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Innovative social housing and green procurement. How do they relate?

April 24, 2019 por Luz Fernández - Esperanza González-Mahecha - Clementine Tribouillard Leave a Comment


Access to adequate housing is a universal human right. That is why the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has been working in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) for many years to eliminate the housing gap through an extensive variety of options that range from direct housing construction, to support for housing social subsidies through credit lines to the development banks of the countries.

According to UN Environment supplementing the housing deficit in cities until 2020 would double the current level of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Specifically, almost a quarter of the GHGs in LAC are due to the residential sector.

In this context, sustainable social housing that improves energy efficiency and reduces the consumption of resources appears like a great solution since it allows to reduce the GHG emissions of homes, improves thermal comfort for residents, and reduces costs in water and electricity bills.

This type of housing includes intelligent designs (attention to the orientation of the property, sunlight and solar protection, thermal insulation, and ventilation), low impact materials (zero-kilometer materials, recycled, and biodegradable), and technologies to optimize the use of natural resources (photovoltaic solar panels, solar thermal collectors, low energy consumption devices, and water recycling systems).

However, despite the enormous potential of sustainable social housing, the reality is that, at the moment, there are very few examples of this type of housing in our region.

The municipality of João Pessoa, in northeastern Brazil, has proposed to take advantage of an IDB loan to change the reality of social housing in its territory as part of its “João Pessoa Sustentável” program. The program comes as an operational concretization of the strategies chosen for the city within the framework of the “Plan of Ação João Pessoa Sustentável,” developed using the methodology of the Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative (ICES).

As a first step to build sustainable social housing, a workshop was organized between technicians of the municipality, architecture studios of the region, and IDB staff where they sought to understand where the challenge lies so that social housing being built in Joao Pessoa not only includes elements of sustainability but also includes design.

And can you guess what was the result of the workshop? The answer to the challenge lies in the procurement process!

The truth is that this is not a result that surprised us at the IDB. During 2018 we published the document “Green Procurement: how to encourage green procurement practices in IDB funded projects?” In this document we highlighted the power of green procurement to achieve the expected impact of our projects and gave recommendations on how to take advantage of the programming cycle to achieve more sustainability in our projects.

Now the time has come to implement all the recommendations contained in the guide. For this, we want to take advantage of the need to build 675 housing units and we are working to do this through a purchase process that allows houses that finally incorporate elements of energy efficiency and water savings, and also have a differential design that makes people feel proud to live there.

By accompanying the municipality of João Pessoa in a different bidding process, we seek to generate inputs that in the future will allow us to replicate this process in other housing projects financed by the IDB. We hope to tell you about the progress of this joint work soon!

If you want to know more about green procurement practices click here.

 


Filed Under: Climate change

Luz Fernández

Luz es PhD en Ingeniería Ambiental por la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) con una tesis enfocada en las interacciones entre los instrumentos de mitigación de cambio climático y la reducción de la pobreza en Brasil, y tiene más de 10 años de experiencia trabajando como consultora, gestora de proyectos e investigadora en el diseño, monitoreo y evaluación de proyectos socio-ambientales y en el análisis de políticas climáticas en países en desarrollo. Luz comenzó a trabajar en el sector privado en España en una consultora enfocada en la compra venta de emisiones de CO2 bajo la directiva Europea del Comercio de Emisiones, y posteriormente fue directora en el departamento de Planificación del Instituto Dominicano de Desarrollo Integral (IDDI, una ONG local). Como parte de su trabajo doctoral, Luz ha sido profesora de posgrado en la temática de cambio climático y desarrollo, y ha trabajado como consultora e investigadora en proyectos de mitigación y adaptación al cambio climático y de gestión de residuos sólidos en Brasil. Antes de unirse al equipo del BID, Luz trabajaba como consultora para la Fundación Avina en ocho países de América Latina, coordinando un proyecto piloto sobre reciclaje inclusivo desarrollado con fondos de la Iniciativa Regional del Reciclaje (IRR), lanzada con fondos del BID y del FOMIN. Como parte del equipo de la División del Cambio Climático del BID, Luz está trabajando en el tracking del financiamiento climático de las operaciones del Grupo BID y apoya el mainstreaming de cambio climático dentro del Grupo.

Esperanza González-Mahecha

Esperanza González-Mahecha es Especialista en Energía y Cambio Climático. Actualmente trabaja en la División de Cambio Climático del BID en Washington D.C., en donde se enfoca en brindar soporte a diferentes divisiones del BID y gobiernos de América Latina y el Caribe en la planeación y ejecución de proyectos de inversión para que incluyan medidas de mitigación y adaptación al cambio climático – en línea con los compromisos institucionales del Banco y con el Acuerdo de París. Esperanza también contribuye en el diseño de estrategias de descarbonización de largo plazo y de adaptación al cambio climático para gobiernos subnacionales. Anteriormente, Esperanza hizo parte del Centro de Economía Energética y Ambiental (CENERGIA) en Río de Janeiro, donde trabajó en proyectos para el Gobierno Brasilero, UN Environment y la Embajada del Reino Unido. En su país de origen, Colombia, Esperanza asesoró a la Comisión de Regulación de Agua Potable (CRA) en las metodologías tarifarias de agua, alcantarillado y aseo, e hizo parte del equipo consultor de la Fundación Bariloche en proyectos para la Unidad de Planeación Minero-Energética y Ecopetrol. Esperanza es Economista y Especialista en Estadística de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, y tiene una Maestría y un Doctorado en Planeación Energética de la Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro. Durante su Doctorado participó del Programa Young Scientists Summer Program en IIASA (Austria) y NETEP - European Brazilian- Network on Energy Planning en la Universidade do Minho (Portugal).

Clementine Tribouillard

Clémentine Tribouillard é especialista na Divisão de Habitação e Desenvolvimento Urbano do BID no Brasil desde 2018. Ela é francesa, formada em ciências políticas, tem mestrado em Política Urbana pelo Instituto de Estudos Políticos de Paris e especialização em Sociologia Urbana pela UERJ. Clémentine trabalhou por 3 anos na Caixa Econômica Federal do Rio de Janeiro na concepção de programas de habitação social e na reabilitação de centros urbanos brasileiros, antes de trabalhar por 6 anos na África em programas de melhoria dos serviços urbanos (água, saneamento, resíduos sólidos) para vários doadores. Após o terremoto, morou no Haiti por 5 anos, trabalhando na reconstrução de bairros de baixa renda e reassentando famílias. Ela trabalhou em 35 países em planejamento urbano, desenvolvimento econômico e social, inclusão de gênero, sociedade civil e participação do setor privado. Atualmente, está liderando programas de urbanização de favelas, gestão de risco, reassentamento, habitação social e cidades inteligentes, com foco particular em questões de mudança climática e inclusão social.

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