Introduction

The Gov4GreenMed project, co-funded by the European Union through the Interreg NEXT MED program, aims to develop territorial participatory methodologies to strengthen municipal and food solid waste management policies and practices. The project will also develop a framework for participatory collaboration for waste management.

Gov4GreenMed includes a total of 6 partners that are UVic-UCC BETA Technology Center (as lead partner of the project) and MedCities in Catalonia, the Cooperation for the Development of Countries in Emergency Situations (COSPE) in Italy, the International Center for Technologies and the Environment of Tunis (CITET) in Tunisia, Future Pioneers for Empowering Communities’ Members in the Environmental and Educational Fields (FPEC) in Jordan, and the Antalya Metropolitan Municipality (AMM) in Türkiye.

The project will test participatory methodologies through five pilot actions in different Mediterranean municipalities such as Mancomunitat la Plana (Catalonia), Kumluka (Turkey), Nabeul (Tunisia), Scandicci (Italy) and As-Salt (Jordan), and each will address specific local problems in municipal waste management issues.

Objectives

Design territorial participatory methodologies to make these processes possible, implementing them in five pilot actions in municipalities of Spain, Italy, Türkiye, Jordan and Tunisia, to ensure efficient cooperation between local public authorities and various stakeholders.

Specific Objectives

• To develop and implement inclusive local governance models with participatory approaches and build capacities of public authorities and stakeholders for the design of public services on solid and food waste management to support the green transition of Mediterranean municipalities.
• To develop and implement inclusive local governance models with participatory approaches and build capacities of public authorities and stakeholders for the design of public services on solid and food waste management to support the green transition of Mediterranean municipalities. 5 new local participatory governance models designed in the multi-stakeholder consultation spaces in each pilot and increased capacities of at least 30 public authorities and local stakeholders. Up to 390.000 citizens can benefit from these results.

MedCities’ role

MedCities is responsible for the implementation phase of pilot actions and will coordinate the development of the multi-stakeholder consultation spaces in the above-mentioned selected municipalities, while the rest of the implementing partners will accompany their assigned pilot territory during the whole process. MedCities will also organise study visits in order to gain knowledge and learn from similar experiences. Finally, drawing on its experience in other projects, the association will also organize a transnational capitalization event to disseminate and promote the adoption of the methodology for participatory governance models of Gov4GreenMed by other municipalities.

Antalya (Türkiye) is a project partner and Nabeul (Tunisia) and As Salt (Jordan) as pilot territories

SDGs aligned

SDGs 10, 11, 16 and 17.