The third workshop titled “Preliminary Results and Promotion of the WEFE Nexus Innovation for the Reuse of Reclaimed Water“, took place on Wednesday January 15, 2025, at the Hôtel Magic Life Family Skanes, in Monastir. The venue was selected based on its proximity of most of the local and regional stakeholders. The working languages were mostly Arabic and French.
After the registration of participants, the workshop started with the opening and welcoming words of Dr Olfa Mahjoub, the BONEX Project coordinator and Mr Sadok Missaoui, the Regional Director of the CRDA of Monastir.
In total, 47 participants contributed to the participatory workshop with 30% of women. Participants were mainly regional and local (85% for both) representing the RWG members who participated in the first and second workshops. New participants have joined as new representatives of the regional authorities. Participants of the workshop were belonging to 13 organizations.
They can be categorized as follows:
– National as BONEX partners: INRGREF, Smartlogger.
– Regional and local policy-makers: Governorate of Monastir, CRDA Monastir.
– Local stakeholders: GDA Ouardanine (Water Users’ Associaton), farmers from the area of Ouardanine
and Regional Union of Farmers (URAP Monastir).
– Administration, technical departments, and agencies: ANPE and ONAS Monastir.
The agenda was split into 4 sessions to stick to the objectives and guidelines of the workshop. Indeed, the first session’s presentations were shared between Dr. Olfa Mahjoub and Dr. Abir Ben Slimane for the introduction of the results of the 1st and 2nd workshops, the methodology of the third workshop and the intervention of BONEX.
For the working group sessions, members of the 4 groups of the World Café were identified beforehand based on the number of representatives from each organization, gender balance, WEFE coverage with pre-assigned moderators and rapporteurs from the Steering Committee (Nabil Majdoub, T. Fatnassi, H. Melassi). Facilitators were members of BONEX research team (Prof. Abdellaziz Zairi, Dr. Abir Ben Slimane, Mr. Mohamed Taghouti and Dr. Olfa Mahjoub). Reporting and note taking was assured by BONEX team members i.e., Ms. Malek Sliti, Ms Mariem Ben Saada, Mr. Tarek Ajmi and Mr. Abdesslam Abdessamad.
