The "Coproduction of Cleanliness" project was launched on October 22nd in Mohammedia at the prefecture headquarters. It is a programme that aims to improve the living environment of the citizen while involving all social components: associations, co-ownership syndics, schools, mosques, health services, the delegated waste collection company and competent services, etc.
This project is launched by the local section of the Association of Teachers of Life and Earth Sciences (Aesvt), Residents' Associations, the commune and local authorities. Thanks to this initiative, target neighbourhoods will be transformed and above all cleaned. A new concept of waste management will be installed there. The experience consists of improving the aesthetics and cleanliness of living spaces, strengthening the values of solidarity and community life, mobilising and coordinating the interventions of the various local actors and partners and following the stages of creating sorting systems at the source, collection and sustainable valorisation of household waste. Nevertheless, the success of this promising experience remains dependent on the effective involvement of all development actors and the local population, which is a main partner in this programme.
Over time, the "Coproduction of Cleanliness" project will participate in strengthening education and awareness-raising actions on the environment for the promotion of waste sorting and cleanliness in neighbourhoods. Conducted around the theme "Clean Neighbourhood: right and obligation", this initiative will allow citizens to live together in a clean space. Besides Mohammedia, this project which will last 4 years is launched in 21 other Moroccan cities, 90 neighbourhoods and 100 schools. At each stage, a partnership and cooperation agreement is signed between the various local actors concerned with waste management at the city level and who will form a local project steering committee which will be in charge of programming and implementing the project's activities as well as its monitoring.
It should be recalled that this project is part of the agreement signed between the Association of Teachers of Life and Earth Sciences and the delegated ministry in charge of the Environment within the framework of the National Household and Similar Waste Programme (PNDM), with the support of the Drosos Foundation.
