Presented by the Instituto Brasileiro de Administração Municipal - ibam, the paper Estudo sobre inovações públicas locais em projetos de urbanização de assentamentos informais, localizados nas cidades do Rio de Janeiro e Medellín - Study of local public innovations in urbanization projects for informal settlements, located in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Medellín, by Marlene Fernandes, Carlos Alberto Arruda e Helena Rosa dos Santos Galiza, aims to identify the local conditions which favored the emergence of public innovations in urbanization projects for informal settlements, implemented in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Medellín.

The aim of the Instituto Brasileiro de Administração Municipal - IBAM is to design and program a knowledge management system for innovation in local public management in Latin America, in order to identify solutions to problems relating to widespread housing deficits, which affect the living conditions of low-income populations.