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Steering Committee Meetings

The Steering Committee’s role is to provide advice, ensure delivery of the project outputs and the achievement of project outcomes. … Providing advice (and sometimes making decisions) about changes to the project as it develops. The Steering Committee provides support, guidance, and oversight of progress. The Steering Committee is scheduled...

Establishment of the Take-Back Sub Committee

The Take-back sub-committee was established under the National E-waste Committee headed by the Ministry of Environment, with a focus on the analysis of the economic conditions and possible financing mechanisms for the Egyptian context including the financial implications. As input for the sub-committee on financing mechanisms and recycling targets, the...

Cooperation with the Electronic Research Institute (ERI)

ERI, was established by the Presidential Decree No. 38 in 1989. It is one of the specialized institutes affiliated to the Ministry of Scientific Research. The activities of ERI include theoretical and applied research in the fields of electronics, communications, computers, and informatics. Catering scientific consultancy services to the industrial...

Cooperation with the Ministry of Higher Education

Two meetings were convened with the Ministry of Higher Education, one was online and the second at the premises of the Ministry. CEDARE indicated the importance of training that the project provided in the first phase and how it was targeting new ventures and starting an e-waste recycling business. Additionally,...

Support to Formal E-waste Recyclers

The SRI project, funded by the Swiss Government who signed an agreement with the Ministry of Communication & Information Technology (MCIT), are working under the presidential initiative of digital transformation to utilize e-waste recycling primary to refurbish used equipment that would serve the initiative in-line with safe recycling of e-waste...

Launch of E-KHORDA II – Entrepreneurs E-Waste Program

The Center for Environment & Development for the Arab Region & Europe (CEDARE) in cooperation with Electronic Research Institute (ERI) has launched E-Khorda II program for green entrepreneurs in the E-waste Management sector: collection, dismantling, refurbishing, and metal extraction or any innovative ideas. This program is within the Sustainable Recycling...

“Bus Systems & Energy Transition: Socially Responsible Shifts Towards Cleaner Buses in Egypt” Roundtable

On December 8th, 2022, the UN-HABITAT Egypt Country Office hosted and co-organized in cooperation with CEDARE & FES Egypt Office a roundtable workshop titled “Bus Systems & Energy Transition: Socially Responsible Shifts Towards Cleaner Buses in Egypt”. The meeting brought together experts and key players in the public transport industry, specifically Bus Systems, for...

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