As part of the second phase of the "Regional Cooperation for the Sustainable Management of Maghreb Water Resources - CREM" project, (January 2019 - June 2020), a group of storytellers from the three involved Maghreb countries: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia has been selected to attend a training workshop of trainers and become trainers in their respective countries. During the workshop, held in Algiers, from September 16 to 18, 2019, the storytellers were given tools to prepare and set up training workshops for storytellers (planning, logistics, etc.) and benefited from methods allowing them to appreciate their own pedagogical abilities of listening, observation and animation.
This should enhance their storytelling skills and expand the group of storytellers to further contribute to the public's awareness raising of water conservation through storytelling and to fully play their role as Change-Makers for the Preservation of Water.
Attached to the CREM project, the "Maghreb storytellers, change-makers for the preservation of water" project implemented by the GIZ, in collaboration with the OSS, is a project to raise public awareness through storytelling. It consists of relying on the crucial role of women in the transmission of non-waste values through the dissemination of their know-how and methods for saving water resources.
In this context, women from the 3 Maghreb countries (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia), were assisted during the first phase of the project and trained in the art of storytelling, writing and the performance of storytelling.