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People and communities
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CHALLENGES
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To encourage greater participation of communities in the decision making process
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To identify the affected population
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To extend the epidemiological and toxicological studies to the entire Doce river valley
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To align actions with public policies
To efficiently communicate with all society
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To compensate all populations affected
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To address mental health issues resulting from stress related causes
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To jointly build an action plan with indigenous communities
The challenges presented in this chapter reflect the perception of Renova Foundation’s management team in March 2017 about the priority issues to be addressed in our remediation actions. After liaising with the affected population and program managers, we selected the topics in this theme which currently present the greatest challenges or progress. They do not embrace all the themes we are working on, but can be seen as a sample of the most critical topics raised during our first eight months of operations, from August 2016 to March 2017.