What was the Teresópolis 2011? The keys to make the changes.

1. Teresópolis, work to do
Managing Risk for Development
“Whether risks are systemic or idiosyncratic, imposed or taken
on voluntarily, development can occur only by successfully
confronting risk and pursuing opportunity.”
World Bank Overview 2014

2. The biggest natural disaster in Brazil
• Teresópolis: Febrary of 2011
– 10 regions affected
– 35,000 people’s homeless
– 905 deads (population : 163,805 font: IBGE 2010)
– recovery investment: R$ 3 billions.
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3. What was promised?
– R$ 750 millions from Federal Government
– 6,000 houses
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Imagem: Diario Litoral
What was done?
– The money never gone to affected people, was used to the benefit of
the local politics and your friends of the construction enterprises
– Mayor left the government for corruption
– the people still waiting for the houses
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4. Managing Risk for Development
Actions to Teresópolis
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Managing
Risk
Save lives
Prevent Crisis
Mitigate
losses
Pursuing
Opportunities

5. Save lives
 Information for the people about the Risk involved
 Share experience, making a group decision
 Learn with other countries, using the experience
MANAGING RISK:
Historical rain data.
Disaster plan.
Obtaining knowledge.
NO BARRIERS
NO OBSTACLES
PEOPLE PARTICIPATION

6. Prevent Crisis
 Protect the environment and community
 Formal insurances to community
MANAGING RISK:
Work with the
community to act.
Insurance programs to
transfer resources.
NO BARRIERS
NO OBSTACLES
PEOPLE PARTICIPATION

7. Mitigate Losses
 Risk preparation beneficial in averting costs
 People be more willing to undertake new ventures
MANAGING RISK:
Indentify critical gap.
Create long-term
perspective.
NO BARRIERS
NO OBSTACLES
PEOPLE PARTICIPATION

8. Pursuing Opportunities
 Technologies to compute data
 Create coping actions
 Reserve of resources: pay less before, that pay more after
MANAGING RISK:
Analyze the barriers and
obstacles to manage the risk.
Create a guiding principle for
analyze the actions.
NO BARRIERS
NO OBSTACLES
PEOPLE PARTICIPATION

9. Components of Risk management
Knowledge – the people without information, occupy any region.
Government without capacity or interesting to control the illegal
occupancy is a problem for managing risk.
Insurance – the money transfer have to be directly to the affected
people, they know the necessities of the family.
Coping – With planning and people participation, the resources will be
useful and less expensive.
Protection – the preserved area have to be restricted, but without
planning, the city not will be prepare to grow and to development.

10. Teresópolis 2011 (we will never forget)