CONCEPT NOTE GREEN ROOFING FOR RASHIDIEH (EHS 2018-2019)

Activities: - Green Roof project on 100 EARLY ACTIONdemonstration PROJE houses CT - Awareness raising campaign for importance of green roofs - School green roof project in 2 schools including horticultural inputs, water saving devices, solar pump, and panels, and water storage tanks. - UNRWA staff and camp leaders environmental awareness, waste management system, carbon footprint, and energy needs to develop training of trainers capacity. - Production of guidance materials, GREEN ACTION factsheets and posters, manual for green roofs in Rashidieh FOR RASHIDIEH - Study tour to Green Roofs in Beirut or other areas in - Coastal zone on shore protection of INTRODUCTION The Tyre-Rashidieh camp 2018 Environmental Health dunes and upper shore area, including Strategy provides a clear action plan for eco-action in the 12 Palestinian refugee waste project camps in Lebanon. Of the 227 recommended actions within the EHS, greening space, and linked Methodology: environmental education have been identified as providing significant opportunity - Practical action demo project activities for lower-cost, high impact, and high upscaling potential (over 2000 roofs - Local Self- Help Delivery by key potential). selected groups within Rashidieh In order to give momentum to the recommendations and subsequent studies - Preparation of subcontract for project (BMGM and UPM 2018) UNRWA is proposing the following early action project. execution support provided by LOCAl NGO and local environmental expert - Study tours (Tyre and Shouf, Beirut) Utilisising a practical green action approach, this project is set to further - Campaigns and events environmental context in UNRWA external and internal operations, donor policies (Environmental education including event, surveys, and competition) and program design. It will carry out green action, knowledge generation and upscaling design possibilities for Rashidieh, following on from two key documents developed in 2018 (UNRWA Environmental Health Stragegy and UPM Environmental Sanitation Action Plan).

Project Executing Partners Project Objectives - To explore entry points for environmental mainstreaming Experienced Local NGO in UNRWA in Rashidieh programs, strategic planning and Working Group Inside the Camp internal operations. - Explain and provide easy-to-use knowledge guidelines for Project Budget USD 75,000 the environmental framework that already exists in Rashidieh under the Environmental Health Strategy. - To use a rationale and easy-to-implement approach for rights and environmental issues. Activity Locations - Rooftop Locations inside the camp Contact: Project Lead at Rashidieh for - Tyre Nature Reserve Project Partners UNRWA - Rashidieh Camp Schools ANERA (example) UNRWA EL-MAWED, Mustapha (Eng). - Southern Organic Agriculture Zone MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMNT [email protected] NATURE CONSERVATION CENTRE,AUB

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