URBAN-WASTE Mobilization and Mutual Learning Plan

The URBANWASTE Mobilization and Mutual Learning orients and defines the actions to empower stakeholders and citizens towards the development and the implementation of the eco-innovative and gender-sensitive waste management strategies and to promote those towards decision makers and relevant stakeholders. The MMLP guides the consultation process and structure the way feedback is provided: this results in a new concept of participatory and science-based decision making and planning for waste management. The MMLP defines specific actions to be performed and propose instruments to be used to ensure stakeholders engagement, facilitate an inclusive and constructive dialogue and ensure processing of the feedbacks. The MMLP have been built around the concept of the Communities of Practice (CoPs), tested under the BRIDGE project20. CoPs are usually a spontaneous phenomenon among people who share common interests and passion who meet to learn from each other. CoPs will be built in each URBANWASTE pilot case and will have 4 well-defined and compulsory meetings opportunities proposed by the local municipalities in different forms (big events, workshops, round tables, working groups). The role of the municipalities, supported by task leades and the guidelines provided in the MMLP, will be to provide inputs for discussion - such as the results of the urban metabolism and behavioural analysis, the presentation of best ptractices - and to guide those towards the development of eco-innovative strategies and selected measures. The MMLP also identifies specific roles within the staff of the cities (CoP coordinator) and set a defined timeline to implement the actions. The calendar and the topics of the mutual learning events have also been included in this deliverable