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3.6.5. Training Course Programme ISWA/UN-Habitat Intensifying the Cooperation with other International Organisations was an important goal ISWA set itself for this year. One of the projects where ISWA successfully achieved this aim was with a tailor made training course programme for Iraqi engineers, based on a cooperation agreement ISWA concluded with UN-Habitat in March 2011. In April and May 2011 the ISWA General Secretariat organised a comprehensive training course programme for the staff of Iraqi government authorities at the ISWA headquarters in Vienna. The objective of the cooperation project was to contribute to improved public health and environmental conditions in Iraqi cities by assisting the Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works and some selected Governorates with the development and implementation of new waste management policies and programmes. The project focused on providing technical assistance and enhancing the skills and capacity of the Iraqi trainees. In total sixty Iraqi engineers took this tailor made training course programme, which has been organised as a well balanced mixture of in house lessons – seven different trainers covered the whole range of different waste management issues – and site visits. Three one week training courses have been held for groups of twenty persons each, and according to the feedback of the participants and the representatives of our cooperation partner UN-Habitat it can be said that this project was a very big success. In the meantime some other organisations have already indicated interest in tailor made training course programmes made by ISWA. 26
3.6.6. ISWA/UNEP Balkan Flowers Project Another good example for intensified cooperation with other International Organisations whose goals and activities are related to ISWA’s is the so called “Balkan Flowers Project”: ISWA is currently in the early stages of a project in cooperation with the UNEP Regional Office for Europe, to develop an overview study of PET –plastic waste recycling in the South East Europe sub-region with a focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. The project also aims to explore future policy development and possible cooperation and exchange of knowledge and information through sub-regional collaboration in these three countries. 3.6.7. ISSOWAMA Consortium Project In 2010 and 2011, as a consortium partner ISWA also cooperated with other international non-profit organisations and some universities and academic institutes on a project called ISSOWAMA – Integrated Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Asia Southeast. The Balkan region has a remarkably high waste generation of PET bottles compared to many other parts of Europe; which are found floating in rivers, hanging in trees and piling up in otherwise picturesque locations – sometimes looking like bizarre flowers, which explains the project title. Some key challenges need to be overcome to promote the recycling of waste in these regions, such as an inadequate waste management system, low public awareness and an undeveloped recycling sector. Croatia is leading the way forward in this region of the Balkans, with the recent implementation of promising tools that are promoting the use of refillable bottles and collection for one way packaging. Asia is one of the world’s most densely populated regions, which results in a tremendous output of solid waste, a majority of which is poorly managed or not managed at all. Rapid urbanisation in the region is creating an increasing strain on overburdened infrastructure, as well as higher demand on limited public services. ISSOWAMA was a first step to thoroughly examining Solid Waste Management issues of eight numerously populated Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Cambodia, Thailand, China, Indonesia and the Philippines. The objective of this project has been to develop a performance assessment system for integrated management scenarios, with a central focus on the integration of sustainability aspects. Throughout this project the consortium partners have investigated and gained expertise in economic and social situations in the target region, integration of low cost community managed technologies, and institutional and socio economic constraints. As a result the consortium completed local projects in South Asia, the greater Mekong Sub-region, and South East Asia which represents nearly half of the world’s population. A special issue of Waste Management World is planned to showcase the ISSOWAMA project. 27
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