The municipality of Benghazi announced that it had discussed ways to reduce the use of plastic bags in the city, urging citizens to “use alternatives that preserve public health and do not contribute to environmental pollution.”
The municipality noted that a member of the municipality’s executive council, responsible for the environment and public health issues, Eng. Ahmed Faraj Al-Tira met with the official of the TAMSALL project in Libya, Hisham Al-Werfalli.
Several members of the Towards A new Multilevel Shared Approach for Libya Local governance (TAMSALL) project team participated in the meeting. They discussed ways to combine the efforts of public and private agencies, civil society organizations, and those interested in the issue of reducing the use of plastic bags.
The meeting confirmed the need to “prepare awareness programs about the effects of the use of plastic bags, and the health and environmental problems that may result from their use.”
According to the European Association of Development Agencies (EURADA), the TAMSALL project aims to contribute to the development of qualitative local public services in Libya. This will improve relations with donors, international organizations, and European regional and local authorities. As well as relevant stakeholders, and the reinforcement of administrative tools for planning and implementing services.
Notably, TAMSALL is a project aimed at reinforcing Libya’s administrative decentralization process, by supporting local authorities’ capacity building, and international relations. The project intends to share tools with 20 Libyan municipalities to improve public services.
TAMSALL will propose the multilevel governance approach as a methodology for planning and managing local services, accompanying target municipalities in testing participated, multi-stakeholder and multilevel dynamics for planning. This will be done through implementing services at the local level in four sectors: environmental services, services for youths, services for improved communication between the municipalities and its citizens, as well as social and health services.
The project will also promote territorial cooperation among target municipalities, and between them and European local administrations.