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Integrated
Wastewater Management Policies & Technologies For Marginal Communities In
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Capacity Building
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In order to build the capacity among the
public on different aspects of participatory development communication, the
community members, citizen advisory group, and some NGO’s and CBO’s member
staffs from the Project area enrolled in a four days training workshop.
The training workshop took place at Umm Al-Quttayn Social and Cultural Club
in the study area. The Training done in cooperation with international
expert, representing CARE International in Jordan/CARE Australia. In
addition, both male and school students received several lectures that
focused on the environmental issues in their region. Special focus was placed
on the benefits of the reuse of the reclaimed greywater. In
order to activate the feminine participation in fields related to the research
project, a women committee was formulated in Abu Al-Farth village. The
Committee consists of six active and committed women who strongly believe in
the importance of managing the greywater practices to develop their
community. This is aiming at enhancing awareness about greywater management
issues among the housewives in the local community as well as playing a
leadership role in following up the greywater treatment units that will be
constructed and operated at later stages of the project. The project team
meet regularly with the committee, some of the hygienic practices that lead
to the production of less contaminated greywater were introduces, as well as
the use of environmental-friendly detergent. The
committee had participated in a visit to the greywater collection and
sampling activities in Abu Al-Farth. Women gave their perceptions about the
environmental conditions of these tanks such as the presence or absence of
odors, the cleanness of the collection tanks and the frequency of pumping off
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