ABSTRACT
Since 2010, the public policy called the UPP Social Program has been implemented in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro City that have been previously contemplated with Pacification Police Units (UPPs). The UPP Social Program is under the responsibility of the Instituto Pereira Passos (IPP Rio), a strategic planning unit of the Prefecture of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro. This chapter discusses the attempt by the government to tackle an institutional context of an established dispersion and fragmentation of social policies and urban services offered by a multiplicity of different actors in the favelas. It explores the introduction of the concept and management model of the UPP Social Program, which works twofold: on the one hand, through an active and organized participative process in raising demands of social and urban services by communities in the favelas; and, on the other hand, through a collective policy integration of social actions and urban policies, either already implemented or new ones to be initiated, by different agencies and levels of government, business associations and civil society organizations in those territories. At the end, some lessons and challenges are presented, based on the first phase of implementation of the UPP Social Program in 18 favelas till December 2011.
