In the following weeks, the IBGE´s State Unit in Roraima will carry out a new Census Planning and Monitoring Meeting (Repac) in Boa Vista, capital of the state, involving managers and leaders of the IBGE and of the municipal administration.

As a result of this meeting, some details about the planning of the Census in Boa Vista are already being discussed with municipal leaders, like granting data collection stations for enumerators to work.

This subject was discussed in late January in the City Hall of Boa Vista between an IBGE team and the vice-mayor, Cássio Murilo Gomes, who was accompanied by the head of the office, Paulo Roberto Bragato.

At the time, the vice-mayor raised awareness of the IBGE operation and guaranteed to grant appropriate places with infrastructure to install data collection stations.

Representing the UE-RR, Ângela Patrícia Lima, operational coordinator of the Census in Roraima, and Thiago Bandeira, sub-area census coordinator, participated in the meeting.

Access to indigenous locations

Still in January, a team of the UE-RR, led by Nagib Lima, technical coordinator of the Census in Roraima, had already met technicians, nurses and managers of the Indigenous Special Sanitary District (DSEI Yanomami).

“It was a meeting in which we studied and analyzed the best relation with the indigenous, the impact of the presence of an institution of the federal administration in the region and mapped the challenges that we will face to access such localities,” noted Lima.

“There are places that are only accessible by small-sized planes, then a helicopter and walk a trail in the wood. They are far communities. The Yanomami area is quite large,” completed him.

Health barriers, ways of approaching each community, use of interpreters and guides and authorizations required to access these communities were other subjects discussed.

“We will meet with Funai (National Indian Foundation) and other offices to outline the ideal plan to access such indigenous communities by enumerators,” concluded Lima.