As part of the Regional Cooperation project for Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Maghreb | CREM, a capacity-building workshop for Tunisian water storytellers was organized from February 24 to 28, 2020. The workshop aimed both to expand the group by recruiting new storytellers from Kerkennah and Kef, to train the new recruits and to strengthen the group's capacities on storytelling. The purpose was also to allow them to better consolidate and perpetuate their storytelling activity within an associative framework through training on associations’ management.
The workshop ended with a show, presenting no less than eight stories and combining different performing arts: music, song and dance, which will be fine-tuned and submitted for possible sponsors and grants. The storytellers, who defined their vision, their mission and their common values together, formally committed to come together around a storytelling club, and to work together to help raise awareness among the general public and especially children, on the preservation of their environment.
Relating to the CREM project, the "Maghreb storytellers, agents of change for the preservation of water" implemented by GIZ, in collaboration with the OSS, is an awareness-raising project which consists in relying on the predominant role of women in conveying values of non-waste and implementation of water resources saving methods.