Last updated: April 2023
The remodelling project for the sidewalk of Mandalay East Moat is led by the Thingaha Foundation, a joint organization between the Eden Group, MAB Bank and Denko Trading. The Thingaha Foundation passed the project to the Mandalay City Development Council (MCDC) in April 2019 (1). The sidewalk between the east moat and 66th Street, which is one of the four public recreation zones located near the Mandalay Palace, was remodelled by replacing old trees with new trees to widen the sidewalk platform area and to be accessible to disabled people. The implementation activities also included planting new street trees, flower boxes and green bushes along the sidewalk (2, 3). An architect from Thailand drew the design, and besides new green infrastructure, it also included installing new benches and exercise equipment (3). Public advice was collected regarding the sidewalk designs, and city dwellers participated in choosing the final design (4). The residents of Mandalay use the sidewalk area for several physical activities and social gatherings, and different kinds of social events like book festivals to improve social interaction and social cohesion. The sidewalk has become one of the most visited attractions in Mandalay, both for the residents and visitors. (2, 3)
After remodeling project for the sidewalk
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eastern_walkway_Mandalay.jpg
Overview
Nature-based solution
- Grey infrastructure featuring greens
- Alley or street trees and other street vegetation
Key challenges
- Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
- Green space creation and/or management
- Health and well-being (SDG 3)
- Creation of opportunities for recreation
- Inclusive and effective governance (SDG 16)
- Inclusive governance
Focus
Creation of new green areas
Project objectives
- To increase access to green urban areas for the general public and disabled persons.
- To upgrade existing sidewalk infrastructure, both with vegetation and amenities for local residents.
- To create a recreation area for the public which can be used for social activities and interaction (e.g. outdoor gym equipment, jogging and walking tracks, benches). (2,3,4)
Implementation activities
The old trees are replaced by a total of 323 different kinds of street trees. Several flower boxes and green bushes are installed along the sidewalk project area to improve the public greenspace. New sitting benches and physical exercise equipment are newly installed for free use by the general public to improve physical health. An architect from Thailand designed the place. Public advice was collected regarding the sidewalk designs, and city dwellers participated in the final design. (2,3,4,5,6)
Main beneficiaries
- Local government/Municipality
- Citizens or community groups
- Marginalized groups: People with functional diversities
Governance
Management set-up
- Led by non-government actors
Type of initiating organisation
- Private sector/corporate actor/company
- Private foundation/trust
Participatory approaches/ community involvement
- Consultation (e.g. workshop, surveys, community meetings, town halls)
Details on the roles of the organisations involved in the project
The remodelling project for the sidewalk of Mandalay East Moat is led, implemented and donated by the Thingaha Foundation, which is a joint organization between the Eden Group, MAB Bank and Denko Trading. The Thingaha Foundation passed the project to the Mandalay City Development Council (MCDC) in April 2019. (1). An architect from Thailand drew the design, public advice was collected regarding the designs of the sidewalk, and city dwellers participated in the final design (4). Now, the Mandalay City Development Council is managing the day-to-day maintenance of the sidewalk.
Project implemented in response to ...
... an EU policy or strategy?
No
... a national policy or strategy?
Unknown
... a local policy or strategy?
Yes
(Mandalay City Municipal Development Law (7) after the intervention was taken over by the Mandalay municipality. )
Financing
Total cost
Less than €10,000
Source(s) of funding
- Private Foundation/Trust
Type of funding
- Donations
Non-financial contribution
Type of non-financial contribution
- Provision of expertise
Who provided the non-financial contribution?
- Citizens (e.g. volunteering)
Impacts and Monitoring
Environmental impacts
- Green space and habitat
- Increased green space area
Economic impacts
- Unknown
Socio-cultural impacts
- Health and wellbeing
- Gain in activities for recreation and exercise
- Safety
- Increased perception of safety
Type of reported impacts
Expected impacts, No impacts reported
Presence of formal monitoring system
Unknown
Presence of indicators used in reporting
No evidence in public records
Presence of monitoring/ evaluation reports
No evidence in public records
Availability of a web-based monitoring tool
No evidence in public records
References
1. Thingaha Foundation donated complete remodeling of sidewalks to Mandalay Government, (26 April 2019), available at Source link (accessed 2.2.2023)
2. Aung Ko Oo, (16 November 2018), Public advices are collected to remodel platform of Mandalay East Moat, available at Source link (accessed 2.2.2023)
3. Myanmar Digital News (2019), မန္တလေး ကျုံးအရှေ့ဘက်ရှိ ပလက်ဖောင်တစ်လျောက်တွင် စည်းကမ်းမဲ့ ကွမ်းသွေးထွေးမှုများ အရေးယူမည်, available at Source link (accessed 12.4.2023)
4. PaukPhaw (2019), က်ဳံးအေရွ႕ဖက္ျခမ္း ပလက္ေဖာင္းသစ္ဖြင့္လွစ္, available at Source link (accessed 12.4.2023)
5. One News Myanmar (2019), မႏၱေလးက်ံဳးအေရွ႕ဘက္ျခမ္းပလက္ေဖာင္း သၾကၤန္အၾကိဳေန႕ ဖြင့္လွစ္မည္, available at Source link (accessed 12.4.2023)
6. 7Day TV (2019), မႏၱေလးက် ဳံးအေရွ႕ဘက္ ပလက္ေဖာင္းနဲ႕လက္ရန္းျပဳ ျပင္တာ သႀကၤန္မတိုင္ခင္ၿပီးမယ္, available at Source link (accessed 12.4.2023)
7. Mandalay City Development Committee (no date), Mandalay City Municipal Development Law, available at Source link (accessed 12.4.2023)
2. Aung Ko Oo, (16 November 2018), Public advices are collected to remodel platform of Mandalay East Moat, available at Source link (accessed 2.2.2023)
3. Myanmar Digital News (2019), မန္တလေး ကျုံးအရှေ့ဘက်ရှိ ပလက်ဖောင်တစ်လျောက်တွင် စည်းကမ်းမဲ့ ကွမ်းသွေးထွေးမှုများ အရေးယူမည်, available at Source link (accessed 12.4.2023)
4. PaukPhaw (2019), က်ဳံးအေရွ႕ဖက္ျခမ္း ပလက္ေဖာင္းသစ္ဖြင့္လွစ္, available at Source link (accessed 12.4.2023)
5. One News Myanmar (2019), မႏၱေလးက်ံဳးအေရွ႕ဘက္ျခမ္းပလက္ေဖာင္း သၾကၤန္အၾကိဳေန႕ ဖြင့္လွစ္မည္, available at Source link (accessed 12.4.2023)
6. 7Day TV (2019), မႏၱေလးက် ဳံးအေရွ႕ဘက္ ပလက္ေဖာင္းနဲ႕လက္ရန္းျပဳ ျပင္တာ သႀကၤန္မတိုင္ခင္ၿပီးမယ္, available at Source link (accessed 12.4.2023)
7. Mandalay City Development Committee (no date), Mandalay City Municipal Development Law, available at Source link (accessed 12.4.2023)
Mandalay East Moat Sidewalk
https://www.mdn.gov.mm/my/mnttle-kunarebhkri-plkpheaangttcleaakttng-cnnykmmai-kmsethemumaa-areyuumnny
Implementation of the remodeling Project
https://free4readers.com/v3/eng_news_detail_m.php?id=6154&type=3
Design of the remodeling Project
https://www.mizzimaburmese.com/sites/default/files/styles/news_category_large_image/public/news-images/mandaly-fram.jpg?itok=bh2EGM15
Moving the old trees from the platform
https://cdn.mpt.com.mm/news/2018/10/10/5bbdf09b799d3_400x300.jpg
Information about this nature-based solution was collected as part of the "NBS 2022" UNA Asian extension project funded by the Asia-Europe Foundation.