Desenho de plano de educação ambiental como instrumento para participação activa da comunidade na gestão de resíduos sólidos urbanos no Bairro da Mafalala no Distrito Municipal Ka Maxakeni

Abstract

This academic internship report describes the development of internship activities in Environmental Education at KUWUKA JDA-Youth Development and Environmental Advocacy located in Maputo City, Eduardo Mondlane Avenue, no 1637. The report focuses on Environmental Education strategies for the active participation of the community in the management of municipal solid waste in the municipality of Ka Maxakene, specifically in the Mafalala neighborhood. The internship lasted three months, during which time the following activities were carried out: participation in workshops and seminars, follow-up on the implementation of the CAMINI MINIMI project and the social platform project of conservation, ecotourism and land use planning in Maputo-land, socio-environmental diagnosis, participation in cleaning and sensitization days, participation in the training of activists on environmental sanitation. The accomplishment of the academic internship was fundamental for the trainee because she had learned to reconcile the theoretical knowledge approached during the course of Graduation in Environmental Education in practice in the field of work through the contact with the socio- professional reality and the acquisition of relevant practical experience . It was concluded that the problems that occur at the municipal level, as regards the management of solid waste, are due, first, to the lack of knowledge on the part of the residents, given the lack of awareness campaigns of the inhabitants. Due to the absence of inclusive strategies that results in short intervention of local structures and insufficient means for the deposit, handling and treatment of waste. In this sense, environmental education has a great contribution in the transformation of human attitudes and behaviors to the acquisition of new knowledge and the awareness of it in order to have an active participation in the management of solid waste. The community is encouraged to consider environmental education instruments for solid waste management and KUWUKA JDA to create continuous environmental education campaigns in the neighborhoods to raise awareness among residents to participate actively in solid waste management.