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CITY COUNCIL OF

BELO HORIZONTE SUPPORT MATERIAL

PREFEITURA MUNICIPAL DE BELO HORIZONTE

Avenida Afonso Pena nº 1212 – Belo Horizonte – Minas Gerais – Brasil Municipal Public Management Chief Executive Officer: Márcio Araújo de Lacerda – Mayor [email protected]

CITY DATA

DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATORS (Source: IBGE / Census 2010)

Population: 2.375.151

Density: 7177 people per km2

Human development index: 0.882 Source: FJP; IBGE / PNAD 2009

ECONOMIC INDICATORS (2010)

Currency: real

Gross Domestic Product - GDP: $ 25.2 billion GDP per capita: U.S. $ 10.6

Economic activities / participation in the GDP

Industry - Trade and services 14.4% - 69.4% Public Sector - 16.2%

CLIMATE

Tropical climate prevalent basically by seasonal rainfall regime; wet, rainy

and dry seasons

Relative humidity: Annual Average of 1,450 mm approx.

Average annual temperature around 21.1° C



Foundation: December 12, 1897

Area: 331 square kilometers

Latitude and Longitude: 19 ° 55'S, 43 ° 56'W

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Minas Gerais

GENERAL ASPECTS OF BELO HORIZONTE CITY

HYDROGRAPHIC NETWORK

700 Km of streams:

200 Km channeled streams

200 Km open river beds in urban area

300 Km environmental protected area



RECURRENT DISASTERS



DISASTERS REDUCTION ACTIONS

EXECUTIVE GROUP OF RISK AREAS (GEAR)

The Executive Group of Risk Areas brings together public managers and companies with

vocation for the prevention and response to disasters. Gathering systematically every

Monday, the recovery needs of the disasters that happened, the weather forecast for

the next week and the demands of preventive interventions for planned adverse events

are socialized.

At the meeting, all 27 institutions and bodies manifest about the occurrences and

vulnerabilities in the city. The solutions are built together, with technical, logistical and

material contribution of those who have vocation and possibility to act. Actions and

deadlines are established and in the next meeting the ongoing actions and the agreed

practical results are checked. The major gain of the methodology is the possibility of

adding solutions and contributions from all participants. Thus the sum of large and small

contributions produces better results! Minutes of the meeting are prepared and distributed

aiming the historical record and the decisions accompaniment.



We are one!

EXECUTIVE PROGRAM OF RISK AREA (PEAR)

Operates in geological risk areas.

The PEAR is part of the Municipal Housing Policy and aims to diagnose, prevent

and minimize geological and geotechnical risk situations in villages and slums.

While promoting its actions, the program contributes to the reduction of accidents,

the preservation and improvement of the population’s quality life.

Belo Horizonte has 211 villages and slums.(2009)



EXECUTIVE PROGRAM OF RISK AREA (PEAR)

Before



After

Before After

PEAR – CLOSER MANAGEMENT

CREAR – REFERENCE CENTER IN RISK AREAS

The centers act as a kind of advanced post of preventive work within the villages, slums

and popular residential areas. Thus, it became easier to the residents to request

inspections, besides intensifying the danger monitoring.

Another benefit of the CREAR is to expand the participation possibility of the residents in

prevention activities, interfering with suggestions and solutions to problems caused by

geological risk. Its facilities are also used for meetings of the Nuclei of Civil Defense and

associative entities.

The technical team which makes up each CREAR is formed by a geologist, an engineer

and an intern resident in the community. The operation is from 8:00 to 12:00 and 1:00

pm to 5:00 pm, from Monday to Friday. The Centers are also equipped with mattresses,

stove and refrigerator, serving as a momentary refuge for families at high risk in

emergency occasions.



PEAR – CLOSER MANAGEMENT



Paulo VI

Taquaril

Serra

Santa Lúcia Vila CEMIG

Cabana

Morro das Pedras

Apolônia

PEAR – SHARED MANAGEMENT

The PEAR works in constant collaboration with the community. Civil Defense

centers were formed with residents of risk areas who are trained to understand

and adopt preventive measures including the use of the CREAR. They participate in

task forces in which small preventive works are carried out with the Community

labor and technical guidance of Belo Horizonte City Council.



Before After Community-oriented work

PEAR – MITIGATING RISKS

In 2011/2012, 124 works were completed by PEAR / PBH maintenance, totalizing an

investment of U.S. $ 4,558,080.71



After Before

After Before

FLOOD MITIGATION PROGRAM

The mitigation and floods program was established by the Municipality of Belo Horizonte

to promote the decontamination of water courses, reduce risks of flooding, and produce

sediment control in natural water resources of the urban perimeter.

In the DRENURBS program, in addition to structural works and flood mitigation, there is

a vigorous aspect focused on monitoring, alerts, and training of residents to secure

coexistence in risk areas.

Through 40 groups of communities volunteers, alerts issued by the monitoring center

are passed on to all families of risk areas. In constant training about postures and

preventive actions, including the Fire Department, these community groups in partnership

with the Municipality of Belo Horizonte has achieved a considerable decrease in human

and material damages as well as in the social losses in recurrent disasters in Belo

Horizonte.




Location of the Rain Alert Nuclei already established in the city, covering the main risk

areas of flooding.

Strong popular participation in the formulation and execution of mitigation policies and

response to disasters in the city of Belo Horizonte.



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The alert system was entirely designed with the community participation, through the

elaboration of the "well known spots" which is the graphical representation of perception

of flood area of each zone vulnerable to the risk of flooding.



SISTEMA DE COMUNICAÇÃO DO ALERTA DE CHUVA

Meeting: “ Well known spots”

elaboration.

RAIN ALERT – COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

RAIN ALERT RECEIVED

BY A NAC TECHNICIAN

We are one!


There are constant community training for preventive attitudes and help in vulnerable

areas:



We are one!


The monitoring and alerting are made through the use of shared technology between

various public authorities of the municipality, state and the federation.

Taking into account the Hyogo Framework recommendations 56 hydrometeorological

stations were installed in the city, allowing the rainfall and the levels of rivers and

streams monitoring. Along with radar data and other available technologies there are

issued alerts to residents of risk areas, to municipal managers with vocation for

preventive actions and to the press which is a partner in releasing immediately the

alert to the entire population.

The credibility of these actions has allowed an effective participation of the media,

especially of the radio, which interrupts programs to spread the Civil Defense alerts.



We are one!


The signaling of eighty flooding points in the city socializing the risks is also one of the

measures to prevent deaths and reduce losses in the city.

This fact has allowed the creation of a permanent risk perception, enabling residents and

visitors, the knowledge of the city vulnerabilities.

The plates not only signal vulnerable points but also indicate the recommended escape

routes.



“In case of heavy rain, avoid

walking in this area”

“Avoid parking at this location,

in case of heavy rain”


The flood mitigation program has already concluded important preventive works and it

still has many others ongoing.



Baleares sub -basin After

Before




Jatobá Olaria Stream




Sub-basin Engenho Nogueira Stream

PARTNERSHIPS WITH ENTITIES AND UNIVERSITIES



The systemic vision of civil protection, implemented by the Municipality of Belo Horizonte,

has sensitized the class entities from the areas of engineering, geology and geotechnics.

High skilled technicians have, on a voluntary, systematic and programmed way, donated

hours of work for preventive actions in hazardous locations. As a result we have had an

increase in the operational capacity and above all a better technical quality in the

achieved supervisions.

We are one!

PARTNERSHIPS WITH ENTITIES AND UNIVERSITIES



The Municipality of Belo Horizonte has an agreement with the local universities in

which engineering students work at the municipal civil defense, devoting volunteer work

hours in preventive inspections. The agreement has the following objectives:

Increase the operational capacity of the municipal civil defense.

Allow students to contact with the social reality of the city, according to their

operating area.

Awaken in students the desire for research concerning to the civil protection subject,

generating academic knowledge about specific local problems.

Encourage the institutionalization of a social engineering focused on the technical

guidance aimed at the poorest layers of the population.

Engineering students participating

in the inspetions We are one!

PARTNERSHIP WITH THE COMMUNITY



Aiming the civil protection in the city, the Municipality of Belo Horizonte maintains two

pages on social networks issuing alerts and interacting with the population. We already

have more than 4000 followers on both pages.

We are one!

EXAMPLES OF ACHIEVED ACTIONS



Flood mitigation

After

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Interaction with the community at risk

We are one!

EXAMPLES OF ACHIEVED ACTIONS

Joint inspections Residents training

After Before



We are one!

ACTIONS IN ALIGNMENT WITH HYOGO FRAMEWORK



1. Ensure that disaster risk reduction (DRR) is a national and a local priority with a

strong institutional basis for implementation:

Existence of a legislation that institutionalizes risk prevention and disaster systematically,

in which all the agencies of the City Council , make part of the city within their

vocation for prevention, preparedness, response and reconstruction in recurrent disasters

in the city.

Existence of GEAR, permanent action group that consistently meets every Monday to

discuss the risks, threats and necessary and urgent mitigating actions.

Well-defined public policies (PEAR and Flood Mitigation) with major investments not

only in infrastructure but also in the approximation with the community at risk.

Existence of a Municipal Fund of public calamity, with resources for assistance and

response to the recurring disasters in the city.




2. Identify, assess and monitor disaster risks and enhance early warning

Existence of geological hazard mapping, identifying house by house, updated every two

years.

Existence of flood letter of Belo Horizonte city, according to mathematical models,

identifying 80 flooding points.

Existence of the risk mapping "well known spots" produced in partnership with the

community, considering the knowledge and risk perception of those who live in

vulnerable areas.

The mappings are used for planning and implementation of mitigating structural actions.

Implementation of modern monitoring system, with 56 hydro-fluviometric stations, which

combined with other technologies, enables more accurate alerts issued.

There is an important partnership with the media, which disseminates the alerts,

including preventive recommendations.

SISTEMA DE COMUNICAÇÃO DO ALERTA DE CHUVARAIN ALERT – COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

RAIN ALERT RECEIVED

BY A NAC TECHNICIAN




3. Use knowledge, innovation and education to build a culture of safety and resilience

at all levels

Development of contingent plans, together with the community, allowing greater range

of early warnings and preventive improvement in risk areas.

Communities training together with other actors who can contribute to the prevention

and resilience of communities at risk.

Offer of lectures, plays and playful works to the vulnerable communities.

Partnerships formation with universities in order to allow engineering and other

sciences students to participate in inspections and researches about risk issues in the

city.

Partnerships with Associations of Specialized Professionals in geology, engineering and

expertise, aggregating voluntary work of professionals of high technical capability,

increasing this way, the preventive recommendations credibility.

Team of the Municipality of

Belo Horizonte and

Engineering students at

fieldwork.




4. Reduce the underlying risk factors

It is implemented a legislation that regulates the buildings safety, the use and soil

occupation as well as the invasions prevention in vulnerable areas.

A robust risk-reduction policy is sedimented (PEAR) with simple structural interventions

with community volunteer work and also with complex interventions through structural

works in the geological risk areas.

Similarly, investments in small and large risk mitigation works for floodings are underway

throughout the city.

The community has a wide participation in these policies, both in the definition of

priorities and in the self-protection networks formation.

There is a civil defense body (COMDEC), available 24 hours per day, easily accessible by the

phone 199, which conducts risk inspections and coordinates other agencies actions of the

system aiming the verified risks reduction.

Flood containment basin

COMDEC acts in disaster

prevention 365 days a year, 24

hours a day.




5. Strengthen disaster preparedness for effective response at all levels

There are contingency plans drawn up with the participation of the community, involving

risk mapping, monitoring and alerting, and also ideal behavior in case of disasters.

The community is organized into Geological Risk Division(NUDEC) and Flood Risk

Division(NAC) which are specifically trained in the dynamics of each vulnerability type.

There is a contingency plan defining the responsibility of Belo Horizonte City Council bodies

and also from other agencies with vocation for the prevention and response to recurring

disasters.

There is a Public Calamity Fund, with defined resources for assistance and response. Each

Municipality agency, within a systemic concept, has resources to respond to disasters within

their institutional competence.




All Belo Horizonte Municipality bodies constitute the municipal civil defense which gets

together every Monday, along with other society agencies and sectors at GEAR (Executive

Group of Risk Areas). In this permanent forum, all disaster risks are discussed; solutions are

built and pending subjects are verified.

ACHIEVED RESULTS



Since 2003 there are no deaths caused by sliding or slipping in Belo Horizonte.

In 2004 were mapped 10,650 homes at high and very high slipping risk.

In 2011/2012 the number of houses at high and very high slipping risk was reduced

to 2,761. (All remain permanently monitored)

Despite numerous floods, it was recorded only three deaths caused by this kind of

disaster in the last three years, one per year.

The risk mitigation and disasters policy in Belo Horizonte has provided great results

based on the systemic view that everyone has something to contribute, everyone is

involved and that civil protection are all of us.

We are one!

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