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Get to know the Fundo de Repartição de Benefícios do Médio Juruá

By Raqueline Nery

The Fundo de Repartição de Benefícios do Médio Juruá (FRBMJ)  has been active in the Médio Juruá region since 2013 indirectly through financial donations via Social and Environmental Projects, implemented by institutions in the region, and only in 2017 was formally created in accordance with the Law of Biodiversity, the law 13.123 of May 20, 2015, based on the commercial relationship between the company Natura and Community-Based Organizations of the Médio Juruá. In this collective arrangement, all community organizations access FRBMJ resources.

The FRBMJ steering committee is formed by five organizations, three of which are community-based: Associação dos Produtores Rurais de Carauari (ASPROC), Associação dos Moradores Agroextrativista de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Uacari (AMARU) e Cooperativa Mista de Desenvolvimento Sustentável e Economia Solidária do Médio Juruá (CODAEMJ) in addition to Natura and ICMBio, and is supported by the fund’s executive secretariat. The FRBMJ aims to finance projects with a socio-environmental, community, organizational, productive focus and other activities that aim the sustainable development in the RDS Uacari, RESEX do Médio Juruá, Terra Índigena Deni and in the surrounding areas, with projects implemented by the proposing organizations covered in the notices.


Raqueline Nery is 33 years old and has been an Environmental Manager for nine years, graduated in the Universidade do Estado do Amazonas (UEA), she has been working in social movements since 2009, when she joined the Conselho Nacional dos Seringueiros (CNS) as a volunteer, and worked in community-based organizations, such as : Associação dos Produtores Rurais de Carauari (ASPROC); Associação dos Moradores Agroextrativistas da RDS Uacari (AMARU); Associação das Mulheres Agroextrativistas do Médio Juruá (ASMAMJ); Cooperativa Mista de Desenvolvimento Sustentável e Economia Solidária da Resex do Médio Juruá (CODAEMJ) and currently works as an Executive Analyst for the Fundo de Repartição de Benefícios do  Médio Juruá (FRBMJ)

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