Mediterranean Dialogue for Waste Management Governance

Programme 2014 - 2020 Mediterranean Sea Basin ENI CBC

Date of latest update: 2024-03-25

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Description (EN):

Recent research highlights the worrying environmental effects of current production and consumption patterns in the Mediterranean Sea Basin, further accelerated by climate change impacts exerted by land-use (urbanization, agricultural intensification), pollution and declining biodiversity. In such context, Med4Waste project aims to facilitate new governance models for integrated and efficient urban waste management policies across the Mediterranean strategy. The project lays on a strong and experienced partnership composed by 7 organisations from 6 Mediterranean countries and reinforced by 3 pools of associated partners and supporters from the whole basin. Moreover, it encompasses up to 8 activities oriented at building skills, planning and decision-making capabilities for Mediterranean institutions from public and private sector, and based on the most successful practices previously implemented in the region. Consequently, decision policy-makers will find a platform to promote better governance in the sustainable use of resources and management of waste, moving towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production at Mediterranean level, whilst developing joint and common policy responses.

Achievements (EN):

Med4Waste, a project that helped improve municipal waste management along the Mediterranean, comes to an end. Med4Waste promoted the utilisation and widest dissemination of successful practices and results of previously financed projects on municipal waste management. The main achievements have been the development of a MOOC with more than 200 students enrolled so far, the elaboration of a catalogue with 22 solutions on waste management, the engagement with more than 400 stakeholders, the development of more than 30 awareness rising campaigns, and the creation and/or improvement of 6 Integrated Municipal Waste Management Plans (IWMP) in 3 countries. Med4Waste comes to an end supporting and strengthening the Mediterranean regional dialogue and cooperation on sustainable waste management. Urban waste management is one of the most important and urgent challenges facing the Mediterranean region. Several factors contribute to aggravate the situation, such as population growth, increasing tourism or the absence of adequate waste management policies. In the southern and eastern Mediterranean, the challenges in this field are even more acute, in many cases due to high population pressures or the low availability of waste management infrastructures. The Med4Waste project, co-financed with European funds from the ENI CBC Med programme, has been working to facilitate new governance models for integrated and efficient urban waste management policies to help solve these issues in the Mediterranean Region. The projects funded by ENI CBC Med are designed to foster cooperation and dialogue between the participating countries, and to favour the creation of cooperation networks and knowledge exchange. The ENI CBC Med program is working on some of these challenges in waste management with a series of projects to create experiences of cooperation between countries, with emphasis on the management of organic matter, the implementation of circular economy practices, the training of citizens, and the implementation of innovative legislative tools. Med4Waste is a capitalisation project, meaning that it promotes the utilisation and widest dissemination of successful practices and results of previously financed projects. The process of capitalisation has three main steps: the identification of successful practices from other projects, the replication and reuse of those practices, and lastly the mainstreaming of said practices into public policies. One of the relevant resources is the Med4Waste Waste Management Catalogue that aimed at providing waste management experts and decision-makers in the Mediterranean region with valuable insights into the accomplishments and promising outputs of its capitalised projects. This catalogue, with more than 22 innovative solutions divided between 6 categories, serves as exemplary models for replication. This catalogue offers a comprehensive overview of the implemented activities, success stories and invaluable lessons learned. Moreover, it analyses the key enabling factors that ensure the seamless transferability of the identified outputs. To reach the second goal, two outputs have been developed, the Med4ZeroWaste & Circular Economy Course and the Mentoring Scheme. The lack of appropriate policies about waste management is often caused by a lack of access to up-to-date knowledge on the subject, both in terms of technical staff and political representatives of local governments. To help deal with this reality, the Med4Waste project developed an online course open to anyone interested in improving municipal waste management with knowledge about circular economy and the application of zero waste practices in the Mediterranean region. The course is available in English and Arabic, and always will be free for everyone interested. The course has almost 200 students enrolled so far from, and the number keeps growing every week. The Mentoring Scheme was designed to create and/or improve the integrated municipal waste management plans (IWMP) of 6 selected cities from the southern Mediterranean region (Lebanon, Jordan, and Tunisia), to help them implement tailor-made supporting actions to implement those plans; and promote the replication of successful actions being implemented in other projects from the ENI CBC Med community through a twinning and exchange program. The six cities carried out supporting actions for their IWMP such as studies on the pricing system, trainings for municipal staff, awareness campaigns, and coaching for school teachers. The operational know-how of the Med4Waste project has been used to develop a Policy Toolkit on Solid Municipal Waste Management, which contains policy recommendations and guidelines for decision makers. It synthesizes the main lessons learned from the Med4Waste activities oriented at building skills, planning, and decision-making capacities of Mediterranean municipalities and waste management practitioners, on top of the achievements and challenges of the capitalised projects, amongst other sources of knowledge. It also takes note of the state of play in municipal solid waste management in Mediterranean countries, taking account of national and local contexts and policies while also addressing the main bottlenecks. Overall leading to policy recommendations for national, regional, and local authorities seeking to enhance sustainable waste management and specifically its organic component. To disseminate all this information, more than 30 different awareness rising campaigns have been carried out. One of the more impactful ones is the development of a videogame to increase awareness and knowledge about waste management amongst young people in the Mediterranean region. The videogame, named Eco-Builder, incorporates knowledge from the successful practices in its design, and there are PC, Android, and iOS versions available .

Website: https://www.enicbcmed.eu/projects/Med4Waste

Expected Results (EN):

1 Mediterranean Business Platform. 1 Waste Management Policy toolkit. 48 jobs resulting from the implementation of 6 Integrated Municipal Waste Management Plans. 18 Med4Waste awareness campaigns. 8 initiatives oriented at building skills, planning and decision-making capabilities for public and private Mediterranean institutions.

Expected Outputs (EN):

3.1 - O. 3.1-Waste Management Case Studies Catalogue. 3.2 - O. 3.2-Med4Waste awareness campaign. 4.1 - O. 4.1-MED4Waste Capacity Building programme. 4.2 - O. 4.2-Integrated Municipal Waste Management Plans. 4.3 - O. 4.3-MED4Waste Business Platform. 5.1 - O. 5.1-Med4Waste Policy toolkit. 5.2 - O. 5.2-Med4Waste Capitalisation Conferences.

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Governance, partnership Waste and pollution

Thematic Objective: Environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation

Partners (7)

Lead Partner: Fundació Universitària Balmes (Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya)

Department: Centre Tecnològic BETA

Address: Perot Rocaguinarda 17, , 8500 Vic, Spain

Legal status: n/a

Website: https://www.uvic.cat/

Total budget: EUR 164 361.95

ENI budget: EUR 147 925.76

Union Méditerranéenne des Confédérations d’Entreprises

Name: Union Méditerranéenne des Confédérations d’Entreprises

Department: International Projects

Address: Rue des Emeraudes, Résidence Zarrad2, Les Berges du Lac 2, 1053 Tunis, Tunisia

Legal status: n/a

Website: http://www.businessmed-umce.org

Total budget: EUR 174 624.00

ENI budget: EUR 157 161.60

الجامعة الأمركية في بيروت

Name: الجامعة الأمركية في بيروت

Department: Environment and Sustainable Development Unit (ESDU)

Address: Bliss Street, P.O.BOX 11 0236, 11072020 Beirut, Lebanon

Legal status: n/a

Website: http://www.aub.edu.lb

Total budget: EUR 148 355.50

ENI budget: EUR 133 519.95

COSPE – Cooperazione per lo Sviluppo dei Paesi Emergenti

Name: COSPE – Cooperazione per lo Sviluppo dei Paesi Emergenti

Department: n/a

Address: Via Slataper, 10, 50134 Firenze, Italy

Legal status: n/a

Website: http://www.cospe.org

Total budget: EUR 134 072.07

ENI budget: EUR 120 664.86

جمعية إدامة للطاقة والمياه والبيئة

Name: جمعية إدامة للطاقة والمياه والبيئة

Department: n/a

Address: 1st floor, 8- Yousef El Sukkar Street, 11831 Amman, Jordan

Legal status: n/a

Website: http://www.edama.jo

Total budget: EUR 154 561.50

ENI budget: EUR 139 105.35

Associació MedCities

Name: Associació MedCities

Department: n/a

Address: C/ 62, number 16-18, 8040 Barcelona, Spain

Legal status: n/a

Website: http://www.medcities.org

Total budget: EUR 192 969.42

ENI budget: EUR 173 672.48

Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development

Name: Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development

Department: n/a

Address: Kyrristou 12,, 10556 Athens, Greece

Legal status: n/a

Website: http://www.mio-ecsde.org

Total budget: EUR 141 710.80

ENI budget: EUR 127 539.72

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Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises

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Balmes University Foundation (University of Vic – Central University of Catalunya)

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American University of Beirut

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COSPE - Cooperation for the development of Emerging Countries

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EDAMA Association for Energy, Water and Environment

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MedCities Association

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Project name (EN): Mediterranean Dialogue for Waste Management Governance

Project acronym: Med4Waste

Project start date: 2021-10-01

Project end date: 2023-09-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 110 655.24

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 999 589.71

Co-financing sources:

ENPI/ENI/NDICI: Amount, EUR 999 589.71.

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2014 - 2020 Mediterranean Sea Basin ENI CBC

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2024-02-09

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

80 / 80 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

610 / 610 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.enicbcmed.eu), or a website directly linked from it, on 2024-02-28. Fields project name (from 3 projects) translated from French into English using the European Commission's eTranslation machine translation service.

The projects which fields include an eTranslation English text are the ones with the following acronyms: RESMYLE, OENOMED and RE-MED.

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