SCOW final conference
The Final Conference of the SCOW project was on the 1st and 2nd of December 2015 by HWE, at Ramallah, Mövenpick Hotel.
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The agenda of the Final Conference
08.30 - 09.00 Registration
09.00-10.00 - Session 1: Opening remarks
Moderator: Khaled Rajab, HWE
09.05 - 09.15 Palestinian Environmental Quality Authority (EQA)
09.15 - 09.25 Ministry of Agriculture
Office of the European Union (EU) Representative- Mr Paolo Curradi, Head of Section -Water and Land Development (Confirmed).
09.25 - 09.40 Local Partners (Ramallah municipality; AL Itehad municipality; and Jericho municipality)
09.40 - 09.50 Salvador Rueda, Director of BCNecologia
09.50 - 10.00 Imad Masri, HWE Chairman of the BoD
10.00-10.45 Session 2: Introduction
Moderator: Qasem Abdo
10.00 - 10.20 Biowaste Management in the Mediterranean shore (Policies, objectives, drivers, models, compost needs, etc.). Michele Giavini, SCOW expert collaborator, Italian Composting Association/ARSambiente
10.20 - 10.40 SCOW Project presentation (objectives, tasks, main results and public outputs). Gemma Nohales, BCNecologia
11:00 – 11:45 coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 Session 3: SCOW project Partners’ experiences and results
The session will include presentations or video by Partners: Catalonia, Genoa, Malta, Upper Galilee, Corsica as well as about Project Monitoring and results
Presentation of the project implication and results in Palestine
13:00 – 14:00 lunch break
14:00 – 15:00 Session 4: Biowaste management and composting for the benefit of agriculture
Moderator: Hussain Abu Oun, Middle JSC
The Green House Gases Inventory of Palestine ,solid waste emissions and composting as a potential mitigation measure. Fawzi Abdo, UNDP
Efficient models and technologies for biowaste prevention, management and composting. Ramon Plana, SCOW external expert.
Compost quality, marketing and application. Massimo Centemero, Director of Italian
Composting Association and Vice-president of European Compost Network
Current practices and challenges related to the use of compost in Palestine. Qasim Abdo, HWE External Expert
National policies and guidelines related to production, management and use of compost. Imad Ghunmeh and Hazem Yasin, Ministry of Agriculture
15:00 – 15:15 coffee break
15:15 – 16:00 Session 5: Closing session
Manifesto for proper waste management and Med Compost Network. Marta Vila, BCNecolgia
Panel with selected key stakeholders to discuss:
Moderator: Imad Al Baba
- Future of Biowaste management and policies in the Mediterranean
- Lessons learned from the project
- Potential for sustainability and replicability of biowaste management models
- Next steps and recommendations for future initiatives.
- ENI projects and other cooperation programmes.
By: Gemma Nohales, BCNecologia;Abdel Jabbar Abu Halaweh, JSC of Jericho; Yasir Dwaik, JSC of Hebron and South West Bank.
Concluding remarks and event closure by the HWE