Enda Magreb
Dr. Magdi IBRAHIM
Regional coordination.
196, quartier O.L.M., Rabat-Souissi
Marocco
Tel : (212-7) 75.64.14 / 15
Fax : (212-7) 75.64.13
e-mail : endamag@mail.sis.net.ma

 

Local Environmental Initiative Support Project - PILE (Enda Maghreb)

In partnership with the REFA (Evaluation-Training-Action Network for community management of urban wastes in Morocco), this project supports a series of Moroccan associations working in the urban environment. Community waste management systems will be set up, income-generating activities will be implemented, sanitation infrastructures and green spaces will be created, and training programmes will reinforce community organisations and municipalities.

History of the project

During the first phase of the programme, Enda Maghreb served as an information focal point.
The team also supported a series of Moroccan associations working on urban environmental issues, as well as municipalities who were helped in the elaboration of projects, the implementation of projects already financed, and the training of municipal and associative members.

A network was slowly established, under the name of REFA (Réseau Evaluation Formation Action pour la gestion communautaire des dÈchets urbains au Maroc, or Evaluation-Training-Action Network for community management of urban wastes in Morocco). This network has come to include some ten local and intermediary associations, and fifteen resource persons (municipal and provincial technicians, and members of several ministries dedicated to environmental problems), as well as technical and superior training organisations and experts from the private sector.

Specific objectives

- To eliminate hazards caused by open-air drainage and neighbouring uncontrolled domestic waste dumps;
- To eliminate daily problems of water drainage for target households;
- To market wastes (composting and recycling of solid wastes);
- To reduce child diarrhoea;
- To offer shantytown dwellers the opportunity for leisure and relaxation in their immediate neighbourhood;
- To strengthen grassroots organisations.

Resources

Human:
- 1 co-ordinator (expatriate associative executive);
- 1 junior engineer;
- 1 secretarial assistant.

Physical:
- Materials and equipment, services (terracing, transport...), exchanges with the experience from Cairo (APE), selected by the Habitat II ì Best Practices î programme.

Activities

* Support by the REFA:
- Punctual technical support;
- Permanent follow-up/evaluation of field projects;
- Training workshops;
- Production of educational tools;
- Production of a final evaluation document;
- Karyan El Oued project;
- Training of local artisans;
- Purchase of raw materials for primary drainage;
- Construction of primary drainage and connections;
- Construction of secondary and tertiary drainage, with individual connections;
- Construction of a controlled waste dump;
- Creation of green spaces.

* Khemisset project:
- Creation of a working committee and definition of a programme on information, awareness and training;
- Sensitisation of inhabitants to household sorting of domestic wastes;
- Supply of households with ì fermentiscible î dust-bins;
- Sensitisation of inhabitants to the use of domestic waste dump sites;
- Construction of intermediary waste dump sites for domestic use;
- Implementation of a new waste-removal programme;
- Creation of a GIE (Economic-Interest Group) for the door-to-door collection of waste using horse-drawn carts (and a remunerated cart driver) for households far from the waste dumps.

* Hay Abi Regreg project:
- Choice of a waste collection system;
- Information and awareness-raising activities;
- Ordering and installation of equipment;
- Planning of the area surrounding the container site;
- Testing of new waste collection methods and implementation of a definite system.

Expected results

- Implementation of a community system for waste collection;
- Job creation through, among others, marketing of wastes (compost...);
- Establishment of permanent infrastructures for drainage of waste and rain waters;
- Creation of green spaces;
- Strengthening of grassroots organisations and municipalities through training programmes.