Civic involvement for a healthy environment in Ungheni municipality

The project has directly contributed to the improvement of the quality of citizens’ life, as residents of the blocks located on 3, 5, 7 Porumbescu street and 32 Alexandru cel Bun street from Ungheni (414 apartments), creating optimum conditions for rest and recreation, obtaining alternative electricity resources and improving the green spaces for a healthy environment. For this purpose, the street lighting infrastructure has been improved with being installed 59 pillars and 59 LED bulbs with the capacity of 15 W for ensuring te citizens’ security; trees and green lawns were planted, and at the same time the Association of Residents "Modern House" was created in order to cultivate skills and abilities to residents to manage, keep clean and use the public goods obtained within the project.

Children, young people (179 children and young people), women (490), men (188), including 35 people with disabilities were involved in carrying out the information and raising awareness campaign, consultation, exchange of good practices, monitoring and evaluation of the project, launching ideas on the design and location of the street furniture, making articles for the exhibition fair, participating in master classes, playing chess, participating in the exhibition of the implemented community projects and preparing traditional meals, launching proposals for activities of the Public Service Management and Monitoring Program, and being convinced that their views matter.

Within the project the collaboration relations between various civil society organizations were strengthened (PA RCSD, Local Initiative Groups "Chestnut Alley" and "Youth", PA "Open Gate", PA „Modern House”, Mayoralty & Ungheni Municipal Council and citizens. As proof are the results of the Study on assesment of the residents' satisfaction regarding the quality of the living conditions and the prioritization of the environmental needs and the 11 projects implemented in partnership, with internal and external financing, presented at the Exhibition Fair, where other activities took place: concert, master-classes, sports competitions and the traditional tasting exhibition.

The activities and results of the project have been disseminated through the local mass media and social networks. Thus, 8 200 citizens were periodically informed via Periodical Publication "Unghiul" and  2800 citizens were periodically informd via Periodical Publication "Expresul" and there are 3693 citizens/ followers of facebook page of Ungheni City Hall.

The innovativeness of the project results consists in the usage of non-polluting alternative energy resources, which are favorable to the environment, through the photovoltaic station installed on the roof of the residential block on 3 Porumbescu street, from where the electricity network of the street lighting for the yard of the 4 blocks of flats is supplied with energy, including the video surveillance system. The capacity of the photovoltaic station integrated in an off-grid inverter system is 3.3 kW and it provides 100% energy for the public lighting system in the mentioned area during sunshine. The area for photovoltaic panels is 19.68 m2. The annual solar irradiation potential for this location is 1150 kwh / kwp / year. The solar collector field consists of 12 photovoltaic panels, which generate 3795 kw per year. In the Republic of Moldova, for the production of 1 kwh of electricity, 0.467 kg of CO2 is generated. With the installation of the photovoltaic station, which produces annually 3795 kw, the volume of CO2 emitted in atmosphere at the production of electrical energy is annually reduced by about 1,772 kg of CO2 per year (0.467 kg CO2 x 3795 kw).