VIRTUAL SPECIALIZATION PROGRAM "CHALLENGES AND TOOLS FOR AN INTEGRAL WASTE MANAGEMENT"
Presentatión:
The Instituto para la Calidad of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Ciudad Saludable have joined together to offer a long-distance specialization program called “Challenges and Tools for Integral Waste Management” at national and international levels. It is aimed at municipal officials, personnel of other public institutions, NGO’s employees, technicians from private institutions working on environmental issues and other professionals that work or desire to specialize in environmental administration and solid waste management.
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Continuous Formation Program for Teachers "Environmental management in Educational institutions"
The aim of this program is to contribute to the formation of teachers and students that are environmentally responsible, capable of analyzing the environmental situation around them and propose solutions to environmental problems in order to promote sustainable development in their educational institutions.
This program is executed under an agreement signed with local education management units, regional education directions and Municipalities. It includes 8 training modules and at the end, participants shall execute an environmental education project that proposes the solution of the problems identified.
Training modules are the following:
Methodology:
Control and Monitoring System:
Evaluation and Credits:
1. Participants shall come to sessions and do practical work.
2. Evaluations are graded as Passed or Failed, according to the following criteria:
3. Credits shall be applied according to the certification made by organizers after the project is applied and defended.
Education Management offers the following workshops:
Healthy Bag
The Healthy Bag offered by Ciudad Saludable contains educational material such as a poster about eco-efficient offices that explains how to implement environmental efficiency in offices, an environmental planner indicating the environmental celebrations calendar for 2009, flyers and two-page leaflets that promote segregation at the sources in houses and businesses. .
The use of the healthy bag is also promoted as a way to reduce the use of plastic bags.
The cost of the healthy bag and materials is of S/. 15.00 (about USD $5.00).
Book: Memorias del Centauro
The life of Recyclers
This book tells stories, events and anecdotes of solid waste recyclers gathered by author José Roldan during months of being with them while working in the streets of Lima.
It was published in 2008 sponsored by Ciudad Saludable and the Centro Nacional para el Arte y la Cultura (KUNTUR).
The books costs S/. 20.00 (about USD $6.67).
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Miraflores, Lima 18
Tel. (+51 1) 446-6323
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info@ciudadsaludable.org
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