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47 Information: Fax: +33 4 93 65 44 02 - E-mail: cooperation@iowater.org THE MEDITERRANEAN In Algeria, the waste management strategy is included in the PROGDEM (Household Waste Management Program), in which significant investments have been made. However, the human, institutional and administrative capacities to implement integrated and job-creating management remain limited and need to be improved. In this context, many projects have been carried out by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) for many years. These projects focus on capacity building to implement integrated approaches to waste management and support local authorities in the process, through relevant national institutions. As part of a project entitled “Waste Manage- ment and Circular Economy”, carried out in three municipalities, GIZ entrusted IOWater with the task of helping in the development of a capacity building strategy by analyzing the partners’ needs. This support was carried out in a participatory way, focusing on 3 levels: “society”, “organi- zation”, “individual”, so as to propose a global strategy taking into account the constraints related to the general context, the organizational and operating conditions of the partners and the conditions of exercise and the skills of the field stakeholders involved. The project partners were successively met, including the National Waste Agency, the EPIC ECOSET, the Mayor of El Eulma Municipality and the National Environmental Training Center. Each interview aimed to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for each organization. These interviews helped to highlight the stakeholders’ motivation. Potential improve- ments in proximity management were under- lined. It is necessary to upgrade the managers’ abilities as well as those of the field stakeholders. 4 Algeria Waste management and circular economy Interview with the ECOSET team after a visit to SETIF’s landfill and sorting center A new partnership between IOWater and Chiali Services Based in Algeria, Chiali Services Spa, a 100% subsidiary of the Chiali Group, has been active for several years in the field of engineering and in the implementation of projects on public works, hydraulics, irrigation and environment. In order to further develop the skills of its personnel in the water and sanitation sectors, Chiali Services has called on IOWater to train some of its teams on the design and sizing of activated sludge treat- ment plants in Sidi Bel Abbès in 2017. This first session should be followed by a future training course on the hydraulics of drinking water supply systems and on the handling of hydraulic equipment used in DWS as part of a long-term and sustainable partnership between IOWater and the Chiali Group, through the “Chiali Academy”, its subsidiary unit in charge of the training activity. 4 The trainees group of Chiali Services FRom one conTinenT To anoTHeR The News N° 28