The Regional Community Solid Waste Management Program (RCSWMP) aims at approaching the issue of SWM by means of research, analysis, and confrontation of the root causes of solid wastes problems in four urban target areas in Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia.

The program is built upon five dimensions: the first dimension is the choice of four target areas and communities, in four Arab Mediterranean Countries, who suffer the most and stand to benefit more from such a program; second is the implementation of public awareness campaigns; third is a highly relevant and practical training program to be offered to the target groups selected; fourth is the promotion of SWM practices and techniques in these areas; and fifth is the dissemination of the results locally to the related project nature in participating countries.

The Arab NGO Network for Environment and Development (RAED)is implementing the RCSWMP project, which is the main contracting partner. RAED has its secretariat with the Arab Office for Youth and Environment (AOYE), Cairo, Egypt.

AOYE is also the Egyptian NGO participating in this project. The other participating NGOs are Environment and Development in Maghreb (ENDA Maghreb) (Morocco), Association of the Protection of Nature and Environment in Kairuan (APNEK) (Tunisia) and the Lebanese Council for Environment and Development (LCED) (Lebanon).

The Dutch environmental consultancy Tauw bv is involved in the project as the EU partner and is responsible for preparation of training materials and conducting the training to participating NGO staff as well as for monitoring and evaluation of the demonstration units of each of the participating countries.