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EU-funded campaign in Jordanian schools focuses on waste management
About 2,000 Jordanian and Syrian students in 20 Jordanian schools participated in an European Union-funded campaign under the theme of “keeping our city clean.”
The campaign – which targeted public schools in Jordan – focused on sustainable waste management.
The campaign was spearheaded within the framework of a program launched by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to raise awareness among young people about solid waste management in Jordan, an important step towards building an environmentally-conscious generation.
Supported by the EBRD and the European Union (EU), the awareness raising campaign “Keeping our city clean” targeted Jordanian and Syrian students in 20 public schools and focused on sustainable waste management.
Under the campaign backed by the EBRD and the European Union (EU), two thousand students in Amman, aged 12-15, learned about solid waste management and the importance of minimizing waste in their day to day behavior.
The campaign was organized in the context of the EBRD’s refugee response plan, which includes investments with Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) for expanding and improving solid waste management in their main landfill in Ghabawi.
The landfill handles around 4,300 tons/day and its capacity has been strained by a growing population, including the arrival of Syrian refugees since 2011.
Local non-governmental organization Green Wheelz implemented the campaign and taught the students about the challenges that increased amounts of waste would pose in the years to come, the importance of recycling and reusing materials, and the steps everyone can take to build a greener and more sustainable city.
The campaign aimed at reinforcing the students’ sense of responsibility and developing a positive attitude towards recycling.
The end of the successful campaign was marked by a closing event attended by Dr. Heike Harmgart, EBRD Managing Director for the southern and eastern Mediterranean region, and Maria Hadjitheodosiou, EU Ambassador to Jordan and the Mayor of Amman, Youssef Shawarbeh.
The EBRD has been working in municipal infrastructure development with GAM since 2015 to address numerous challenges, including the construction of an additional cell at the Ghabawi landfill and the creation of a landfill gas recovery system, which generates electricity from waste, a ground-breaking technology in the region. The city of Amman has joined the EBRD Green Cities program.
To date, the Bank has invested JOD 112.5 million (equivalent of €144.2 million) of loans to improve the operations of GAM and catalyzed donor support from the European Union, the United Kingdom, TaiwanICDF and the EBRD’s Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Multi Donor Account (Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Taipei China and the UK).
Since Jordan joined the EBRD in 2012, the Bank has invested over €1.5 billion in 50 projects.
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