The Series of Environmental Awareness Raising Workshop in collaboration with GIZ
3 days on 17th, 20th and 21st November 2023, JICA Project Team participated in a series of workshops to raise environmental awareness among residents, students, and local authorities. The workshop is organized by the city administration, GIZ, other local authorities, a waste collection company and JICA Project Team.
The 3-day workshops were held in 5 locations with a total of 466 participants. The aim of the workshop is to raise environmental awareness of people in Siem Reap.
In each session, the environmental awareness video produced by JICA was shown as an introduction. After that, a member of JICA Project Team presented a brief summary of our Smart City Project in Siem Reap and related activity of waste management. After the presentation of JICA Smart City Project. GIZ then gave a presentation on the impact of plastic waste on the environment and shared their knowledges with the participants. Afterwards, the participants watched a video to deepen their understanding of how they can contribute to urban environmental protection. The concept of the 4Rs (Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) to reduce waste was also introduced. These presentations and short videos were shown using the projector from Seiko Epson Corporation Ltd., which is cooperating with the project.
Some local authorities also shared their concerns and challenges regarding waste management in their areas. A waste collection company talked about the benefits of using their services to clean up the city and the relevant regulations/sub-decree with regarding waste disposal for residents.
At the end of each workshop, the city administration representatives donated two uniform bins to each school. One bin is for recyclable waste and the other is for organic waste with the intention of using the day's learning to help them separate waste on their own. Although it is difficult to achieve immediate results for society with environmental awareness activities, the project will be carried out in cooperation with various organizations because of its extremely important content.
