We are a technopolitical space for generating critical knowledge, based on the dialogue between traditional and scientific knowledge , for the development of strategies that promote sustainability, health and rights for the well-being of traditional communities in their territories.
WHO EXECUTES?
The most prominent institution in science, technology and innovation in health in Latin America, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) is linked to the Brazilian Ministry of Health. Its mission is to produce, disseminate and share knowledge and technologies aimed at strengthening and consolidating the Unified Health System (SUS) and contributing to the promotion of health and quality of life of the Brazilian population , to the reduction of social inequalities and to the national dynamics of innovation, with the OTSS integrated into the Vice-Presidency of Environment, Care and Health Promotion (VPAAPS).
The main organization for the articulation of traditional peoples and communities in the Bocaina region, the Traditional Communities Forum (FCT) is a social movement that brings together indigenous, caiçaras and quilombola communities from the northern coast of São Paulo and the southern coast of Rio de Janeiro to fight together to defend their rights and traditional territories. Founded in 2007, it works in the areas of agroecology, ecological sanitation, differentiated education, artisanal fishing, community-based tourism, social mapping and socio-environmental justice based on the leadership and protagonism of the communities themselves.
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Marcela Cananea
Coordinator of Socio-Environmental Justice at OTSS and member of the National Coordination of Traditional Caiçara Communities (CNCTC) and the FCT
When Fiocruz arrives in the territory and looks at the practices that the communities have here, it identifies this as health. It is healthy to have the autonomy to go out, to fish, to have your traditional cuisine, to have your food security through farms, agroforests. This is what we consider our health.
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Edmund Gallo
General Coordinator of OTSS and Senior Researcher at Fiocruz
“We operate based on the concept of social determination of health, which recognizes that social, economic, cultural, environmental and political conditions are fundamental to determining health and well-being. Therefore, our mission is not only to prevent diseases, but to promote sustainable and healthy territories that generate health and life.”
HOW WE WORK
Indigenous people, caiçaras and quilombolas with seats on the Coordination Board
General coordination shared between Fiocruz and FCT
Academic and community researchers working together
Our methodology for promoting Sustainable and Healthy Territories
OUR TEAM
Traditional communities of origin of our collaborators
Almada - Adventurer - Barequeçaba - Bonete - Boiçucanga - Bracuí - Cambucá - Juquehy - Castelhanos - Parish of Santana - Búzios Island - Monsuaba - Muriqui - Parnaioca - Perequê-Açu/Barra Seca - Picinguaba - Hunger Beach - Bananal Beach - Bonete Beach - Machado Beach - Sono Beach - Red Beach - Provetá - Caçandoca Quilombo - Fazenda Quilombo - Marambaia Quilombo - Campinho Quilombo - Bonito River - Silviera River - Saco do Céu - São Francisco - São Gonçalo - São Sebastião - Puruba Backlands - Taquaral - Tarituba - Ubatumirim - Sahy Village - Ponta Negra - Fora Beach - Santana Parish Beach....
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Leonardo Esteves Freitas
Coordenador Geral de Governança e Gestão do OTSS
The OTSS applies a series of management tools that constantly seek to promote the dialogue of knowledge. In our institutional organizational chart, for example, the first management space is the general coordination. And it is already a space of shared coordination, with a general coordinator who is an academic and a general coordinator who is a community researcher. In all other spaces, we always have academics and community members working together.”
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Ivanildes Pereira
Leader of the Guarani Mbya Rio Bonito village, OTSS researcher and member of the FCT
I think this work is very important for developing knowledge among communities and also with universities. This way, we can have more strength in the fight for knowledge and more recognition, because the work involves the community. Those who will be developing the work in the future will be young people from the communities themselves, and people who come from outside have a different view of traditional peoples and our culture.
WHERE WE OPERATE
Entre os estados de
São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro
Em um território que abriga mais de 200 comunidades caiçaras, indígenas e quilombolas
Na área de abrangência do primeiro Sítio Misto vivo do patrimônio mundial da UNESCO
na América do Sul
Em uma região onde
territórios tradicionais foram sobrepostos por Unidades de Conservação com diferentes graus de proteção
Em um território marcado por conflitos e impactos de grandes empreendimentos nas áreas de energia, infraestrutura e turismo
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Julio Garcia Karay
Special Advisor for Community Articulation at OTSS and member of the Guarani Yvyrupá Commission (CGY) and the FCT
Our struggle is for the protection of our territories and with it comes all our demands. Education, sanitation, agroecology, community-based tourism, and better health. So that everyone also respects nature, our way of life, the Guarani way of being, the Caiçara way of being, the quilombola way of being.”
WHO WE WORK WITH
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Ana Carolina Barbosa
Caiçara do Ubatumirim, Pesquisadora do OTSS e integrante do FCT
The OTSS, in its various actions in the Bocaina territory, brings together indigenous people, caiçaras and quilombolas to dialogue with other institutions on issues that are urgent for traditional peoples and communities. The articulation and construction of a large network like this, with partners and supporters, is very important to us.
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Valcler Rangel
Vice-President of Environment, Care and Health Promotion at Fiocruz (VPAAPS).
“The Observatory is very important for Fiocruz because it gives us good examples of how to build a policy focused on the sustainability of territories in dialogue with local populations. We have learned a lot from our partners and from the quilombola and indigenous caiçara populations that live in this territory.”
WHAT WE DO
A Governança Viva é o alicerce sobre o qual todos os outros eixos do OTSS se apoiam, pois enfatiza a importância da participação. Este eixo enfoca a criação e o fortalecimento de redes entre comunidades locais, governos, movimentos sociais, organizações não-governamentais, agências internacionais e setor privado para ampliar a troca de experiências entre territórios e incidir nas políticas públicas.
Neste eixo temático, atuamos nas seguintes áreas de atuação:A Justiça Socioambiental é o eixo que garante que as práticas de desenvolvimento e conservação sejam justas e equitativas, reconhecendo e combatendo as desigualdades que afetam desproporcionalmente as comunidades tradicionais. Ao promover a justiça socioambiental, trabalhamos para assegurar que todos tenham acesso a um ambiente saudável e que as práticas das comunidades sejam reconhecidas e valorizadas.
Neste eixo temático, atuamos nas seguintes áreas de atuação:A Educação Emancipatória contribui para a transformação social, articulando indivíduos e comunidades para participarem ativamente da defesa de seus territórios e da promoção de seus direitos. Este eixo se contrapõe às práticas educacionais convencionais, baseadas na memorização e na reprodução de conteúdo, propondo, em vez disso, uma educação dialógica que valoriza o saber das pessoas e a construção coletiva do conhecimento.
Neste eixo temático, atuamos nas seguintes áreas de atuação:A Economia Solidária representa um eixo importante de nossa atuação ao promover práticas econômicas que são ecologicamente responsáveis, socialmente justas e economicamente viáveis. Este modelo se distingue por sua ênfase na cooperação, na gestão democrática e na equidade, contrapondo-se ao paradigma convencional de competição e maximização de lucros a todo custo.
Neste eixo temático, atuamos nas seguintes áreas de atuação:
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Indira Alves France
OTSS Knowledge Management Coordinator and Fiocruz employee
We believe in different types of knowledge and that we can only build a sustainable project if we can reconcile these different types of knowledge. And it is this exchange that makes projects truly appropriate for communities, research institutions, social movements and everyone who participates in our processes.”
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Marco Menezes
Director of the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (ENSP/Fiocruz)
The new horizontalized way of producing knowledge has to start from this perspective of the territories. And doing with, not doing for. It is science done with the movements based on the demands of the movements. And looking at health today means thinking about actions that integrate, for example, care, promotion and the environment based on the territories.”
WHAT WE WANT
By 2030, be an advanced campus of Fiocruz and FCT that contributes to the global sustainable development agenda based on a governance model that proves capable of promoting the territorialization of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda 2030) and the concrete improvement of sustainability and health indicators in the traditional territories of Bocaina.
RECOGNITIONS
Experience awarded by the 27th National Competition for Innovation in the Public Sector, by ENAP, in the category “Innovation in services or public policies in the Federal Executive Branch - 2024
Network of Defenders of Traditional Territories recognized by the Defensorar Award from the Public Defender's Office of the State of Rio de Janeiro in the “Defense of the Territory” category - 2024
First place in the thematic line “Sustainable and Healthy Territories” of the 1st Exhibition of Experiences in Environmental Health of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) - 2021
Experience recognized as one of the 10 most innovative solutions of 2021 for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Brazil by the Civil Society Working Group for the 2030 Agenda - 2021
“Transformative investment” for sustainable development according to the Big Push platform of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) – 2020
Honorable Mention of the ODS Brazil Award in the “Teaching, Research and Extension” category – 2018
