Implement registration and licensing for zabbaleen
Provide training for zabbaleen in negotiating skills, and in accounting and tax procedures
Negotiate with municipalities and multinational companies for new contracts for Zabaleen - 1378 traditional garbage collectors in their neighborhoods of Manshyet Nasser, Torra, Elmo’tamadiya, Baragiel, Ezbet El Nakhl and 15th of May“
were organized into 60 companies that specialize in cleaning and waste collection and transfer. These companies have 261 trucks
•At least 25 companies have signed contracts with municipalities at this time •The government has now recognized the importance of the new model for waste management in Greater Cairo
The government now has a database of the Zabaleen and their companies to assist it in any future contract acquisition. An example of a Tax Card for an Established HUA's contract to collect in Elkhosos city Cleaning Company Cleaning company workers dressed in uniforms One car cleaning companies separated into two parts (organic, non‐organic)
Through the new model of solid waste management supported by the Ministry of Environment, each company has a uniform and each car is divided into two parts, the front part is blue for the non- organic waste and the back in green for the organic waste
The new system is being piloted in the districts of Dokki and Agouza and soon in Imbaba district, in Giza governorate
Establish a trade organization/union that represents members of zabbaleen community
Provide training on advocacy for trade union staff and representatives of the zabbaleen
Provide awareness raising activities on the benefits of organizing and partnering. The objective of the existence of the syndicate Forming a national syndicate will help us to negotiate contract terms with government officials.
1 - The union contracted all the heads of the living governorates of Cairo, Giza ,Qalyubia and Aswan officially as responsible for any formal contracts in the field of collection, transport, sorting and recycling. 2 - The union notifies officials that it supports the new model of management, which is sponsored by EEAA with the Spirit of Youth Association. 3 - The union was able to foster a public opinion that supports the cause of the Zabaleen through a series of meetings with the press. 4 - The union adopts the responsibility of educating citizens about the importance of separating trash into two parts (organic, non-organic) 5 - Independent trade unions count so far in its membership nearly 8,000 members in 4 branches for the syndicate in ( Cairo – Giza – Qaliubia – Aswan ).
The Trade Union title and logo Official syndicate document for Union membership printed on the Union Stamp Qaliubiya card Provide access to credit, training and technical assistance to recycling enterprises
Expand capacities of existing recylcing projects managed by NGOs to absorb new entrants, particularly youth
Provide financial literacy and legal counseling to community members in 6 zabbaleen neigborhoods
Form linkages and/or integrate with large industrial entities like cooperatives to increase competitivness of small workshops. Working to try to register and formalize about 50 workshops Many authorities have granted their approvals, including the Environment, Investment, and others . Now only one approval is pending, which is the one of the local municipality, Cairo Government, the Ministry of Local Development
The approval of the Ministry of Environment to license recycling workshops Investment Minister inaugurates workshop with Distribution of HSE tools to the workshops a number of the owners of 150 recycling workshops Devise and institute new methods and processes for collection
Work with municipal authorities to create ordinance for city-wide source-segregation
Implement Public Awareness and Information Dissemination Scheme Partnerships is very important
15 of the 32 districts were defined to begin working in. The source segregation and integrated model for managing wastes of the City were disseminated. In order to comprehensively cover all residents in all 15 districts, each district was mapped and divided into sub tracts or sheyakhat. Formal protocols of cooperation were signed with the NGOs to provide 50 volunteers for each district to be trained on disseminating the source segregation model for household waste. Implementation plans were developed with each districts' volunteers to cover all residents in one year.
Public Panel for Disseminating the Sorting at Source Culture in Each District
A steering committee was formed in 15 districts in Cairo. Each included the district chairman or his representative, social solidarity director, AEA director, the youth and sports center director, the general union for scouts' representative in each district and 7 active NGOs interested in the wastes recycling issue. The committees undertake the following 1. Develop an integrated plan for raising awareness of the district on sorting the garbage from the source into two parts: organic and non-organic materials. 2. Raise awareness of garbage collectors of the importance of collecting sorted garbage. 3. Encourage garbage collectors to register collection companies. 4. Monitor impact of awareness campaign on the district sheyakhat. 5. Provide solutions for e problems faced by volunteers and district awareness raising team. 6. Review contracts proposed for newly formed companies prior to their signature Outcomes: 1 - Based on the protocol signed with the General Authority for Adult Education was number 680 teacher training on the methodology of separation of garbage from upstream, where the teachers educating number 16295 schools and study in adult education classes. 2 - Based on the protocol signed with the Ministry of Education and awareness was number 101 588 students in public schools. 3 - Based on the protocol signed with the Ministry of Youth and Sports was number 5935 awareness of the beneficiaries of youth centers. 4 - The number of beneficiaries of awareness seminars which have been implemented with partner organizations targeted neighborhoods 81999. 5 - The number of housing units that have been sensitized on the separation of garbage from upstream during the year 298 236 units. 6 - Total number of people who have been sensitized to separate the trash from upstream during the year 894 735. 7 - Total been sensitized to separate garbage from upstream in Cairo during the year 1,398,788 target.
8 - The number of protocols that have been signed with partners educate the population to separate garbage from upstream protocol 28 . Capacity Building for Project Team
Using active learning strategies in 680 classrooms among a total of 16295 students (males and females) and monitor implementation with the AEA Cairo office. •The Project team received capacity building on how to deal with government and non governmental organizations, volunteers, steering committees. Topics included: •Planning skills •Government relations •Time management •Team building •communication skills Training volunteers from neighborhoods on the importance of separating garbage.
Now as a team to foster the culture of waste separation at source of slum which is in the new system
Literacy training teachers on the methodology of separation of garbage from the source Integrated model for the management of solid waste
Regularization garbage treatment the collectors Awareness the population Treatment of organic Transfer stations to sort inorganic waste and Establishment a about the importance of waste waste waste separation at source disposal methods national cleaning companies (organic ‐ and Inorganic)
‐ All the non‐organic These companies will transfer of organic • ‐these stations The sorting begins at the waste will be collect waste from the waste collected to one are privately household level and transferred to in any of front door of the of these points: owned and divided into organic and points of recycling in 46 apartment and will be - Fertilizer factories. appoints its non‐organic cities, to be processed - Pig farms director separated waste in private back into raw materials - Biogas / treatment responsible for cars to the company's into This occurs through that can then be sold to plants its management. organic and non‐organic public awareness factories and campaigns manufacturers inside These companies (Methane gas) and outside Egypt. need government (TV footage ‐ text ads ‐ ‐ Must be these contracts include social networks) ‐The recycling stations, 10 km - workshops rotate to most areas of ‐ Ensure that the of the benefits of recycling 80% of waste waste collection equipment provided by separation that preserves will reach this figure of the Government the environment leads to 90%: 95% and the increase the percentage ‐ Collector garbage is proportion of this of waste recycled waste non‐recyclable not responsible for 5%: 10% transferred to sweeper Preserve the worker,s ‐This cars comes health of diseases during dumpsite or the ‐ A fair fee for service to register the sorting process and landfill. combination weighing the saves him a decent life amount of waste - collected organic Division the district to waste and leave smaller areas so that it in the station better managed by argument. companies