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| Country | Lebanon | |
| City | Beirut | |
| Name | Beirut Madinati | |
| Date | 2015 | |
| Description of the project | Beirut Madinati (BM) saw light in 2015 after a garbage crisis downtown. Facing inactive government, it formulated a policy: Municipal Solid Waste based on 4 R: Refusing certain products (straws and other thin plastic things), Reducing (consumption), Reusing, Recycling which received opposition from the municipality. NGOs and the nascent political political movement formed the “Waste Management Coalition”. The campaign is driven by the volunteers who are developing and testing “people centered programs”, in the Libanese capital.
Action Madinati Tafroz (means “my city will sort”) was launched by the waste management coalition with the idea was to select 15 appartments located in a representative congested, middle class neighborhood with a fair share of people who were not political and people attached to 2/3 political parties, and to survey how much waste they have. The entry point was to create a community and then spread the organization type to the city. More than 30 different people and several areas expressed interest and will to join the project. A manual was produced but did not produced the domino effect expected in the city and the process was thought through so as to be concretized. Thus, Beirut Madinati was first a political campaign for the 2016 municipal elections and became a political movement led by volunteers from various backgrounds such as urban planning, transport engineering, waste management, economics. This movement aims at building an alternative to the traditional political system in Beirut and it places livability at the heart of his program. The movement claims social, economic and political rights of the population whilst also preserving the environment and taking care of the cultural and natural heritage of Beirut. It has set up a 10 points municipal programme. |
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| Urban Co-Governance | Moderate | |
| Enabling State | Weak | |
| Pooling | Strong | |
| Experimentalism | Strong | |
| Tech Justice | Weak | |
| Project Website | http://www.beirutmadinati.com/ | |
| References, sources, contact person(s) | Interview; Website http://www.beirutmadinati.com/
Contact : contact@beirutmadinati.com |
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