Green Recovery And Reconstruction: Training Toolkit For Humanitarian Aid ORGANIZATIONAL OPERATIONS Session 2: Initial Assessment and Bench Marking

1Mod 10 Ses 2 Initial Assessment and Benchmarking for GREENING

2Mod 10 Ses 2 Learning Objectives  Understand the basics of GREENING activities  Develop an initial assessment questionnaire  Investigate sources for benchmarking

3Mod 10 Ses 2 3 What is GREENING all about?  Environmental performance  Three Strategies  Recycling  Office equipment  Building energy management  Do no harm What else?

4Mod 10 Ses 2 4 Remember that GREENING activities are…  Location-specific  Culture-specific  Resource-specific What do YOU think that means?

5Mod 10 Ses 2 5 In your organization, which GREENING activities are you most familiar with?

6Mod 10 Ses 2 6 There are differences in GREENING activities for…  Headquarters offices  Field offices What are they?

7Mod 10 Ses 2 7 Questions or comments on GREENING?

8Mod 10 Ses 2 8 There are several aspects of an INITIAL ASSESSMENT…  CATALOG your current practices  REVIEW Informal and formal  ASK your staff  FIND any tracking procedures  LOOK for baseline data

9Mod 10 Ses 2 9 What are your BASELINE data?  Building energy  Office supplies  Office equipment  What else?

10Mod 10 Ses 2 Team Exercise (30 minutes)  Prepare a set of questions you would ask for an INITIAL ASSESSMENT in a headquarters office  Prepare a set of questions you would ask for an INITIAL ASSESSMENT in a field office Provide at least two flipchart pages of questions

11Mod 10 Ses 2 11 Questions or comments on INITIAL ASSESSMENT?

12Mod 10 Ses 2 12 What is BENCHMARKING? Looking at the activities of other similar organizations What are some of those organizations?

13Mod 10 Ses 2 13 WWF GREENING approach…  Sustainable procurement policy  Building energy conservation  Recycling MUCH more later

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15Mod 10 Ses 2 WWF Mission excerpt… WWF's mission is the conservation of nature. We work to preserve the diversity and abundance of life on Earth and the health of ecological systems by:  protecting natural areas and wild populations of plants and animals, including endangered species;  promoting sustainable approaches to the use of renewable natural resources; and  promoting more efficient use of resources and energy and the maximum reduction of pollution.

16Mod 10 Ses 2 16 USAID GREENING approach… (1)Ensure that the environmental consequences of A.I.D. financed activities are identified and considered by A.I.D….; (2) Assist developing countries to … select, implement and manage effective environmental programs; (3) Identify impacts resulting from A.I.D.'s actions upon the environment… (4) Define environmental limiting factors that constrain development…

17Mod 10 Ses 2 17 MERCY CORPS GREENING approach… We have a green team and this helps push forward carbon footprint mitigation, video conferencing, and linking expense claims to carbon costs. The green team “volunteers” find it relatively easy to point to better energy behaviors, which seem to be particularly well adopted when linked to cost savings. Dr. Jim Jarvie Director - Climate Change, Environment and Natural Resources

18Mod 10 Ses 2 18 Some Thoughts about ENERGY Conservation Management Renewable Sustainable

19Mod 10 Ses 2 Energy management is the quickest, cheapest, cleanest way to extend world energy supplies Energy management can provide four times the environmental impact of renewable energy.

20Mod 10 Ses 2 In Summary  GREENING encompasses wide variety of activities:  Recycling  Energy use  Office supplies and equipment  And MORE  An important first step is an INITIAL ASSESSMENT  Baseline data  Questionnaires  Data analysis  BENCHMARKING is a way to measure your activities (and data) against other similar organizations.

21Mod 10 Ses 2 postconflict.unep.ch/sudanreport Questions?

22Mod 10 Ses 2 BREAK!