Last updated: October 2021
The project is a community garden hosted by the first humanitarian NGO in post communist Romania, Fundaţia ’89 (1). It serves as a permanent sustainable source of the NGO in order to feed its employees and to engage in community work homeless people, itinerant workers, evacuated families, drug abusers. (1)
Overview
Nature-based solution
- Community gardens and allotments
- Allotments
- Community gardens
Key challenges
- Social justice, cohesion and equity (SDG 10)
- Social justice and equity
- Social cohesion
- Social interaction
- Health and well-being (SDG 3)
- Improving mental health
- Creation of opportunities for recreation
- Sustainable consumption and production (SDG 12)
- Sustainable consumption
- Sustainable production
Focus
Creation of new green areas, Knowledge creation and awareness raising
Project objectives
1. Offering a community space for the disadvantageous groups (1);
2. Creating a place in which occupational therapy can be implemented (1);
3. Allowing the foundation to be sustainable and grow its won crop (1).
Implementation activities
Arranging and sowing an area of 60 square meters to give the foundation a permanent source of cooking herbs (2).
Planting vegetables (2).
Maintaining a green area (2).
Main beneficiaries
- Non-government organisation/Civil Society
- Citizens or community groups
- Marginalized groups: Elderly people, Socio-economically disadvantaged populations (e.g. low-income households, unemployed), People with functional diversities
- Young people and children
- Other
Governance
Management set-up
- Led by non-government actors
Type of initiating organisation
- Non-government organisation/civil society
- Citizens or community group
Participatory approaches/ community involvement
- Co-planning (e.g. stakeholder workshops, focus groups, participatory mapping)
- Joint implementation (e.g. tree planting)
Details on the roles of the organisations involved in the project
The innovation is a joint initiative between 2 NGO's: the 1989Timisoara Foundation which is a humanitarian foundation and the Lions Timisoara Bastion Club, a civic organization (3)
Project implemented in response to ...
... an EU policy or strategy?
No
... a national policy or strategy?
No
... a local policy or strategy?
No
Financing
Total cost
€10,000 - €50,000
Source(s) of funding
- Funds provided by non-governmental organization (NGO)
Type of funding
- Unknown
Non-financial contribution
Type of non-financial contribution
- Provision of land
- Provision of goods
- Provision of labour
- Provision of expertise
Who provided the non-financial contribution?
- Citizens (e.g. volunteering)
- Other
Impacts and Monitoring
Environmental impacts
- Green space and habitat
- Increased green space area
Economic impacts
- Increase in agricultural production (for profit or not)
Socio-cultural impacts
- Social justice and cohesion
- Increased access to healthy/affordable food
Type of reported impacts
Achieved impacts
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. Panduru, A., Timis Online (2015) Gradina de verdeturi in curtea Fundatiei Timisoara ‘89, pentru oamenii fara adapost, Available at Source link (Accessed 25-6-2020)
2. Ziua de Vest, (2015), Grădină de verdeţuri pentru persoanele fără adăpost de la Fundația „Timișoara ‘89”, cu sprijinul Lions, Available at Source link (Accessed 25-6-2020)
3. Lions Club Timisoara (2015), Scopul si obiectivele Clubului, Available at Source link (Accessed 25-6-2020)
4. Bogdan Piticariu, Timpolis, "Cantina de ajutor social, transformată în centru pentru oamenii străzii", (2011) (Website not available in 2020) - the archive of the newspaper only went until 2013
5. Fundatia Timisoara 89 (no date), Website of the foundation, Available at Source link, (Accessed 11-8-2020)
2. Ziua de Vest, (2015), Grădină de verdeţuri pentru persoanele fără adăpost de la Fundația „Timișoara ‘89”, cu sprijinul Lions, Available at Source link (Accessed 25-6-2020)
3. Lions Club Timisoara (2015), Scopul si obiectivele Clubului, Available at Source link (Accessed 25-6-2020)
4. Bogdan Piticariu, Timpolis, "Cantina de ajutor social, transformată în centru pentru oamenii străzii", (2011) (Website not available in 2020) - the archive of the newspaper only went until 2013
5. Fundatia Timisoara 89 (no date), Website of the foundation, Available at Source link, (Accessed 11-8-2020)