ilhabela Institute), whi-ch promotes and fi nancially supports the Movement.

• The Movement was inspired by similar initiatives in other cities such as Bogotá Como Vamos and Rede Nossa São Paulo;• It is a NONPARTISAN Movement;• The Movimento Nossa Ilha Mais Bela is not of opposi-tion to the government. Rather it seeks to strengthen it;

Appreciation of: • Universal access to public services of good quality;• Employment and income;• Responsible citizenship;• Government transparency;

Non-acceptance of:• Aggressions to the environment;• Disrespect for fundamental human rights;• Informality and corruption;• Impunity.

The Instituto Ilhabela Sustentável, known to be an nonpartisan institution seeking the construction of a more just, worthy and sustainable city, and for promoting the participation and organization of the civil society.

• In September 2008, the Ins-tituto Ilhabela Sustentável obtains the OSCIP Certifi ca-tion (Civil Society Organiza-tion of Public Interest).

• In September 2008, the Movimento Nossa Ilha Mais Bela is a co-founder of the Brazilian Social Network for Sustainable and Just Cities.

In January 2009, the Nossa Ilha Mais Bela participates in the World Social Forum held in Belém, state of Pará.

• In September de 2009 the Instituto Ilhabela Sustentá-vel is awarded the “Prêmio-Cambuci de Sustentabili-dade” given to people and groups that believe in the idea of promoting the sus-tainable development in the

Biospheric Reserve of the Green Belt of the City of São Paulo.

• Environmental entity of the SMA SP

The Institute has a technical team and volunteers that work in the development and implementation of projects, monitoring targets and indicators, articulating civil society, dialogue with the public powers, promoting citizenship and the follow-up of public administration, through organized working groups since 2007.

Its activities are focused in three dimensions: 1. Follow-up of Public Administration, 2. Infl uence in Public Policies and Public Regional Works3. Mobilization of Civil Society

1. Public Administration

Challenge: transform the municipal public administration into a professional, participatory and transparent one.

Follow-up of the Public Budget and its Transparency

Carried out by the Working Group that monitors budget and in-dicators, formed by staff members and volunteers, qualifi ed in Municipal Public Budget, whose objective is to identify indicators that can help the public administration in taking decisions and to collect data about them, allowing the civil society monitoring, establishing comparison parameters. Presently off ers to whoever is interested, detailed information about public budget, through worksheets supplied by organs such as the State Court of Auditors.

• Produces annually the Municipal Budget Follow-Up report, which goal is to publicize the use of public money, analyzing and com-menting all the budgetary pieces of the four last years, benchma-rking with other municipalities and success cases of the use of pu-blic resources in diff erent areas.

Quality Life and Environmental Indicators

We annually produce a gathering and consolida-tion of Social, Economic, Environmental and Public Administration Indicators, that are stored in an online database called SIGA – Indi-cators and Geo-referenced and Environmental Indica-tors and Information, with

more than 300 indicators divided in 10 theme axes, besides several theme maps, is not only a help for the administration to establish a Target Plan, but provides the civil society an important tool of monitoring and social control, allowing each citizen to better unders-tand public policies and infl uence the future of the place where he lives.

The 10 axes are:

• Governance and Transparent administration• Environment, Consumption and Responsible Attitude• Security, Equity and Social Justice• Urban Planning and Occupation• Culture for Sustainability• Education for Sustainability • Dynamic Local Economy end Sustainable Tourism • Mobility and Transportation • Local Action for Health• Sports, Leisure and Recreation

In 2013, after a workshop for the public budget admi-nistrators, around 70 indicators were adopted for the preparation of the PPA (Multiyear Annual Planning), a big advance in the follow-up of the Participative Pu-blic Budget.

Since 2008, the Institu-to Ilhabela Sustentável presents through IBOPE – Instituto Brasileiro de

Opinião Pública e Estatística, a Citizenship Perception Survey, which evaluates how the city is perceived by the population and what they want for the improve-ment of the quality of life and the monitoring of these indicators.

Follow-up of the City Concil

Performed through the Working Group of vo-lunteers that follows and evaluates the City Council

work throughout the year, showing it on a website and through social networks, and producing an an-nual report containing a performance analysis of the Council and its members.

The Instituto Ilhabela Sus-tentável is one of the co--founders of the “Obser-vatório Social de Ilhabela”, which has the mission of

being an instrument for the exercise of citizenship and participation of society in the monitoring of the use and application of public resources by the muni-cipal government. Since August 2010, the Instituto Ilhabela Sustentável supports fi nancially and techni-cally the Observatory in the analysis and follow-up of public bids, and in the publicity of indicators of public administration.

Support to the Social Oservatory

2. Infl uence in Public Policies and Public Regional Works

Challenge: Get the Strategic Development Plan for Ilhabela and the North Coast of São Paulo, made with strong participation of the civil society, allowing its monitoring.

• Municipal Level: Participation, through its staff members and volunteers, in all the Municipal Councils of Policies and other forums.1. CMMA – Environment2. CMPCI – Culture3. CMPDSA – Development and occupation policies4. Review of the Master Plan of the city5. COMTUR - Tourism6. CMDCA – Child and Adolescents7. COMSOD – Drugs

Be a partner institution with Fundação Florestal, participating in actions that seek to transform the State Park of Ilhabela in an ecotourism, sustainability and use of natural resources model, providing visitors with an organized, safe and pleasant activity, giving the traditional communities an alternative for income generation.

Actions:• Participation in the construction of the Management Plan.• Restructure plan for the Trilha do Gato, as a result of a Cooperation Agreement between the Institute, Fundação Florestal and the Municipal Department of Tourism, made possible with fi nancing obtained by the IIS. These ac-tions for ecotourism purposes began in january 2009, with interventions to secure risky parts of the trail, adapta-tions with stairs in more diffi cult parts of the path, construction of a deck close to the waterfall and a suspended watching bridge. This trail was chosen for its touristic importance, its waterfall more than 60 meters high, the incomparable beauty of the Gato beach and because it involves a traditional community.

• State/Regional Level: Participation, through staff and volunteers, in the Regional Councils and Forums of Pu-blic Policies and Planning:1. ZEE – Envionmental, Economical Planning for the North Coast2. RMVale – Metropolitan Region that includes North Coast and Vale do Paraíba. 3. Member of REALNorte: Environmental entities in the North Coast.4. CC-PEIb – Consultive board of the state park a. Institucional support through political articulation, seeking ways of giving the State Park a leading role in Ilhabela b. Develop the Municipal Plan of Mata Atlantica5. APA - Marinha do Litoral Norte 6. ESEC – Estação Ecológica Tupinambás

Since 2007, the Institute promotes the World Car Free Day to incentivate the use of bicycles and other alternative and

more sustainable transportation. Since then has alre-ady organized bike rides, lectures and forums to dis-cuss the subject.

The Farol da Ilha: an infor-mative newspaper that hopes to raise awareness

among the Ilhabela population about the place whe-re they live, inform about activities that promote citi-zenship and sustainability, to spread out values that are of benefi t to collective interest and to open up a new communication channel with the population.

The Campaign Voto Consciente é Voto Sus-tentável in its editions of 2008, 2010 and 2012, years of municipal and state elections, took to the population con-cepts of citizenship and

basic information about the voting process, poin-ting out the importance of voting and each one’s responsibility with the future of the city.

Booklets and comic books are produced, with the theme of wild animal protection, in partnership with the Fundação Florestal and Parque Estadual de Ilha-bela.

In 2014 the Instiuto will also work a program for youngsters from high schools called Projeto de Vida e Orientação Profi ssional, trying to show new prospec-tive to our teenagers in building their future.

The IIS will also develop in 2014 an Environmental Education and Communication Project, fi nanced by FEHIDRO – Fundo Estadual de Recursos Hídricos. The ÁguaBela focuses on information to the population about Environmental Legislation, use and water pro-tection.

Citizen’s Channel: tool in fi nal phase of development, that intends to be a registration gateway of information such as Sugestions, Demands, Complaints, Opinions and Pro-posals that will be forwarded automatically, after registra-tion, to the diff erent channels of the responsible public departments.

Fórum Nossa Ilha Mais Bela: space to stimulate deba-tes, refl ections, proposals constructions, change of experiences and articulation to built an Ilhabela just, worthy and sustainable.

Support to the process of constitution and election of boards for the Associação de Moradores e Amigos do Bairro do Itaquanduba e Itaguaçu e da Barra Velha.

3. Mobilization of Civil Society

Challenge: Transform the Civil Society of Ilhabela into an organized, engaged, participative and citizen actor in the life of the city and in social control.

Education Program for Citizenship

The Minha Ilha Nossa Ilha Program, is mainly focused on projects, campaigns, ac-tions and activities that in-centive and strengthen the population participation in the life of the community, giving the opportunity to develop citizenship.

Sou Cidadão Sou Ilhabela Campaign :Sou Cidadão Sou Ilhabela, sponsored by Itaú Unibanco is a

communication campaign to generate personal and collective refl ection, with messages based on the idea that everybody can contribute for a better city, throu-gh sustainable citizen actions and practices.

Sponsored by CEDS – Centro de Experimenta-ção e Desenvolvimento Sustentáveland by Itaú Unibanco, the project Cuidando Bem do Nosso Lixo was created to sensi

The Instituto Ilhabela Sus-tentável, in partnership with RealNorte, an entity that represents several social environmental orga-nizations from the state of SãoPaulo northern coast, launches the campaign to challenge and adjust the expansion project of the

São Sebastião harbor and to have it adapted to the reality of the region which is primarily touristic: avoi-ding to jeopardize this vocation and the preservation of its natural and cultural heritage, demanding the project to follow healthy economical principles, besi-des meeting environmental and ethical criteria.

Bairro Legal Operation: Team formation of Young Citizen Agents that ac-ted as multipliers of ci-tizenship in their neigh-borhoods and schools.

Hired as interns, the youngsters were stimulated to develop activities within several interest areas, stimu-lating and mobilizing the community to participate in the life of the town.

Art and Education Workshops, with environ-mental and belonging themes: Workshop of Pa-per Mache and Recycling and Workshop of Waste

Photography , beside Workshops of Amateur Cinema, with the production of short movies telling tales of the city.

tize the population about the importance of the right destination of solid waste.

Earth Outreach: in 2012 we applied and got selected to receive the Google pro-

gram that supports non profi table organizations and recognized public benefi t, giving us the knowledge and resources necessary to make our causes visible through mapping technologies as Google Earth and Google Maps among others. So we can inform about laws, points of interest, indicators and other speciali-zed information to the community in internet, increa-sing the territorial awareness.

Member of the Brazilian Social Network for Sustainable and Just Cities, and part its executive secretariat.

Ilhabela will be headquarter of the next meeting in November 2014The net meeting happens every year. In 2014, it will be Ilhabela’s turn to host the event. According to Carlos Nunes, a member of Nossa Ilha Mais Bela, it will be a great satisfaction for the movement to be hosting this year’s event. “We are very happy with the confirmation of this meeting. Our town, which is the National Capital of Sailing, will be temporarily the capital of the just and sus-tainable cities and we will start working right away in its organization, to meet

the expectations of all representatives of the other movements. We invite the participants to, besides taking part of the event, enjoy our natural beauties and attractions” concludes Nunes.

Main actions of the Network scheduled for 2014

• Participation in the Porto Alegre Social Theme Forum 2014, which occurs within the articulation and mobili-zation processes of the World Social Forum.It has an international character and is dedicated to reflections and discussions regarding some social and political struggles of social organizations and movements.

• Sustainable cities commitments of state governments

• ProgramBrasil + 20: Participate of the articulation and implementation of this program – Sustainable cities – of the Environment Ministry

• Sustainable Cities Award

• Transparency of the Courts of Auditors

• Mobility and Solid Waste Plans

• PEC (Projeto de Emenda Constitucional) for Target Plans

• 2014 World Cup– monitoring of legacy (only for headquarters cities)

• Consocial – monitoring proposals of the National Social Control Conference

• World Urban Forum/ONU-Habitat

• Political reform – Coalition for the political reform

Vision and Mission of Instituto Ilhabela Sustentável

Vision: To be a nonpartisan institution recognized by the excellence of its performance to-wards building a more just, dignified and sustainable Ilhabela.

Mission: To promote the participation and the organization of the civil society aiming at the planning, implementation and monitoring of actions for the sustainable development of Ilhabela.

Values:

Ethics: the IIS gives importance to an impartial, honest and moral posture in the relations with different publics, in order to build trustworthy and credible relationship.

Democracy: the IIS works for the development of citizenship, transparency and strength of the institutions, that are base for the consolidation of a juster and more sustainable society.

Justice: the IIS fights for the respect to laws and social equality.

Sustainability: the IIS believes that sustainability of a society is obtained with the balance of its economical, social and environmental relations.

Life: the IIS thinks it is important to respect all forms of life, respect people and be suppor-tive. It does not tolerate abuse, insensitivity or arrogance.

Excellency: coherent with the IIS vision, commitment with excellency is essential and must be based on innovation, quality and consistency of the developed actions.

Rua Olímpio Leite da Silva, 77 - Perequê | Ilhabela - São Paulo - Brasil55 12 3896-3015 | [email protected] | www.iis.org.br