Guilherme Boulos: A Vision for São Paulo

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On 27 October 2024, voters in São Paulo will go to the polls in the second round to elect the new mayor of Brazil's largest city — and the largest city in the southern hemisphere. Federal deputy Guilherme Boulos, current Federal Deputy from the Party for Socialism and Freedom (PSOL), will put forward a working class, progressive vision for São Paulo in this critical race, with the support of President Lula and the Workers' Party (PT). The following represents Guilherme Boulos' governing program, translated here for the first time.

Health

  1. Creating the “Timesaver” service for health care. End the waiting lines for exams and consultations in the municipal public SUS network, by creating 16 polyclinics and diagnostic centers, decentralized in all regions of the city and using the scheduling and efficiency model established by the Poupatempo units. (Translator’s note: Poupatempo (”Timesaver”) is a program of the São Paulo government that offers more than 400 services related to official documents and public services in one place.)
  2. Establishing the “More Doctors” Specialist Program. Open calls for accreditation of doctors to work in the specialties most in need of professionals, particularly in the peripheral regions of the city, where there is a greater shortage of specialists. (Translator’s note: Mais Médicos (”More Doctors”) is a program launched in 2013 by former President Dilma Rousseff to increase the number and reach of doctors to underserved areas.)
  3. Implementing an innovative digital health program that promotes tele-health care, effectively setting up Digital Basic Health Units and offering citizens transparency regarding the status of their requests, including their position in the waiting list for appointments and elective surgeries, as well as digital access to exams.
  4. Improving oversight of public health contracts and develop quality indicator targets. Organize and unify the labor policy for SUS workers, which is currently precarious, guaranteeing procedures and a universal standard of care for directly employed and contracted workers. (Translator’s note: Sistema Único de Saúde - SUS (”Unified Health System”) is Brazil’s public health care system.)
  5. Eliminating health care gaps, establishing primary care, specialist and urgent/emergency care facilities in the neighborhoods with the highest demand. This includes the installation of new Basic Health Units, Family Health Teams, Urgent Care Units, specialty outpatient clinics, oral health units, Specialized Rehabilitation Centres and Elderly Health Care Units. We will also create new hospital beds, both by reactivating currently unused beds and by building new municipal hospitals.
  6. Strengthening the mental health network. We will focus special attention on the city’s mental health by setting up new Psychosocial Care Centers for adults, children, and drug and alcohol users, including guaranteeing urgent/emergency psychiatric care in all municipal hospitals.
  7. Medicines on demand. We are going to guarantee the availability of medicines throughout the municipal health network by implementing a program for the procurement, efficient logistical distribution and supply of pharmacies.

Education

  1. Implementing comprehensive education in all schools. We will transform school into a space for coexistence, cooperation and community, extending the school day and offering cultural, sports and leisure activities after school. The program will be implemented gradually, in dialogue with school districts, and with the permanent aim of valuing education professionals and updating school facilities with improvements.
  2. Psychologists in all schools. In partnership with the health department, all city schools will be monitored by psychologists, enabling them to connect families, the community and the school, preventing school drop-outs and tackling the serious problem of mental health among children and young people.
  3. São Paulo Free of Illiteracy. We will promote a large-scale effort, in partnership with civil society, to teach young people and adults to read, write and interpret, working in harmony with the Youth and Adult Literacy Movement and Integrated Youth and Adult Education Centers.
  4. Policy for valuing educators. Investing in continuing education for teachers and in pedagogical and technological innovation, establishing partnerships with universities. We will also institute a permanent policy to increase salaries, including in the partner network for early childhood education, and strengthen the democratic management of public education.
  5. Open School Program. Transforming schools into weekend social spaces, encouraging cooperation and offering leisure activities for the whole community.
  6. Establishing 80 Unified Educational Centers in the city. We will deliver at least 22 new Unified Educational Centers, guaranteeing coverage in neighborhoods that still don't have the facilities, restoring their original purpose of integrating education, culture and leisure, managed by the community.
  7. Quality early childhood education. We will invest in improving and modernizing municipal Early Childhood Education Centres, guaranteeing adequate infrastructure for all children. We will offer a safe, stimulating and welcoming environment that promotes the comprehensive early development from the first years of life, while valuing all early childhood education professionals.

Youth

  1. Establishing Opportunity Centers. In neighborhoods where there are lower levels of education, employment and income, we will create facilities for young people and adults aged 15 and over, aimed at vocational training for the new economy and support for entrepreneurship. The Opportunity Centers will have free WiFi, audiovisual studios and courses aimed at the creative and digital economy, such as programming, design, information technology, environmental engineering, fashion, tourism, languages and cooking. The proposal is to connect vocational training with the service and technological economy that characterizes 21st century São Paulo.
  2. Mental health for young people. We will expand existing mental health services and create a specific program to support youth mental health, with a focus on depression and anxiety, as well as suicide prevention among young people.

Urban Security

  1. Safer São Paulo program, which will double the number of Metropolitan Civil Guard officers (currently just over 7,000) and implement the proximity policing strategy. The program will guarantee the Metropolitan Civil Guard physical presence on the streets, based on the city's crime incidence map, working at bus stops, on the main roads and streets, and in the commercial centers of neighborhoods and the city center.
  2. Safe Schools program. Have a Metropolitan Civil Guard vehicle at the door of each municipal school when students enter and leave, as well as conducting neighborhood policing during intermediate hours, through beat patrols.
  3. Program to combat domestic violence. Expansion of the Maria da Penha Guard Patrol, with more guards, vehicles and decentralized bases, to act promptly to prevent and guarantee protective measures, integrated with the network for protecting and combating violence against women and femicide. (Translator’s note: The Maria da Penha Guard Patrol is responsible for the urgent protection of women at imminent risk of domestic violence before they can receive social services such as emergency health units and shelters.)
  4. Task force to combat resale of stolen cell phones. Permanent information gathering action that will map and intervene in businesses that resell stolen cell phones, using the power of municipal inspection, with fines and, in the event of repeat offenses, closing down the business. We will work together with the Civil Police, the Federal Revenue Service and the Federal Police to tackle cell phone theft, inhibiting the criminal market.
  5. Valuing the Metropolitan Civil Guard. We will expand and enhance the Metropolitan Civil Guard, equipping all operational staff with body cameras and renewing obsolete equipment and vehicles. We will also promote pay rises and permanent qualifications for the guards.

Mobility

  1. Expansion of bus corridors. We will expand the exclusive spaces for buses, such as BRTs, corridors, and exclusive lanes. To achieve this, we will give priority to building the following corridors: Aricanduva, Radial Leste (sections 1, 2 and 3), Miguel Yunes, M'Boi Mirim, Celso Garcia, Itaim-São Mateus (Perimetral Leste), Norte-Sul and Perimetral Bandeirantes (Bandeirantes - Tancredo - Salim Farah Maluf), as well as others already planned in the Mobility Plan and Master Plan.
  2. Expanding free transit in São Paulo, gradually, while guaranteeing fiscal responsibility and an adequate fleet and quality transportation.
  3. Expansion of public policies for pedestrians and cyclists. We will make continuous investments in sidewalks and crosswalks through an innovative governance structure that will coordinate the actions of the various departments, including improvements to tree planting and street furniture. We will also expand, with planning and consultation, the cycling network, provide bike racks integrated with the transit system and expand the bike-sharing program.
  4. More Buses, More Comfort Plan. In order to tackle the problems of overcrowding and waiting times at bus stops, we will use all the tools provided for under the current contract, such as increasing control and supervision over the service and the companies' remuneration per journey made, as well as establishing maximum interval times for each line. We will also carry out an audit to make the terms of the contracts between the City and the operators more transparent, with the aim of increasing the availability of the fleet and improving the quality of the system. Reducing crowding on buses will also have the effect of combating sexual harassment on public transport.
  5. Road safety. We are going to implement a continuous program to reduce traffic deaths by improving road infrastructure, in conjunction with traffic education measures, as well as expanding the program of exclusive lanes for motorcycles.
  6. School transport closer to you. We will expand access to Free School Transportation, assessing the reduction of the minimum journey length (currently 1.5 km) between home and school, in order to reduce school drop-outs and make everyday life easier for mothers and fathers. From the outset, we will also set up a dialogue with school transport operators to facilitate access to credit for fleet renewal.

Environment

  1. Drainage plan to combat the climate crisis. Updating the Drainage Master Plan, combining public works that use conventional retention structures with green infrastructure, prioritizing permeable areas such as linear parks, infiltration plazas, rain gardens and micro-reservoirs. In addition, we will draw up a new Municipal Risk Reduction Plan (PMRR) and create Resource Centers for Civil Protection and Defense, reorganizing the City's structure for permanent risk and disaster management with preventive policies and preparation for climate emergencies.
  2. Creating Green Corridors. We will plant trees along roads and in public areas, especially in urban heat islands, using technology to monitor the health of the trees and to make pruning and management services more efficient. Similarly, we will create new parks in the city, aimed at preservation and leisure.
  3. Transforming São Paulo into the Capital of the Energy Transition. We are going to invest in renewing the buses and vehicles used by the City, encouraging clean and renewable fuels, with the goal of making 50% of the bus fleet electric or hybrid. We will also encourage the application of Law 15.997 to promote the policy of incentivizing the use of electric or hydrogen-powered cars.
  4. Universalizing sorted waste collection. We will take waste sorting to all 96 districts of the municipality, expanding partnerships with cooperatives and recycling collectors, and making new sorting centers possible. We will also encourage the composting of organic waste, both household waste and waste from garden trimmings and street markets, with new composting yards. To advance this policy, we will institute an environmental education program in all municipal schools, with lessons and practice in waste separation.
  5. Municipal integrated management system for the preservation and restoration of natural springs. We will promote the coordination of public agents and civil society, strengthening the Environmental Metropolitan Civil Guard and the inspection of the Subprefectures in natural spring areas and allocating more resources to the Natural Springs Program, with the aim of guaranteeing water security, the quality of springs, the environmental adaptation of existing settlements and the compatibility of sustainable uses.

Housing

  1. Living Periphery Program for urbanization and housing improvement. We will implement integrated urbanization of the city's favelas, through: (i) improvements aimed at small renovations and upgrades in precarious housing, as a way of combating the deficit in qualitative housing in the city, benefiting 100,000 families; and (ii) drawing up local urban plans that will define the priorities for urbanization intervention - sanitation, road works, paving, soil containment and stabilization, and environmental recovery - in addition to building urban infrastructure and public facilities in the communities.
  2. Implementing the Social Rental Service. We will provide new housing by retrofitting abandoned public buildings for social rentals and social housing services, following the model already adopted in major global metropolises.
  3. Comprehensive land regularization program. We will benefit at least 250,000 families through land regularization programs, guaranteeing ownership and property titles in the urban periphery, integrated with urbanization and housing improvement initiatives.
  4. Building 50,000 social housing units. We will continue to acquire contracted units and build new housing, through our own municipal program and also by strengthening the partnership with the My House, My Life program. We will also promote joint action with entities and cooperatives for housing construction, encouraging direct project and construction management and the procurement of Technical Assistance for Social Housing.

People Living on the Streets

  1. Dignified shelter. Upgrading shelters through renovations; this includes increasing the number of bathrooms, solving structural safety problems and improving sanitary and living conditions. Guaranteeing respect for residents' rights, with the implementation of a management council for each facility that includes the participation of residents and representatives of civil society. We will ensure that all facilities have space for pets and carts used for recycling. In addition, we will expand the teams of Street Clinics and Mobile Dental Units, which serve as the first contact for the re-socialization of people on the streets.
  2. Guaranteeing room for all. We will expand the specialized care programs for homeless people, focusing on the principle of Housing First. This means strengthening social housing services, social hotels, hostels and maintaining existing programs. No person will be left behind: everyone will receive a dignified shelter and social assistance.
  3. Employment program for those on the streets. The program will be structured in two modules: technical training and employment, with social and psychological support. The City will provide training through training centers for construction, janitorial work and other areas. Hiring can be done by the government, through the Operation Work Program and work groups, or on public works contracts, working in partnership with the construction sector.
  4. Inclusion of homeless people in housing programs. We are going to register all the people and families living on the streets, to include them in the municipal housing program and in the My House, My Life projects, ensuring permanent housing in the medium term.

Cracolândia

  1. An Integrated Office for Cracolândia. From the first day in government, we will create an office - linked directly to the Mayor and involving all the Secretariats working in Cracolândia (Urban Security, Health, Social Assistance and Human Rights) - to monitor the situation in real time and guide action in the area as a policy of the City.
  2. Creating Mobile Psychosocial Care Centers for Alcohol and Drugs (CAPS-AD). We will set up mobile units of the CAPS-AD in the region, using the street clinic model. The aim is to bring mental health professionals to people, in an integrated way with the work of social assistance, guaranteeing a full range of care for all addicts. The re-establishment of family ties will be encouraged, including families in the care provided by mental health and social assistance professionals.
  3. Creating a special urban security unit dedicated to the region formed by the neighborhoods of Luz, Campos Elíseos and Santa Efigênia. The focus will be on security and social welfare, using an integrated approach with health, social assistance and human rights services, operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the area. This unit will work together with the state security forces, strengthening the fight against drug trafficking and unregulated junkyards in the region.
  4. Generating jobs and income. Implement a social rehabilitation and job creation program for former drug addicts undergoing treatment at the Mobile CAPS, promoting training and seeking partnerships with companies and businesses in the region. Also promote a training policy aimed at recycling collectors and cultural and artistic work in the area.
  5. Integrating housing shelters and social care. We will make the shelter network available and also offer a range of health and care services for people undergoing treatment in the Mobile CAPS.

Restoring the City Centre

  1. Street cleaning blitz. We will intensify the City’s street cleaning, maintenance of public spaces, lighting, benches and the inclusion of green spaces, promoting the enhancement of the urban environment in high-traffic areas in the city center. This initiative to improve public spaces in the center will be complemented by the policy of dignified shelter for the homeless population, already mentioned in this programme.
  2. New City Center Program. Following the experience of restructuring historic centers in various global cities, we will strengthen the area's potential based on the creative economy and entertainment, setting up a tourist, gastronomic and cultural circuit, drawing on the characteristics and potential of each area of the historic center. The City will stimulate and induce development focused on these areas, with dialogue and the participation of civil society and the entrepreneurs who already operate in the region.
  3. Renovating abandoned real estate. We will invest in programs to retrofit abandoned public buildings in the city center, to change the face of currently degraded areas, tackling the problems of segregation. To do this, we will have two options for the renovated buildings: (i) My First Office Program, with renovated commercial rooms so that young graduates can set up their offices and professional activities; (ii) Social Housing Service, through a social rental program.
  4. Restoration of shopping streets. We will offer incentives and easier credit lines to retailers wishing to reopen closed stores in the city center and we will create, in partnership with the Ministry of Tourism, a shopping circuit to promote commercial tourism in these streets, with special attention to the largest popular shopping circuit in Latin America, made up of the Brás / Bom Retiro / Rua 25 de Março / Rua Santa Ifigênia areas. We will also take up the successful experiences of the City's partnerships with local trade associations for the urban redevelopment of the main shopping streets in all parts of the city.

Labour and Economic Development

  1. Support centers for app workers. We will create support centers for app workers in all areas of the city. These support centers will have toilets, pantries equipped to heat lunch boxes, water, coffee, rest areas and cell phone charging points. The site will also have assistance points for workers, such as legal advice, administrative and financial advice and guidance on microcredit.
  2. Strengthen the solidarity and cooperative economy. We will enact the Paul Singer Municipal Law, implementing a regulatory framework for the solidarity economy in the city. This will include a municipal public procurement policy for the urban popular economy and a policy of “platform cooperativism”, reformulating current policies (such as SPCoopera) to provide greater capacity for assistance in business formulation and access to distribution channels for urban popular economy businesses, establishing instruments to enable forms of organization via platforms and e-commerce.
  3. Municipal Credit Agency. We will create a municipal credit policy to democratize access to credit lines for the urban popular economy and the city's small and medium-sized entrepreneurs. The goal is to make it possible for the sector that generates the most jobs in São Paulo to be stimulated by the City, in partnership with institutions such as SEBRAE and BNDES.
  4. Economic Innovation Plan. We will articulate municipal incentives and partnerships with universities to promote activities in the economic and industrial complex, through technology hubs. We will also create municipal policies to attract more sophisticated industrial services (such as design, information technology and industrial data processing), with the aim of adapting São Paulo's economy to the new configurations of production.
  5. Plan to Regularize Informal Work. We will recreate the Joint Commission between street vendors, traders and the City to ensure that informal trade is regulated in a way that preserves pedestrian spaces and the interests of workers and traders.
  6. Municipal tourism plan. We propose strengthening the Municipal Tourism Council, transforming it into a proactive body with representatives from all areas of tourism. The priority will be to draw up a new Municipal Tourism Plan, incorporating public policies and seeking partnerships with the Ministry of Tourism. We will create actions to strengthen the various segments of São Paulo's tourist industry: business, recreation and culture, mega-events and gastronomy. At the same time, we will implement a policy of decentralizing tourism, creating local routes in different regions of the city, such as ecological tourism in the areas with reservoirs.

Social Assistance and Combating Hunger

  1. Consolidate the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS) in the city, as an institutional space for the defense of citizens' rights and social protection, guaranteeing its decentralized, regional and participatory operation.
  2. Guarantee Social Assistance Service Centers in all districts and expand Specialized Social Assistance Service Centers. We are going to increase the number of Social Assistance Service Centers to cover all 96 districts of São Paulo and expand the supply of Specialized Social Assistance Service Centers, which are responsible for providing special attention to people vulnerable to violence, particularly domestic violence.
  3. Expand the Social Assistance budget. We are going to ensure that the municipality's revenues are linked to the Social Assistance Policy, taking into account the indicators of social deprivation and formulating complementary income transfer policies, with the reform of the former Minimum Income Program. This proposal will be in line with the future implementation of the Citizens' Basic Income, provided for in Federal Law 10.835/2004, and Federal Law 14.601/2023, of the Bolsa Família Program.
  4. Improve the contracting and management of services by civil society organizations. We will combine the direct provision of social services alongside partnerships with organizations, acting transparently in the contracting, monitoring and supervision of services, to guarantee basic and special forms of protection, according to the demand of the districts and the insertion of the Civil Society Organization (CSO) in the territory.
  5. Eradicating hunger in São Paulo. We are going to open new Solidarity Kitchens and People's Restaurants and expand the People's Grocery Stores in all the districts where hunger is prevalent. This action will be accompanied by a survey of the city's hunger map.
  6. Urban garden program. We will encourage the creation of urban and peri-urban gardens, adding agro-ecological technical assistance and encouraging the worker organization in associations and cooperatives.
  7. Guaranteeing healthy food. We will increase healthy food in school meals and in all municipal services, such as hospitals and centers for children and adolescents. We will also stimulate agroecological and organic production by small family farms in the city's rural areas, guaranteeing public purchases and supplies for municipal facilities and the anti-hunger network.

Animal Defence and Protection

  1. Municipal Animal Protection policy. We will create public policies aimed at defending animals, with the participation of civil society, instituting regional actions in categories such as dogs and cats, animal trafficking, management and conservation of wild animals in parks and Environmental Preservation Areas. We will also boost actions to control the population of dogs and cats, through a municipal neutering policy.
  2. Increased monitoring of animal trafficking and mistreatment. Implement technical criteria and operational rigor to intensify the monitoring of animal trafficking and animal cruelty in the city.
  3. New veterinary hospitals and tagging system. We will create a tagging system for all animals, from pets to animals that are bred for sale, with a complete record of origin, ensuring that they are raised in decent conditions. In addition, we will implement new public veterinary hospitals to provide accessible, quality care, ensuring animal health and welfare in the city.

Culture

  1. Gradually increase the City’s culture budget to 3%. We are going to expand the management capacity of the City's Department of Culture and gradually allocate more resources to artistic support programs, projects and contracts. We will also revitalize and expand cultural facilities and preserve memories, museums, libraries and historical heritage.
  2. Decentralization of investments and cultural facilities in the urban peripheries. In the logic of reducing distances and inequalities, we will expand the number of facilities such as cultural centers, Casas de Cultura, theaters and cinemas in the peripheral regions of the city. In the same vein, the cultural budget increase will be accompanied by an expansion in the proportion allocated to fostering and supporting culture in the urban peripheries.
  3. Promotion and integration of culture. We will promote Cultura Viva (a policy of support for traditional cultures), the Popular Economy of Culture (encouraging fairs, festivals and support for economic partnerships), the Municipal Circuit of Culture (integration and dissemination of all the city's cultural initiatives and their schedule) and the city's policy for books and reading.
  4. Strengthening cultural street events. We will develop a public policy to strengthen São Paulo's major street cultural events, such as Carnival and Virada Cultural, in permanent dialogue with the street carnival parade groups, the city's cultural collectives and its samba schools.

Sport and Recreation

  1. Municipal Sports and Recreation System. We will create a system that connects all the facilities of the Sports Department with those of other related departments, linking high-performance sport, educational sport and recreational practices to broader urban well-being programs.
  2. Sports Hubs in the urban peripheries. We will create an economic development program for sports groups, entities and collectives that develop activities in their communities, to ensure access to resources and institutional support, using the federal Points of Culture program as a benchmark.
  3. São Paulo circuit of sports and leisure activities. We will offer a broad and diverse sports calendar, with activities and competitions that include the greatest number of sports and that take place throughout the year, with the aim of stimulating the practice of sports.
  4. Revitalizing municipal sports infrastructure. We will upgrade sports facilities, encouraging urban sports activities such as skate parks and recreational football pitches.

People with Disabilities

  1. Universal accessibility program. We will increase accessibility for all people, especially people with disabilities and reduced mobility, by investing in the physical environment and inclusive architectural design, providing assistive technology (devices, materials, computers, equipment, furniture) for access to communication and information through languages, expressions and codes, with the aim of eliminating any barrier that prevents people with disabilities from accessing and operating independently in public facilities.
  2. Inclusive Education Plan for students with disabilities and autism. We will improve support services in special education in schools, expanding and valuing the work of Educational Life Assistants, including sign language interpreters and teaching assistants, as well as establishing the Specialized Accompanying Support Service for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Special educational assistance will also be guaranteed.
  3. Inclusion in the job market. Transformation of the Work and Entrepreneurship Support Center into a proactive service for the inclusion of people with disabilities in the job market, including training its staff and advising companies against discriminatory practices.
  4. Create new Municipal Centers for People on the autism spectrum. We will promote the integration of the health network and interdisciplinary care work for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their families in the city.
  5. Services for deaf and blind people. We will create a communication service for people who are deafblind at the Sign Language Support Center and expand the scope of its services.
  6. Join the New Living Without Limits Plan. We will adopt the National Unified Assessment System, in line with the biopsychosocial model, to combat ableism and guarantee the rights of people with disabilities.

From Early Childhood to Adolescence

  1. Encouraging breastfeeding. We will create incentives for breastfeeding through different channels, such as training community health workers in breastfeeding, ensuring that public schools that serve nurseries have structure and management capacity, creating mobile breastmilk collection units, sending the milk to existing breast milk banks, creating breastfeeding support rooms in public facilities and creating campaigns to encourage private companies to set up breastfeeding support rooms.
  2. Expanding areas for free play. We will expand spaces and areas for play, leisure, sports and culture to ensure that all children and young people have the rights to family, community life, and the right to the city.
  3. Commitment to the National Policy for Early Childhood. We will adopt the Integrated National Policy for Early Childhood, guaranteeing the evaluation and monitoring of the implementation of the Integrated Protocols for Early Childhood Care and promoting a broad program to raise awareness and encourage companies based in the city to extend maternity leave to 180 days and paternity leave to 30 days.
  4. Strengthening the Municipal Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents and the Guardianship Councils. We will implement measures to improve the Council’s structure and service, update legislation, and expand the participation of civil society in the council.

Policies for People Over 60

  1. Expanding the existing protection network for people over 60. We will increase the number of Day Centers, Social Centers, Intergenerational Social Centers and Long Stay Institutions for the Elderly, guaranteeing coverage in areas of the city where there is currently a lack of vacancies.
  2. Creating neighborhood centers for people over 60. We will create a new facility for caring for the elderly, with intergenerational care teams and a specialized care team, which will operate in partnership with civil society organizations already working in the sector. In this space, the elderly population will have access to care, tele-health care, education, recreational and cultural services.
  3. Housing policy for the elderly. We will update the registry of elderly people in vulnerable situations and guarantee the housing reserve provided for by law in COHAB and My House, My Life developments in the city. We're also going to build new Elderly Village units in areas with the greatest demand.
  4. Strengthen the elderly health care network. We will guarantee Elderly Companion Program teams in all neighborhoods and increase the number of Elderly Health Support Units, offering qualified care to people with dementia and their families. We will also encourage an effective policy for reducing falls and rehabilitation, provide beds for clinical care and create a protection network for elderly victims of intra-family violence.

Policies for Women

  1. Gender parity in São Paulo’s Municipal Departments. For the first time in the city's history, half of the Departments will be led by women, guaranteeing the active participation of women in the formulation of the municipality's public policies.
  2. Creating Care Centers. Spaces that promote comprehensive care for mothers and their children, from prenatal care to the baby's first year of life, by a specialized team, focusing on the following areas: prenatal care, safe and dignified childbirth, breastmilk collection, childcare, postpartum care and maternal mental health. A neighborhood hub for families and a space for access to women's rights.
  3. Caring for caregivers. We will create a support service for caregivers, ensuring public policies for social and psychological care, with guarantees of protection for women who are caregivers and supports of the elderly, children and people with disabilities at home.
  4. Zero tolerance for violence against women. We will expand and strengthen services for women victims of violence, create campaigns to publicize the Specialized Care Network and increase access to rental assistance for women in violent situations, promoting inter-departmental coordination that prioritizes these women in housing, work and income programs. This program will guide the work of the Metropolitan Civil Guard's Maria da Penha Guardian Patrol.
  5. Promoting comprehensive women's health. We will strengthen public policies aimed at women's health, with a focus on prevention, early diagnosis and effective treatment of conditions specific to women's health.

Antiracist SP

  1. Re-establishing the Department for the Promotion of Racial Equality, and establishing accountability in the City's central structure and Subprefectures to ensure the reach and integration of policies to combat racism in the city. From the Department, we will also consolidate instruments for the enhancement of anti-racist culture and memory.
  2. Anti-racist education in city schools. We will actually implement Law 10.639/2003 in the city, with the training of managers and education professionals focused on the issue and the inclusion of combating racism in the school curriculum.
  3. Municipal Compact to Combat Violence against Black Youth. A plan to combat institutional and structural violence against Black youth through programs for culture, recreation, sports, vocational training and entrepreneurship, with a focus on the peripheral neighborhoods, as well as monitoring and preventing human rights violations.

Human Rights

  1. Human Rights Education. We will implement an ongoing training policy for municipal civil servants, involving universities and civil society organizations, as well as promoting the training of community leaders, Guardianship Councils, cultural collectives and professionals from the security, health and protection networks to work in the defense and promotion of human rights in the territories. To this end, we will revise and implement the Municipal Human Rights Education Plan. (Translator’s note: Guardianship Councils are municipal bodies charged with ensuring compliance with the rights of children and minors.)
  2. Eradicating slave and child labor in São Paulo. We will strengthen the prevention of child labor, slave labor and human trafficking, and we will support victims through providing shelter, education, employment and social reintegration. We will pay special attention to the most vulnerable populations and groups, such as young people, migrants and people with disabilities, among others.
  3. Guaranteeing the right to memory and truth. We will draft a Municipal Plan for Memory and Truth in the city, with initiatives such as the Municipal Certification of Memory and Truth in Human Rights for public and private entities and civil society organizations, the implementation of the recommendations of the Municipal Truth Commission and the creation of the Streets of Memory Program, to rename places that pay homage to people who violated human rights, as well as adding signage to places of memory of repression as well as creating new memorials and monuments.
  4. Thousand Peoples Program for migrants and refugees. We will strengthen the Reception Center for Migrants as a social assistance service for migrants, refugees and stateless persons, offering individual and family services and reclassifying services according to their different needs. We will create the Migrant Cultural Center, seeking to value cultural diversity and establish community spaces to strengthen ties. We will guarantee and expand protection for refugees and migrants by promoting multiculturalism, integration of migrants, and access to social services.

Policies for LGBT+ People

  1. Establish the Network to Combat LGBTphobic Violence and Discrimination. We will combat violence and discrimination effectively within the municipal administration, raising awareness among civil servants, especially in the areas of health and urban security.
  2. Expanding programs for LGBT+ people. We will expand the Trans Citizens Program, to guarantee education and employability for trans people, and we will create new units of the LGBT+ Citizens Centers, strengthening support for the community and guaranteeing access to essential services for a dignified life.
  3. Implementation of the Comprehensive Health Plan for LGBT+ People. Improving health care and treatment for the LGBT+ community, tackling discrimination and promoting inclusive approaches.

Decentralization and Social Participation

  1. Restoring the role of the Subprefectures. We will return to the concept of the Subprefectures in their entirety, based on the law that created them, decentralizing, articulating and integrating all the policies and services in the neighborhoods with local participation. The Subprefectures will once again be the City's gateway to its neighborhoods.
  2. Restoring the regional management and planning capacity of the Subprefectures, deepening the decentralization of public services by district, organizing the construction of facilities by neighborhood and developing public services hubs, in line with the urbanist project of guaranteeing everything people need close to home.
  3. Implement the Regional Plans of the Subprefectures. Based on social participation, the potential of each neighborhood and the map of inequalities, we will create a network of public facilities in urban areas, prioritizing peripheral neighborhoods, to promote culture, education, sports and recreation, and guaranteeing access to municipal services for the city’s most vulnerable populations.
  4. Participative Governing 5.0. We will revive participatory budgeting in the city, so that the residents of each region can influence the City's investment priorities. To this end, as well as maintaining and enhancing traditional forms of face-to-face participation, we are going to implement innovative experiences of digital participation and decision making

Administration, Transparency, and Combating Corruption

  1. Digital government and bureaucracy reduction. We will offer public services both online and in person, promoting inclusion and digital literacy. This will require expanding and improving the quality of public Wi-Fi in the city and public services that already promote digital literacy, such as Descomplica SP. In addition, we're going to integrate all municipal services into a single app to make it easier for people to access them.
  2. Strengthen the Public Services Regulatory Agency (SP Regula) in the supervision of public service concessions, providing human and material resources to ensure effective oversight. This will ensure transparency and efficiency in the administration of public resources, guaranteeing that contracts are fulfilled in accordance with the established rules and that the public interest is protected.
  3. Fighting corruption and strengthening internal oversight, through the Municipal Council for Transparency and Social Control and ensuring full autonomy for the Comptroller's Office.
  4. Guaranteeing public service exams. We will hire those who have already passed the civil service exams in all areas, filling the City’s vacant positions. In addition, we will facilitate the process of staff transfer, guaranteeing civil servants the right to mobility and position change.
  5. Repealing the 14% worker pension deduction and promoting the value of civil servants. We will guarantee the right to collective bargaining for all municipal employees and their representatives, respecting union autonomy and ensuring the functioning of the Permanent Negotiating System. We will implement a new policy to increase salaries and compensate for inflation losses, as well as repealing the 14% deduction of retirement pensions. We will officially recognize the professional status of those hired under Law 9160/1980, promoting pay rises and recognition of status, with due equivalence and fairness.
  6. Promoting a Policy for Workers' Health, with investment in care at the City Servants' Hospital. We will also encourage measures to combat bullying and sexual harassment against municipal employees.
  7. Collecting outstanding debt. We are going to implement an effective active debt recovery program, using technology to identify and collect large debtors, as well as offering conditions for settling outstanding debts.

Urban Planning and Development

  1. Prioritizing the City for People concept. We will expand the democratization of road space and the rehabilitation of public space, expanding the Open Streets program, encouraging active façades and adopting urban measures to increase safety in public space, such as lighting and surveillance cameras.
  2. Innovating in groundskeeping services. We will add new technology to mowing, tree pruning, weeding and manhole cleaning services, making processes more efficient and cutting costs. We will also implement a permanent and preventive policy for cleaning streams and pools.
  3. Implementing a permanent resurfacing program for public roads. We will promote the decentralization of pothole patching so that the Subprefecture can have the authority to carry out this work with efficiency and agility, at all times, so that the concern with resurfacing is not restricted to occasional initiatives during election periods.

Indigenous Peoples

  1. We will establish the Indigenous Municipal Council, to monitor and supervise land demarcations, ensure specific seats for Indigenous representatives on municipal councils and institute a municipal policy for environmental, cultural and social strengthening of Indigenous territories. This council will also be responsible for formulating programs to support Indigenous cultural production, combating prejudice and promoting cultural diversity.
  2. Expanding access to health care in São Paulo's Indigenous territories. We will guarantee primary and specialized care in the city's Indigenous territories that still don't have it.

International

  1. Reclaiming São Paulo's global leadership. We will reclaim our city's place in the world, leading international cooperation projects that include climate change mitigation and adaptation, urban innovation, social justice and the defense of democracy. We will bring São Paulo into line with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda and, by doing so, attract international funding that fosters projects for fair and sustainable development.
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Authors
Guilherme Boulos
Published
24.10.2024
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