The Eco Citizen project was a one-year long-term project with a strong local impact. It targets all categories of inhabitants of Ait Ourir and consists of several phases, starting with raising awareness, practical workshops, and strengthening capacities regarding waste sorting towards recycling and recovery.

This project began in 2020 as a preparatory phase in which the AFCD Foundation team launched social media campaigns and created a variety of communication tools to raise awareness and develop the primary steps in Ait Ourir using a participatory approach.

The implementation phase began in 2021. It did not focus only on building the capacity of local NGOs and civil society actors, but also on training new committees to better represent the local population and develop alternative pathway proposals for better household waste management.

At the same time, citizen participation concentrated on how municipalities can better implement their plans using more participatory approaches that potentially lead to better local governance.