Green schools and healthcare facilities
Compendium of climate and disaster-resilient infrastructure and operation measures for schools and healthcare facilities in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA)
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- العربية
Highlights
The planetary crisis of climate change, environmental pollution and biodiversity loss has created incalculable losses across the world – but none greater than to children. The crisis has already exposed nearly every child on every continent to climate and environmental hazards, with approximately one billion children living in countries considered at extremely high climate risk.
The main objective of this document is to provide technical guidance to UNICEF’s programmes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region on a wide range of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies and solutions for schools and healthcare facilities, in a very practical and simple manner. These strategies and solutions are a combination of structural, and management (non-structural) recommendations are derived from a literature review from literature review. These are presented as a reference document to aid UNICEF Country Offices in discussions with Government and development partners on climate resilient educational and healthcare facilities.
The document includes a brief description of each technical solution, its suitability to either one or more climate risks, the operational and maintenance requirements, and an estimate of capital costs.
