WASTE MANAGEMENT
Dannieh goes cleaner!
MedCities supported Dannieh Union of Municipalities in conducting an awareness raising campaign to stress the importance of keeping the roads and streets clean.
Tags: waste management, Mediterranean cities, Lebanon
Challenges addressed
- Increased demand of municipal cleaning services due the increased population by displaced Syrians.
- Increase by approximately 50% of the amount of waste collected in Lebanese municipalities since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011.
- Intensification of the misery experienced by the displaced Syrians and the hosting communities, resulting on growing social unrest and conflict.
- Health risks related to accumulation of waste due to “on the road” dumping on litter.
- Lack of human resources and appropriate technical equipment in the Union of Municipalities.
Main objectives
To prevent waste generation and increase the capacities of the Union of the Municipalities of Dannieh in waste management.
- To improve street cleaning to avoid waste accumulations causing risks to population of the region, both inhabitants and refugees.
- To mitigate the effect of displaced Syrians crises influx in waste management of the Union of Municipalities of Dannieh.
- Build the awareness of local inhabitants about street cleanliness, health and environment in general.
Facts
Project type Technical Assistance
Promoter
MedCities
Dannieh Union of Municipalities
with the support of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona
Catalan Agency for Development and Cooperation
Partners
Youth Dialogue Association YDA and local Scout groups.
Beneficiaries
Inhabitants and merchants all along a 5 Kms. main road from Kfarhabou until Mrah EL Sreij passing through Kfarchlan within the Union of Municipalities of Dannieh.
Start date Nov. – Dec. 2017
Project description
Mennieh Union of Municipalities has a population of around 100 000 inhabitants and also hosts approximately 35 000 displaced Syrians. This has resulted in an increase of waste generation, the collection of which is the responsibility of the Union.
MedCities liaised with Mennieh Union to implement an awareness raising campaign addressing all the schools within the Union, providing means for waste separation and assuring a separated collection system.
In order to be able to address the 28 (out of 31) schools which participated, and to assure the sustainability of the action, the approach included a “training the trainers component” in which 126 volunteers from the schools and municipalities increased their knowledge on integrated waste management systems, the impacts caused by waste on the environment and human health, sorting at source schemes, and methods and tools for awareness-raising that addressed various age groups.
The training was followed by an enthusiastic and intense campaign in all 28 schools combined with the delivery of sorting containers and equipment. The Union then initiated a separated collection system for the sorted waste.
The action was implemented in coordination with a sorting at source project in the Urban Community of Al Fayhaa – in which MedCities participated – and with other initiatives aiming to stimulate cooperation on waste management focused in Mennieh.
Impact and results
- 28 schools engaged in the sorting at source of waste, through the support of the Education Department for North Lebanon.
- 126 volunteers engaged and trained on sorting at source and awareness raising and carriedout ca. 600 actions.
- 14,730 students from preschool to secondary school engaged in awareness rising activities and sorting practices.
- Collaboration between different initiatives begun and synergies between them promoted.
- 289 sorting containers distributed.
- Separated collection system established.
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