Christian Aid Brazil: three decades working with social movements - An exit learning review

After the emergency, Christian Aid’s continued support to MAB in the region helped ensure that the affected communities were able to participate in discussions around the emergency response, and to negotiate for compensation from Vale, the Brazilian multinational corporation that owned the dam. [...] Taking action to protect the Amazon ‘We are the Amazon’ was a global Amazon solidarity action engaging churches, councils and faith-based organisations, which made commitments for the protection of the Amazon and its inhabitants, ahead of the Amazon Synod of the Catholic Church, which met in October 2019.14 The Institute for Socioeconomic Studies (INESC) in Brazil and the Center of Studies for Lab. [...] A joint letter was read in the official space of the Synod, in the San Pedro Square in the Vatican, stating the importance of the Amazon for the planet. [...] provided stability and helped them grow: However, changing attitudes to Brazil’s middle- income status and robust civil society, together with We trained specialised staff throughout the years the availability of public funds from the progressive thanks to the stability that Christian Aid provided government of the early 2000s, signalled a change in through institutional strengthening and a long-. [...] representative) Christian Aid partners expressed worries about the Recover strategies to protect indigenous rights, future, with some expressing a desire for Christian environmental rights in the Amazon, and the Aid to remain in the region as part of other Amazon’s capacity as an energy producer.