Social Diagnosis Barão de Cocais (MG)

The project aimed to carry out a Social Diagnosis with the population of the communities of Socorro, Piteira, Tabuleiro, and Vila do Gongo, which comprise the HRZ – High Rescue Zone in the municipality of Barão de Cocais in Minas Gerais that were evacuated due to the activation of the safety siren of the Gongo Soco dam in 2019.

The activities included the mapping and characterization of the bonds and feelings that the evacuated population has with the territory and the forecasting of their expectations regarding the future.

The work was carried out through deep and sensitive listening with the communities, generating real empiric and qualitative data, aiming to guide and conduct a more assertive social investment work, based on reading parameters of the territory and that also contemplate nuances of this reality by social group, from the unique perspective of the community.

To this end, 12 focus groups and 21 qualitative interviews were conducted thus using direct listening in a sample of approximately 1/3 of the affected population, where formal community leaders, informal opinion leaders, residents, and besiegers affected were heard.