Geographic Area: Minia Governorate

Area of Development: Control and sustainable management of the environmental, artistic and cultural heritage

Sector: Environmental sustainability

Executive body: DGCS

Institutional counterpart: Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency

Other funding parties: -

Beneficiaries: Local community and personnel of the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency

Period of implementation: 2003 - 2006

Amount and nature of the funds:940,000 € grant through the debt swap and bilateral channel

Type of intervention: Technical assistance, capacity building, training

Objective: Management of solid wastes

Description of the project:

The project intends to introduce in the governorate of Minia an environmental-friendly system of planning, management and monitoring of solid waste.

Is a component of the Second Phase of the Environmental Program.