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Projectbeschrijving

More students living in a room at the University campus of Yaoundé 1 have developed excessive wasting of water and electricity’s resources in their room every day. Often they open water faucets and let lights on during the whole day just because they know that the costs are not supported by them but by the University authorities and the price of the rent that is very insignificant also include invoices of water and electricity monthly. Even if some rooms have their water and electricity infrastructures spoilt, more students are adopting these kind of behaviors consciously. We remembered that sometimes we have adopted the same attitude many times but unconsciously and also seen many times flooding in several rooms of the campus because a student had opened a faucet all the day without scruple. Therefore, the University authorities have to pay biggest water and electricity bills and face to a higher risk of destruction of rooms and others infrastructures because of repeated flooding and fires.

Working to empower young people and children to become green in their daily activities, it is very difficult for us to see that kind of attitudes, and don’t take action to tackle it sounds bad. That’s why we think that it is our duty to sensitize our peers at the University campus about the necessity to adopt responsible and green attitudes for the urgent economy of water and electricity resources in their rooms so that they can contribute to save natural resources in their community and also for the whole planet.

The project is a call to action to bring students to become green through green attitudes and habits. It will be run during the whole 2010-2011academic year to September 2010 from June 2011 and will see its achievements be celebrate during the 2011 World Environment Day within the hosting University. The objectives will be reach through a green campaign inside the campus aiming to sensitize and educate the whole University community especially the campus inhabitants. The project activities will consists on mobilization of University officials and students around the green campaign, the advertisement of educative materials like posters, drawings, photos and our voices to share our message, sensitize and educate students with creative slogans, three main training sessions and educative talks for students living in the University campus, a door by door sensitization and discussions focused on sustainable development and green economy inside the campus, a door by door reparation of water and electricity spoilt materials in the University campus rooms, the creation of ten green spaces inside the University with public awareness messages for sensitization, a trees planting during the 2011 Earth Day celebration follow by the launching of the University Best Green Leaders Contest. They will also be organize several clean up activities inside the campus and around all the campus’ building. All these activities will be run by our organization and also with youth volunteers, University officials and members of the University clubs focused on sustainable development and environmental education. This will make students aware about the dramatic relation between that kind of behaviors adopted by them and climate change responsible of deterioration of our natural resources like and which is contributing to the lack of water access in several regions around Cameroon and the world. The campaign will make them conscious about their ability to become responsible citizens who can contribute to the development of their country by adopting eco-citizenship attitudes in their daily activities for the safeguard of our planet !

Project doelstellingen

The main goal is to encourage students living in the university campus at the University of Yaoundé 1 to adopt green attitudes by using water and electricity resources in their rooms and take care of green spaces.

The specific goals are to:

- Share information among students living in the University campus about how to adopt daily green attitudes and save the planet starting from the little things,
- Empower students to become more efficient in their use of natural resources during their academic lives and after,
- Help students to reduce their water and electricity’s bills amount by doing green economy and allow the University to get some money economy through bills amount,
- Educate students and the whole community at the University about the link existing between global warming and the wasting of natural resources by people,
- Create ten small green spaces inside the University campus related to Biodiversity and Environment education among students,
- Organize green contests among students to encourage the most green leaders of the University and recognize their achievements through offering of awards,
- Empower actual University students living in the campus to be able to share what they have learned with new comer students in the University

- Encourage the University authorities to repair all spoilt water and electricity infrastructures in the students rooms so that they can't accuse it to be responsible of the waste of these resources

- Establish a collaboration with the University officials and the University community aiming to make in the campus a new rule including punishments for students who waste the resources in their rooms.

Project doelgroep(en)

- 500 University students are the main beneficiaries,
- The University authorities are the second beneficiaries,
- The members of the University clubs and groups focused on sustainable development and environment protection,
- Students’ friends and families members will also gain from the project.

The target group is around 1000 people to be serve by the project.

Op welke manier draagt het project bij aan het oplossen van armoede?

The access of essential services is very difficult to ensure in our country. To really cover the human needs and to contribute to give them better living conditions will be more difficult in the future than now. The level of poverty is raised so that people don't have possibility to eat every day and get access to a good drinking water. Thousands of people don't have what to eat and drink and the lack of social infrastructure doesn't allow them to receive in their houses essential services and first products required as water, domestic energy, food and primary education. In another way we have a very big problem with human settlements and more people are without shelters or live in the street.

This is why our Government has decided to offer underpaid lodgings to poor people and especially to students attended school at university. Unfortunately even if more people are affected by the lack of settlement and access to good water, more of these students adopt bad practices by wasting water and electricity resources in their rooms at the university campus and also by destroying these social infrastructures without scruple. As university campus inhabitant we experienced sometimes this situation while knowing that in another place at the same time people of our family or another family are in the need because they don’t have access to human settlement and good water. It is for that reason we sincerely think that we have to act now with our peers to encourage others to live green lives, educate them about issues impacting people around the world and bring them become more efficient in their use of social infrastructures and natural resources with the impact on the global environment.

Duurzaamheid

The project is sustainable through its implementation with the main target group: University students living in the campus and the University officials. By involving them we will make them as main actors of the project so that during their entire stay at the campus they will continue with green habits, caring green spaces, share our green message to their campus mates and also other students coming newly in the campus as inhabitants. We will work with these target groups during the worldwide events and celebration in relation with environment and sustainable development so that during these events we can re empower our messages.

During the project we will work on 'doing' rather than 'asking' for change. It means that to ensure that after the project people will continue with green actions we will share specific messages supporting by real examples to show them the necessity to live green now and after. We will present to them the impact in all the aspects affecting by that kind of attitudes (health, economy, food, energy, natural resources...) This will make them feel responsible for their behavior and decide to adopt positive change.

We will work on changing attitudes for a better world with students as actors for change and the impact of global sensitization of other students newly comers or families members. This will help to sustain the campaign generation of students after generation. In order to sustain financially the project we will ask at the beginning to the hosting University to ensure and support it with future funds so that it can become a continuing activity without many funds raised firstly. The University authorities support will play a great role here through these sustainable funds aiming to renew the project's activities and materials. In other hand the University clubs working on environment will be able to organize fundraising activities within the University so support the campaign. This plan will bring support to the project for the coming campaigns. For that we will include fundraising skills in the training curriculum.

Begindatum van het project

10 september 2010

Einddatum van het project

10 juni 2011

Projectactiviteiten en tijdsplanning

The project's calendar is going to September 2010 at the beginning of the 2010-2011 academic year in Cameroon until June 2011 on the week of the World Environment Day celebration and also the end of the academic year. In case we haven't succeed to raise the necessary funds we will postpone the project's date of launching and wait that all money needed is available. The project timetable is below:

Meetings with the University authorities to present the campaign and involve the University: September 2010

Meetings with the students living in the University campus and with environmental club and other groups working on sustainable development: October 2010

Mobilization of local green NGOs and other local partners to get involved in the campaign: October-November 2010

Conception of campaign materials, tools and mobilization of all the logistics for the campaign: November-December 2010

First Training session and educative talk for students and volunteers living in the University campus: December 2010

Press conference and launching of the campaign inside the University: December 2010

Advertisement of campaign's materials like posters, drawings, photos and our voices to share our message, sensitize and educate students with creative slogans: January 2010

Second Training session and educative talk for students and volunteers living in the University campus: February 2011

Door by door sensitization and discussions focused on sustainable development and green economy inside the University campus: February 2011

Door by door reparation of water and electricity spoilt materials in the University campus rooms: February-March 2011

Creation of ten green spaces inside the University campus with public awareness messages for sensitization and trees planting activities: March-April 2011

Launching of the University Best Green Leaders Contest during the Earth Day and celebration of the event with great clean up activities inside the campus and around all the campus’ buildings: April 2011


Third Training session and educative talk for students and volunteers living in the University campus: May 2011

Installation of posters and billboards with educative messages in the student’s rooms aiming to sensitize them about the necessity to do water and electricity economy and remind our action: May-June 2011

Award ceremony of the University Best Green Leaders Contest and celebration of the World Environment day 2011in the University: June 2011

Final evaluation of the campaign with volunteers, University authorities, local NGOs, campaign's partners and campus inhabitants: June 2011

Verwachte eindresultaten

The University authorities accept and support the implementation of the campaign and involved the students for a global participation to its activities for best results

The students living in the University campus and all environmental club and other groups working on sustainable development involved themselves in the project and participate to its activities as main actors and volunteers

Local green NGOs of the city and other local partners are involved in the campaign and give their support to its success

The educative talks with students living in the University campus and the door by door sensitization and discussions focused on sustainable development and green economy will contribute to discuss with them about green attitudes and also to share their story and living conditions with invited city officials, University officials, civil society leaders. They will also gain new skills and knowledge related to sustainable development and climate change

The reparation door by door of water and electricity spoilt materials in the University campus rooms will consist to repair all spoilt infrastructures in the students rooms so that it can help them to get all means to economy water and electricity and also help the University save money with small amounts bills

Ten green spaces will be created inside the University campus with public awareness messages in order to sensitize students on biodiversity, environment and sustainable development. Students will take care of these spaces and also plant trees around to mitigate global warming and reduce their carbon footprint annually

The University Best Green Leaders on Biodiversity and Environment Contest and the celebration of the World Environment day 2011 in the University will help students to take the lead and action to become green in their rooms and lives by economizing water and electricity daily and also taking care of the green spaces created inside the campus. This will also contribute to the recognition of their achievements so that they can be awarded.

The campaign help us to get a new partnership with the University's authorities and also gives a new public's perception of green activities among students living in the University campus

The volunteers and youth participants will see increasing their commitment to take care of their planet and environment by adopting green attitudes in their rooms and everywhere.

Students and other youth volunteers will benefit from news knowledge related to how be eco-citizen in his daily activities and contributes to save our planet starting from the little things

The campaign will capture the attention of target public on how they are contributing to global warming when using without any economy water and electricity in their campus rooms

The campaign will help us to talk with target group about the link between climate change and their attitudes and also about what they can do to become eco-citizens in their daily activities and contribute to save the planet by saving water and energy and think not of them but about people in need

The advertised campaign’s materials like posters, billboards, drawings, and our voices using to share our message will contribute to sensitize and educate students with creative slogans and then mobilize them around clean up activities inside the campus and around all the campus’ buildings aiming to clean their live milieu. The campus will become very clean after the clean up activities

Local media like press release, radio stations and TV stations will send their representative to cover the whole campaign and will make interviews, reporting and media coverage

More than five city and University officials will be present during the project and will speak in front of the students and other participants to encourage them and support our initiative

The University will adopt a new rule aiming to make students living in the University campus to adopt friendly environmental attitudes in their rooms, with some possible punishment for those who are not respecting the new rule

Projectbegroting

Totaal bedrag project

EUR 4.834

Toelichting begroting

The budget total amount in local currency (Fcfa) is 3.142.100 (three millions one hundred fourty two thousands and one hundred). In Euros the total amount is 4.834 (four thousands eight hundred and thirty four cents).
The main budget points in relation with the project activities and implementation are:

1- Administrative costs: These costs are covering expenses related to communication (Internet and telephone/mobile), editing and printing of documentation, link, paper and other costs related to meetings expenses (taxis fares, refreshment, documentation…) to meet with University officials, project’s partners, University clubs and youth groups.

2- Project’s campaign and field activities materials: These costs are covering the conception and production of project’s two training packs focused on sustainability, communication materials like T-shirts, banners, and posters. These expenses also concern trees, flowers, clean up materials, water and electricity materials to be use in the student’s rooms during reparation.

3- Project’s implementation costs: The costs here are covering the media outreach campaign expenses with local media coverage for a better impact of the project, rental of venue for the training sessions, transportation for organizers and trainees, meals and refreshment, and also consultancies for experts invited.

Reeds ontvangen bedragen uit andere bronnen

None. We are still looking for entire funding of the project and at this stage any fund is already received.

Verwachte bedragen uit andere bronnen

We are able to mobilize about 500,00 Euros from the hosting University. This is just an expectation. Other funding can come from local partners or main UN agencies. However we are not sure that they can support us with money rather than expertise and advices.

Gevraagde bedrag aan 1%CLUB

EUR 4.834