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Capacity building in solid waste management (SWM) is a continuous need in Mexico. Even though the country has a lot of well qualified professionals, few of them are working in SWM and fewer still in the public sector. Urban SWM is, by law, the task of the municipalities, in which the local government and also most of the decision makers in the administrations are changing at least every three years. This affects strongly the sustainability in the sector. On the other side there is an increasing demand for adequate SWM services to achieve the standards of the new national legislation. In order to address the lack of appropriately qualified people in the different departments of the municipalities linked to the sector, the Mexican National Environmental Ministry SEMARNAT and GTZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) prepared and implemented a capacity building programme in SWM. Started in 2004, this programme has already shown direct impacts on the target group. Other Latin-American countries have shown interest in participating in the network that has developed around the programme. In some of them, training in SWM has already been provided. |
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