Giza, Egypt 

Pilot 2.3 — Inequalities and environmental degradation (solid waste and water management)

 

Mansheyat Dahshur (40,000 inhabitants) is a peri-urban municipality of the Giza Governorate, in the Greater Cairo Region. It suffers from both a seriously deteriorating solid waste management system and poor waste disposal practices. In 2020, NSCE conducted a study of the solid waste situation as part of the EU-funded project Visit Badrashin.

 

The current project will build on the trust established with the regional and local authorities, and the local community, to implement the pilot co-production of an inclusive action plan to reduce water and solid waste pollution and enhance participatory initiatives.

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Topic: Environmental inequalities (Attica region, Giza governorate, Marseille)

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This pilot will explore the environmental inequalities revealed and exacerbated by industrial pollution and waste management in three urban areas. It will draw on the experience of co-production partnerships attempting to address seriously deteriorating solid waste management systems (Giza, Egypt), issues related to large open landfills (Attica, Greece). Taken together, these co-production labs offer insights into the one focused on urban local adaptation to climate-change (Marseille).