This Decree, consisting of 8 articles, creates the National Plan for the Strengthening the National Plan for Strengthening Forest Harvesting and River Bank Communities (Planafe). This Plan has the purpose to: integrate and adapt public policies aimed at improving the quality of life and the conservation of the environment of harvesting and river bank communities; and to support the National Policy for the Sustainable Development of Traditional Peoples and Traditional Communities (PNPCT), created by Decree No. 6.040 of 7 February 2007. Planafe will observe the principles and guidelines regarding development, harvest, river bank communities, sustainable development and the environmentally balanced exploitation of socio-biodiversity resources. Planafe objectives are: integrate, adapt, articulate and propose actions to access health policies, education, infrastructure, promotion of sustainable production, income generation, access to territories and natural resources, and environmental and territorial management in areas of traditional use and occupation by harvesting and river bank communities; ensure the basic rights of these communities, with a view to overcoming poverty; promote social participation in the planning, monitoring and evaluation of Planafe; encourage the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity by harvesting and river bank communities; enable social and productive inclusion of these communities, especially women and youth; increase productivity, with a view to increasing the income of the harvesting and river bank families; develop mechanisms to support the structuring of socio-biodiversity product chains; develop incentives to pay for environmental and ecosystem services provided by these communities; encourage the land regularization of social interest of the territorial spaces occupied by harvesting and river bank communities; and seek sources of financing from international organizations that will allow the increase of Planafe's actions.
Brasil · 2018-04-05