Municipal Administration Modernisation (MAM) (Syria)
EU contribution: € 18 million
Objectives: Improve the quality and effectiveness of local governance
Examples of actions:
- Implement a one-stop-shop
- Support seven Syrian Municipalities: Damascus (and rural Damascus), Aleppo, Lattakia, Homs, Tartous, Deir ez-Zour and Palmyra
- Several senior-level workshops and conferences
- Draft Laws on Local Administration and Local Financial and Revenue Management
- Implement a new budget classification
- Technical assistance to the cities of Tartous and Lattakia in Solid Waste tender procedures
- A Leadership and Management training program for future leaders and managers of local government agencies
- Strategic planning for the ministry (MLAE) and redesign of the organization
- Internal decentralization of service delivery to city district level in Aleppo
- Grants program, 400,000 Euros were given to eight NGOs
For Further information:
- MAM website:
www.mam-sy.org - Mr Erfan Ali, Project Director and Head of the Project Management Unit (PMU)
Tel: 00963 11 232 13 70
+963 (11) 313 2988/313 2496/ 313 2897
Email: erfalihs@scs-net.org
e.ali@mam-sy.org - Peter Ross, Acting Team Leader
p.ross@mam-sy.org

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I would like to be brief and thank Europa Jaratona program for its achievments in Jordan.
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It is good to hear that there is someone who really cares about our historical monuments. While reading the article, I was hoping to find so many Tunisian names to make sure that, also, in our country there are people who are hell-bent on preserving what is left of a glorious history. Tunisia, thanks to its location, welcomed many civilizations whose leaders built huge and glorious buildings. Not only in cities near the shores, but also in the far west cities like Sbitla, Kasserin...
I believe that in order to save the surviving monuments, there should be a campaign to make Tunisians aware of the significance of such a loss if those buildings become ruins.
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I have read this article with cautious and i was not happy of the approaches being written due i guess to lack of real understanding of current environmental issues we are facing. The problem of pollution will not be tackled only through fundings bec most of the money used is not appropriately used and if ever used we seek the traditional methods the old fashion way. We need to look at alternatives , less costs , better and more sustainable output. Waste problems are derived from mass consumerism and lack of understanding of what our lives should mean to us as far as human values and choices we should take in life. Building waste water treatment is needed but what is more needed is eduation and awereness and return to ethics and values. We can keep dumping money on projects but who would assure me that our resources are being well taken care of and not depleted in a fast way? Where is the concept of sustainibility?
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