The international cities platform Connective Cities and its initiators, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the German Association of Cities (DST) and Engagement Global gGmbH / Service Agency Communities in One World (SKEW), would like to invite - in the framework of the “Municipal know-how for host communities in the Middle-East programme” - up to 4 urban practitioners from Germany to the Connective Cities Practitioners’ Workshop on Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management Solutions to be held in Kocaeli, Turkey from 04 to 06 July 2017.

Connective Cities is organizing the event in collaboration with the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) Middle East and West Asia (MEWA) section which intends to utilize the results of this workshop for future policy making.

Background

As countries urbanise, production and consumption patterns change, which in turn results in increasing amounts of waste. Thus, the global trend of urbanisation goes hand in hand with the responsibility to adequately handle growing quantities of waste.

In that regard Solid Waste Management (SWM) is an issue of high concern to cities in Turkey. In a recent survey of UCLG among their Turkish member municipalities, 91% of them revealed their actual needs in Waste Management improvement.

Municipalities are charged with collecting, sorting, recycling and landfilling solid waste. While national entities are charged to establish legal frameworks for waste management, the responsibility to provide and operate this fundamental public service rests with local governments and their public utilities.

New challenges emerged these last years with the establishment of 16 new Metropolitan Municipalities and nearly 3 million Syrian refugees currently living in Turkish cities.

Objectives and Expected Results

Acknowledging the complexity and variety of SWM practices, the workshop aims at enhancing capacities of participants to understand their local contexts and be able to choose a suitable mix from the different options available based on reliable and consistent data, identification of problems, framework conditions and respective objectives. 

With this call for participants Connective Cities is looking for 4 German municipal experts in the field of Solid Waste Management, who would be interested in sharing their experience and support the participating Turkish cities and municipalities with their challenges in this thematic area. 

<link file:3356 download file>More information: Call for participants
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Contact:

Alice Balbo: <link mail internal link in current>alice.balbo@engagement-global.de 

Silvia Boehmsdorff: <link mail internal link in current>silvia.boehmsdorff@engagement-global.de