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Maranhão Verde Program. SDGs 1, 2, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15.

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Description
Intro

The Maranhão Verde Program, established by State Law 10,595 / 2017, and regulated by State Decree No. 32,969 / 2017, is designed to promote and develop projects aimed at supporting conservation and environmental recovery, involving the participation of beneficiary families, preferably, represented by the female head of the family. Each family is selected through a Call and signing of the Adhesion Term and receives the "Maranhão Verde Grant" as Payment for the Environmental Services rendered. The duration of the Program depends on the needs indicated in the analysis of the areas in which the projects will be implemented.

Objective of the practice

The objective of the Maranhão Verde Program is to generate environmental and social benefits by promoting citizenship, improving living conditions and raising the income of the population living in extreme poverty, as well as promoting environmental, social, technical and educational empowerment of families and execution of activities such as the production of seedlings and reforestation of native species. It also aims at empowering women and promoting gender equality, given that it is directed, preferably, to heads of families, who carry out the activities of the Project, receive the financial resources of the grant and function as replicators of the actions for the other members of the family.

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The objective is to generate environmental and social benefits by promoting citizenship, improving living conditions and raising the income of the population living in extreme poverty, as well as promoting environmental, social, technical and educational empowerment of families and execution of activities such as the production of seedlings and reforestation of native species. It also aims at empowering women and promoting gender equality, given that it is directed, preferably, to heads of families, who carry out the activities of the Project, receive the financial resources of the grant and function as replicators of the actions for the other family members.
Implementation of the Project/Activity

After the selection of the areas of the Maranhão Verde Program, a project is prepared for the execution of this program. So far, the Program has been implemented through two projects, namely: "Berço do Rio Itapecuru" and "Floresta Protetora dos Mananciais," which began on 12/09/2017 and 04/06/2018, respectively. The execution takes place through a partnership with the Civil Society Organization, which are selected by Public Call, consisting of the following steps: diagnosis, mapping and prognosis of the areas to be recovered; establishment of the prioritization criteria for family selection; publication of the call and pre-selection of families enrolled in the call; mobilization and environmental education of families; signature of the term of adhesion by the selected families; training of beneficiary families; actions aimed at the conservation and recovery of the Project area, such as the planting of native seedlings, revegetation, isolation of the area to provide natural regeneration, enrichment of areas using the nucleation technique, and monitoring and evaluation of the actions by means of survey of primary and secondary data of the area, reporting, monitoring of actions, final report with on-site survey, creation of database, and other follow-up actions of the Civil Society Organizations and beneficiary families.

Results/Outputs/Impacts
Among the results achieved to date, we had the construction of 7 nurseries of native seedlings with a production capacity of 48,000 native seedlings per nursery each cycle. They are benefited about 500 families in extreme poverty, most of which is represented in the Program for female heads of household. The projects that are already in the process of reforesting riparian forests and springs of water bodies with around 700 thousand seedlings of native species are considered, and 13 technical capacities are granted in each of the projects. As the Program is still in execution the other positive and negative impacts are still being monitored and will be better qualified and quantified at the end of the projects.
Enabling factors and constraints
The collection provided by the Environmental Compensation allowed the projects to be started in two State Conservation Units of integral protection, being these, Mirador State Park and Bacanga State Park. However, the lack of other sources of funding, the lack of human resources, and the lack of an exclusive physical structure for the development of the work of the Maranhão Verde Program make it difficult for new areas to be considered. The lack of engagement of some families is also one of the difficulties, whose overcoming has been sought through interactive activities and awareness of families in home visits. The Program has made it possible for the communities to be included in the conservation and recovery of the areas, and the environmental education capacities make the families understand the importance of the commitment to contribute to the maintenance of the ecologically balanced environment.
Sustainability and replicability
For the sustainability of the Program, the families receive environmental education training and techniques applied in the recovery of the environment. In addition, seedlings have been reforested in ciliary forest and aquifer recharge areas and others are being cultivated in nurseries. The costs and efficiency can only be evaluated after the execution of some of the Program's actions. There are plans to expand the Program to more municipalities that have important hydrographic basins and that have Conservation Units.
Conclusions

The Maranhão Verde Program is the first environmental public policy initiative in the State of Maranhão. It is also the first Environmental Payments Program and aims at reforestation with the assistance of families living in extreme poverty who work directly with conservation and environmental recovery. In addition, the Program is also inserted as a gender policy by prioritizing the representation of the family and receiving the "Maranhão Verde Grant" by the woman head of the family unit. The impacts of the application of the resources and the efficiency of the capacities and actions developed by the families will be determined at the end of each Project.

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Timeline
24 May 2017 (start date)
31 December 2022 (date of completion)
Entity
State Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources of Maranhão
SDGs
15 2 10 11 5 1 12 13
Region
  1. Latin America and the Caribbean
Geographical coverage
It is currently running in the Mirador State Park, which covers the municipalities of Mirador, Fernando Falcão and Formosa de Serra Negra and in the Bacanga State Park, in the municipality of São Luís
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Contact Information

Talissa Moraes, Assistant Secretary of Environmental Resources of the State Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources of Maranhão

talissamoraes.sema@gmail.com