Evaluation of the Urban Gardening Project

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Evaluation of the Urban Gardening Project: Gaza

Deadline : 5th of April

Background: Since the land available for horticulture is extremely limited in the Gaza Strip and, with the current closures and movement restrictions in place, fresh vegetables and fruits are very expensive. Concurrently, the population continues to grow at over 3% annually; putting extra strain on the resources in one of the most densely populated areas of the world.
97% of the Gaza Strip population are urban or camp dwellers, and therefore do not have access to land.
Therefore, there is a need to come up with innovative approaches to achieve optimal investment for urban agriculture modalities and to mobilize for such production patterns in the Gaza Community.
By utilizing the available open spaces around schools, universities, hospitals and backyards and top roofs of the buildings for planting and livestock production, the urban gardening approach aims at supporting productive activities that can make important contributions to resilience, dignity, improve food security and food consumption through nutritious and fresh food for vulnerable families.

The project implementation depend on the community based approach and invests in community empowerment and awareness raising, hence contributes to improve community resilience.

The evaluation is intended principally for learning and accountability purposes. It is meant to highlight strengths and weaknesses of the project and recommendations to guide future program work in this area. It is expected to generate relevant findings, lessons and recommendations to be shared with key stakeholders and used by implementing agencies to guide and inform future programming in urban gardening in Gaza.
The evaluation should be combined with a research to explore the opportunities for scaling up the urban gardening approach in Gaza. This will include researching UNRWA and ministry of education needs, interest, requirements for possible funding/scale up of the urban gardening project to UNRWA and governmental schools.

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