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The city is innovative and works to be a good home
for its native people today and tomorrow. Thus,
we have adopted management planning tools to
achieve goals. We have adopted Strategic Planning
as a way to stablish priority actions pragmatically,
and measure results every four years. In 2017, we
launched Salvador 360 program for economic
development and job creation. In April of that same
year, the city was included in the 100 Resilient
Cities Program led by the Rockefeller Foundation,
and we started building the Resilience Strategy. In
collaboration with other 100RC cities, we were able
to grasp the value of resilience and how to translate
this view onto the Municipality’s public policies,
initiatives and actions.

The supported provided by the 100 Resilient Cities
Program – 100RC was crucial for the development
of a comprehensive and contemporary tool to
promote an integrated and long-term public
policy that will be able to create social, economic
and urbanistic benefits in a cross-cutting manner.
This policy will guide important decisions in the
Antonio Carlos Peixoto de Magalhães Neto decades to come. The suggested initiatives should
be implemented in the short, medium and long
Mayor of Salvador
term, but all bring multiple impacts with future and
perennial reach, ensuring the city benefits from the
resilience dividends.

With the Resilience Strategy, Salvador leads on
as a global city. We have shown our commitment
to a modern agenda of sustainable development
Salvador’s biggest treasure is its people who, and resilience with the creation of a Sustainability,
throughout the centuries, have built an unique Innovation and Resilience Secretariat and, by
culture and an exuberant historical heritage. The municipal law, the Resilience Municipal Council,
first federal capital of Brazil is also the capital of which is enriched by the participation of the civil
multiple identities. Salvador was initially populated society, academia and the public and private
by a mix of native Brazilian, African and Portuguese sectors.
ethnicity, and has welcomed many other people.
Diversity has always been one of the highlights of The Resilient Salvador we want is a city that values
this city, which has the gift of being able to reinvent its social, cultural and natural heritage. Open to the
itself and innovate. Our creativity is featured in sea and to the world, it takes on a main role in Brazil
literature, music, dance and our Carnaval. It is also and in the international community. As diversity
inherent to the people of Salvador as entrepreneurs capital, it takes pride in its multiple identities and
and to their ingenuity in the innovative solutions for uses its talent and creativity to drive sustainable
the services offered by the city, which today stands development and technological innovation while
as an important tourist destination. promoting social inclusion and citizen integration

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