Geographic Area:

Governorate of Cairo

Area of Development:

Social and human development

Sector:

Poverty Alleviation

Executive body:

DGCS

Institutional counterpart:

International Center for the Environment and Development

Other funding parties:

-

Beneficiaries:

Traditional waste collectors (Zabbalin)

Period of implementation:

2003 - 2005

Amount and nature of the funds:

294,000 € grant through the debt swap

Type of intervention:

Capacity building, training, occupational development

Objective:

Integrating the the semi-formal community-based sector of recyclers in Cairo (known as Zabbaliin) in the new management systems of urban solid wastes

Description of the project:

The project intends to integrate the sector of urban solid waste collecting in the new system of collecting and recycling led by international companies in the city of Cairo promoting new technologies for the small and medium enterprises of recyclers and safeguarding the occupational, production and income levels of the community.