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Applicant and implementing agency: International Center for Environment
and Development (ICED)
Total
project budget: LE 2.198.200 (USD 399.672 circa)
  The
informal sector of waste collection mainly managed by the Zabaleen plays an important role in the national
economy. The Zabaleen waste collection and recycling system can
reprocess about 80% of urban solid waste (considering that a waste
disposal company can usually recycle between 20% and 25% of collected
solid waste).
Moreover, this massive activity
generates both employment and income but, despite the utility of the
whole system, Zabaleen working
conditions are still poor, unhealthy and unsafe. Therefore, the proposed
initiative aims at improving working conditions for Zabaleen community
in Cairo and creating new jobs, through technology and manufacturing
process updates.
The project,
contributing to the poverty alleviation in Cairo has so far achieved
encouraging results. Among them is worth mentioning the creation of
369 new jobs created ; the upgrade, through the provision
of newly designed machines, of 99 existing recycling workshops located
in the areas of Manchiet Nasser and Ezbet El Nakhal; and the equipment
of 10 maintenance workshops with different kinds of innovative machines
and plants.
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