Enda-Caribbean
M. Ernesto CRUZ
Regional coordination.
Apdo 3370 Santo Domingo
Republic of Dominica)
Tel : ( 809) 549.46.36 et 566.83.21
Fax : 541.32.59
e-mail :enda.caribe@codetel.net.do
URL :http://funredes.org/endacaribe
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The project helps grassroots organisations to implement community-based environmental management schemes. Training programmes teach the population recycling and market gardening, two waste management sites and community information centres will be set up, and partnership networks will be consolidated through workshops and bilateral exchanges.
History and achievements
The project of Enda Caribe began in February 1995 and has progressed in the
following directions:
- On an institutional level, the Preceup reinforced community organisations
(youth, women...) and strengthened their credibility vis-‡-vis the public
and religious authorities. Discrete relations established between municipal
authorities were formalised through agreement protocols and commitments in the
field of waste transport and the financing of waste dumps.
- Through the community sanitation operations, many family or community dumps, which provoke continuous pollution and health hazards, have disappeared. As a result, the quality of habitats and public and collective places such as streets has improved. The alternative waste collection scheme put in place reduced the household expenditure of time and money for the evacuation of domestic wastes.
Specific objectives
- To reinforce and develop community services for waste and water management;
- To train community leaders in urban environmental issues: water treatment
techniques and solid waste management;
- To raise awareness and educate the population to environmental issues;
- To establish exchanges of experience within the country and in the Caribbean.
Resources
- Promotional materials: flyers, brochures, wall painting, book.
- Equipment: offices, tables, scales, recipients and containers, vehicles.
- Human: 1 co-ordinator, 2 technicians, 1 engineer, 1 archivist, 1 focal point
manager.
Main Activities
- Perpetuate community activities in the management of solid wastes. Selection
and implementation of alternative technologies for water treatment. Shared management
(community, municipality) of infrastructures;
- Establishment of two waste dumps and information centres, managed by community
groups;
- Creation of micro-enterprises (and jobs) in waste recuperation and commercialisation;
- Creation of training modules in:
* Water treatment (courses offered in three training centres);
* Reduction, reuse and recycling of wastes.
- Organisation of a national seminar on the recycling of solid wastes;
- Counselling to groups and institutions in the country, in partnership with
the municipality;
- Documentation of the exchange process;
- Implementation and improvement of tools used to raise environmental awareness.
Expected results
- Solid waste management;
- Management and commercialisation of wastes deposited in the two community
waste-dumps;
- Installation and/or development of micro-enterprises associated with the collection
and management of solid organic and inorganic wastes in the community and neighbouring
areas;
- Technical, administrative and social training of those in charge of the infrastructures
and associated activities;
- Environmental education;
- Launching of education campaigns for the reduction, reuse and recycling of
wastes;
- Implementation of various means of communication at the local, community and
national level, such as newspapers, mural paintings, posters...
- Liquid waste management;
- Measurement of water quality in training centres and in the community;
- Selection and implementation of alternative systems for water treatment;
- Technical, administrative and social training of those in charge of the infrastructures
and associated activities;
- Partnerships with the municipality;
- Selection and follow-up of permanent co-ordination mechanisms with the municipality;
- Exchanges at a national level and in the Caribbean, organisation of a national
seminar on the recycling of solid wastes.
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