Beirut Critical Environment Recovery, Restoration and Waste Management Program

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Closed

The development objective of Critical Environment Recovery, Restoration and Waste Management Program is to support immediate environment control measures from the impacts of August 2020 Port of Beirut explosion and planning for longer term environmental restoration efforts in Beirut City. This project has three components. 1) The first component, . Rehabilitation of damaged solid waste management infrastructure and management of asbestos-contaminated debris generated due to PoB explosion, has the following sub-components: (i) Management of asbestos-contaminated debris generated in the explosion affected areas of Beirut; (ii) Rehabilitation of severely damaged solid waste management facilities serving Beirut area; and (iii) Piloting ISWM in the selected explosion impacted areas of Beirut. 2) The second component, Policy and institutional support for greening Beirut Reconstruction Agenda, has the following sub-components: (i) Establishment of a collaborative platform for stakeholder engagement and planning priority actions for greening Beirut’s reconstruction agenda; and (ii) Strengthening monitoring and enforcement for the management of critical hazardous and chemical substances. 3) The third component, Project Management, aims to support project management activities to be carried out by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as an Intermediary Implementing Agency (IIA).

FY17 - Water, Sanitation and Waste Management

World Bank Group

Project

Water Supply and Storage, Chemical (Industrial), Manufacturing (Industrial), Biomass, Waste Processing and Treatment, Government