RCE Rio de Janeiro

Date of RCE Acknowledgement:
December, 2011

Description of RCE and Geographic Region:
Rio de Janeiro is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil and is located in the southeast region of the country. Its total area is around 43,7 thousand km², which is slightly bigger than Denmark. With 92 municipalities. Rio de Janeiro has about 17 million inhabitants (IBGE, 2018) and its capital city is Rio de Janeiro. The state is the second economy in the country.

Photo cr: Clarisse Lima

Organisation Hosting RCE Secretariat:
Rede Tecnologia (RedeTec) (NGO)

Goals and Objective:
The main goals and objectives of the RCE are based on the ‘Map for the Development of Rio de Janeiro’, a program for sustainable development in the State built in 2006 by the Federation of Industries of Rio de Janeiro. They consider the needs concerning effective supply of education aimed at sustainable development in the following main areas:
Infrastructure and logistics
Financing
Safety and combating criminality
Education and health
Efficient public management
Entrepreneurial and political leadership
Institutional and regulatory environments

Key Partners:
Name of organisation: Faculdade Cesgranrio
Role: Project Manager
Contact name: Clarisse Lima
Contact email: clarisselima@cesgranrio.org.br