1. General information
Location and description of the intervention
City or FUA
Iaşi (FUA)
Region
Europe
Native title of the NBS intervention
Curatirea lacului Chirita
Short description of the intervention
The Chirita dam is the drinking water reserve of Iasi. The lake is protected by law, with bathing or fishing prohibited. In 2013 it was cleaned and sanitized since it became an area where many people used to dump their house residues. As such a national campaign sponsored by an NGO having social responsibility claims implemented this NBS, which meant cleaning the shores of the lake (1).
Address

Chirita lake
Iasi
Romania

Location
The NBS is a city-wide initiative, the GIS point marks the centre of the city
Total area
780000.00m²
NBS area
780000.00m²
Type of area before implementation of the NBS
Natural Heritage Area/Untouched nature
Other
Please specify “other type of area” before implementation of the NBS
Blue area used as a dumpster
Website of the intervention
https://www.bzi.ro/lacul-chirita-curatat-in-campania-let-s-do-it-romania-392416
Timeline of intervention
Start date of the intervention (planning process)
unknown
Start date of intervention (implementation process)
2013
End date of the intervention
2013
Present stage of the intervention
Completed
Goals of the intervention
1. Supports the environment and the community in the long run.
2. To teach the community about the environment and group cohesion.
3. To restore the ecosystem.
4. To avoid residues slipping in the water.
5. To increase the clean areas of the city (1).
Quantitative targets
- Clean an area of 78 ha (2);
- Through cleaning protect the fact that the Chiriţa treatment plant treats water from the Prut River and/or Lake Chiriţa at a capacity of 0.6 m³ / s - 1.15 m³ / s (1);
- Involve over 776 volunteers, 672 students and 62 professors (3).
Monitoring indicators defined
Amount of physical space needed to be cleaned;
Number of volunteers involved (1,3).
Sustainability challenge(s) addressed
Environmental quality
Waste management
Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
Habitat and biodiversity restoration
Water management (SDG 6)
Improvements to water quality
Social justice, cohesion and equity (SDG 10)
Social cohesion
What types of restoration goals are / were defined for the NBS intervention?
Ecosystem-focused
What activities are implemented to realize the restoration goals and targets?
Rehabilitate and restore damaged or destroyed ecosystems
Public engagement
Implementation activities
The collected waste was placed in bags and was transported with a car from ApaVital's fleet to a waste disposal area.
"For nearly two hours, ApaVital volunteers have traversed both shores of Lake Chirita, gathering hundreds of pets, paper, plastic bags, other wastes, including those from construction, abandoned near the water glare or the road surrounding the accumulation (1)
Type of NBS project
Management and improved protection of rivers and other blue areas
Ecological restoration of ecosystems
NBS domain and interventions
Ecological domain(s) where the NBS intervention(s) is/are implemented
Blue infrastructure
Lakes/ponds
In-land wetlands, peatlands, swamps, and moors
Amenities offered by the NBS
Unknown
Services
Expected ecosystem services delivered
Provisioning services
Water (surface and ground water for drinking and non-drinking purposes)
Regulating services
Water purification / filtration
Cultural services
Tourism
Recreation
Intellectual interactions (scientific and / or educational)
Scale
Spatial scale
Meso-scale: Regional, metropolitan and urban level
Beneficiaries
Primary Beneficiaries
Local government/Municipality
Non-government organisation/Civil Society
Citizens or community groups
Young people and children
Governance
Governance arrangements
Led by non-government actors
Non-government actors
Non-governmental organisation (NGO) / Civil society / Churches
Please specify the roles of the specific government and non-government actor groups involved in the initiative
Let's Do It Romania is the largest social movement in Romania with over 1,400,000 volunteers involved in 7 years of activity. Their vision is a country with 0 waste. Every year the organization has a cleaning campaign through which they summon volunteers and start cleaning the cities or polluted areas. For this NBS, the campaign was as usual thought and implemented by the organization which received promotion help from schools (3)
Key actors - initiating organization
Non-government organisation/civil society
Land owners
No information found
Key actors - Other stakeholders involved (besides initiating actors)
Local government/municipality
Public sector institution
Non-government organisation/civil society
Citizens or community group
Private sector/corporate actor/company
Land owners
Public space owned by the city
Participatory methods/forms of community involvement used
Unknown
Policy drivers
NBS intervention implemented in response to an Regional Directive/Strategy
Yes
Please specify the "Regional Directive/Strategy"
EU signed in 2011 the Declaration Nr. 3/2011, through which endorses and supports the actions of LDIW (Let's Do It Wolrd) and will ask
European Commission Improvement EU legislation on waste management.This NBS is part of the Let's Do It Romania organization, a subsidiary of Let's Do It World, the biggest global civic movement, an accredited member of the United Nation's Environment Program an agency of United Nations that coordinates its environmental activities, assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices (4)
NBS intervention implemented in response to a national regulations/strategy/plan
Yes
Please specify the national regulations/strategy/plan
This NBS mentions the fact that the Chiriţa Pond, with an area of ​​78 ha, is considered a reservation and a monument of nature through Law no.5 of 6 March 2000 on the approval of the National Territory Planning Plan - Section III - Protected Areas (2)
NBS intervention implemented in response to a local regulation/strategy/plan
Unknown
Mandatory or voluntary intervention
Voluntary (spontaneous)
Enablers
Presence of specific city-level GI/NBS vision/strategy/plan - mentioned in connection to the project
Unknown
Presence of specific city-level GI/NBS section/part in a more general plan - mentioned in connection to the project
Unknown
Presence of city network or regional partnerships focused on NBS - mentioned in connection to the project
Yes
Please specify
This NBS is a part of Let's Do It Romania campaign, "Cleaning all over the country in one day!" organized in several cities of Romania. It is also connected to the 2012 World Cleanup campaign which includes neighboring countries such as Bulgaria, Moldova or Hungary (4)
Presence of GI / NBS research project - mentioned in connection to the project
Unknown
Subsidies/investment for GI / NBS in the city - mentioned in connection to the project
No
Please specify
There were not subsidies involved. Actually there were calls for donations done by the organization either through a campaign that asked citizens to donate 2% of their taxed money to the organization or through crowdfunding (3)
Co-finance for NBS
No
Co-financing governance arrangements
No
Was this co-governance arrangement already in place, or was it set up specifically for this NBS?
No
Financing
Total cost
Not applicable
What is/was the Cost/Budget (EUR) of the NBS or green infrastructure elements?
Unknown
What are the total amount of expected annual maintenance costs?
Unknown
What is the expected annual maintenance costs of the NBS or GI elements?
Unknown
Please specify cost savings
Since this NBS involved only volunteers and since the cleaning of the area was a job that belonged to the municipality, the cost savings consist in the fact that Iasi City Hall invested nothing in the implementation of this NBS so the taxpayers' money was saved (2) The garbage bags were donations from the municipality (3)
Please specify total cost (EUR)
Since this NBS involved only volunteers and since the cleaning of the area was a job that belonged to the municipality, the cost savings consist in the fact that Iasi City Hall invested nothing in the implementation of this NBS so the taxpayers' money was saved (2) The garbage bags were donations from the municipality (3)
Source(s) of funding
Unknown
Type of fund(s) used
Unknown
Non-financial contribution
Yes
Type of non-financial contribution
Provision of land
Provision of goods
Provision of labour
Provision of expertise
Provision of other services
Who provided the non-financial contribution?
Public authorities (e.g. land, utility services)
Citizens (e.g. volunteering)
Other
Business models
Risk reduction model
Urban offsetting model (biodiversity or water)
Which of the involved actors was motivated by this model?
Public actor (e.g. municipality)
Private non-for-profit actor (e.g. NGO, foundation)
Citizens / local communities
Type of innovation
Social
Governance innovation
Please specify social innovation
This was a grass root movement which wanted to clean up the space and implemented environmental values (1)
Novelty level of the innovation
The innovation is copied/derived from previous initiative(s) without substantial adaptation
Please specify novelty level of the innovation
This NBS is part of the francize Let's Do It World. For 2012 there were 7 cities involved (4)
Replicability/Transferability
Ambiguous (e.g. multiple interpretations)
Please specify Replicability/Transferability
This NBS is part of the francize Let's Do It World. For 2012 there were 7 cities involved in which the cleaning included parks or riverbanks (4)
Impacts, benefits
Environmental impacts
Environmental quality
Improved waste management
Description of environmental benefits
The NBS did not report written environmental benefits but the action had the following impacts mentioned in the media:
-cleaned at least 5 areas in almost every county;
-had a recycling percentage of at least 30%;
-collected 2235 bags, of which 568 are recyclable bags.
Meaning that the action improved waste management in the area (4).
Economic impacts
Unknown
Description of economic benefits
Unknown
Social and cultural impacts
Unknown
Description of social and cultural benefits
Unknown
Type of reported impacts
Achieved impacts
Indicators
Number of areas cleaned;
Increase in recycling percentage;
Amount of waste collected (4).
Environmental, social and economic impacts
Water management (SDG 6)
Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
Environmental quality
Health and well-being (SDG 3)
Analysis of specific impact categories
Job creation: The NBS created ...
Voluntary work opportunities
Negative impacts: Did the project cause any problems or concerns?
No information was found regarding negative impacts of the project
COVID-19 pandemic
Unknown as of August 2020
Methods of impact monitoring
Process of recording NBS impacts
No evidence in public records
Methods used to evaluate the impacts of NBS
Unknown
Evidence for use of assessment
Presence of an assessment, evaluation and/or monitoring process
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
Impact assessment mechanism
Name of any specific impact assessment tools
Unknown
Use of GIS in mapping impacts
No evidence in public records
Citizen involvement
Citizens involvement in assessment/evaluation
Unknown
Citizens involvement in the analysis of the assessment/evaluation
Unknown
Follow-up to the evaluation / assessment
Unknown
References
Web links relevant to the intervention
Lacul Chirita, judetul Iasi
Let's Do it Romania
Monument al naturii la Iasi purificat prin campania Let's do it, Romania
50% din deseuri colectate de Let’s Do It, Romania! sunt reciclate
List of references
1. Let's Do It Romania, General Introduction of the campaign, Available at https://letsdoitromania.ro/proiecte/ziua-de-curatenie-nationala/ (Accessed 24-8-2020)

2. BZI (2013), Lacul Chirita, curatat in campania "Let's Do It Romania" , Available at https://www.bzi.ro/lacul-chirita-curatat-in-campania-let-s-do-it-romania-392416 (Accessed 24-8-2020)

3. BZI (2013), Monument al naturii din Iasi, purificat prin campania Let’s Do It Romania, Available at https://www.bzi.ro/monument-al-naturii-din-iasi-purificat-prin-campania-let-s-do-it-romania-foto-392504 (Accessed 24-8-2020)

4. Green Report (2013), 50% din deseuri colectate de Let’s Do It, Romania! sunt reciclate, Available at https://www.green-report.ro/50-din-deseuri-colectate-de-lets-do-it-romania-sunt-reciclate/ (Accessed 24-8-2020)

Interview comments
Since I am missing monitoring reports and I actually found the ones from 2012, I sent an e-mail to the organization to see if they can send them
Comments and notes
Pictures of the NBS
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Please specify other source of non-financial contribution
NGO