The "Guidelines on Co-Processing Waste Materials in Cement Production" provide expertise on legal, technical, social, environmental and financial aspects of waste management in general and co-processing in particular. But they should not be understood as a "copy paste" instruction for the implementation of co-processing in a country. In the Guidelines, the need for capacity building on the above mentioned aspects is described to empower the involved stakeholders in a country to achieve the benefits of co-processing.

The training kit consists of several practice orientated modules which allow taking the spe-cific framework conditions in emerging and developing countries into consideration. The modules contain slides for presentation, an accompanying textbook with instruction advice for the trainer and additional training material such as practical exercises, case studies etc. According to the requirements of the participants on capacity building, the most useful modules can be put together for specific training.

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The overall educational objective of the training is to contribute to the improvement of a count-ries waste management practices.

Participants of the training should understand the benefits, risks and opportunities of co-processing as a contribution towards sustainable development. They should be able to apply the different tools to implement and supervise co-processing successfully.

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The first training package is aimed at public authorities at national, regional and local level and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) dealing with the issue of waste management and co-processing. Participants at the training sessions from the public sector could be responsible, for exam-ple, for the development of waste management strategies and waste master plans, accom-panying licensing processes, elaboration of the required legal framework, monitoring of environmental performance and compliance, the inspection of occupational health and safety standards or environmental communication.

Training for NGOs will be addressed to those experts who are dealing with the validation of environmental technology, environmental education or policy development. At a later stage the target group could be extended to cement operators, waste handling companies and to waste generators.

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The training targets are based on the requirements for capacity building as stipulated in the guidelines mentioned above. Over all the modules of this specific training kit, these are:

• formulation of waste management policies
• formulation and interpretation of waste statistics
• authorization and controlling of co-processing
• assessment of new materials for co-processing and waste source qualification
• monitoring of operation and transportation (methodologies of emission analysis and evaluation of analytical data)
• management of occupational health and safety of the workers within the cement plant and during transportation
• enforcement of the national regulations and permissions
• systematic communication with stakeholders and the public

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