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The air quality in Bucharest is the poorest in Europe, being the city with the highest social cost per capita per year, a cost associated with health problems caused by pollution.
The action for clean air project aims at strengthening democratic culture and civic awareness, through the participation of citizens in projects to improve air quality in Bucharest and in decision-making processes at the local level, by supporting 3 public policies. The project activities will lead to an increased involvement of citizens in communities, by carrying out three projects to identify and pilot local solutions to improve air quality, by three local initiative groups/small NGOs in Bucharest, coordinated by our organizations. The 3 initiatives will be implemented, analyzed and promoted in communities, with the direct participation of the citizens and local public authorities or institutions. In the same time, will be increased the level of citizens involvement in decision-making processes at local level, by promoting at the level of local public authorities three local public policies regarding the improvement of air quality in Bucharest. The three advocacy campaigns will include 6 meetings with local public authorities, 12 requests for public information, 3 advocacy plans. The local initiative groups are the main target group in the implementation of the project. We aim for an information and awareness campaign that will reach 100,000 citizens, at least 100 people consulted about the 3 initiatives and over 60 people present at the project’s events.