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In the Czech Republic, there has long been pressure from the industrial lobby to build waste incinerators. The reason is the chaos in waste management planning and the slow implementation of related strategies. As a result, there capacities for sustainable waste management don''t grow and the planned landfill ban was postponed recently from 2024 to 2030. Investing in waste incinerators is at odds with the EU''s circular economy and environmentally sustainable economic activities policies. Moreover, the waste incinerator projects under consideration put cities and regions at a disadvantage in many cases by committing them to financing the waste incinerators for unreasonably long periods. Civil society involvement in the assessment processes such as EIA is critical for increasing the transparency of decision making and preventing unreasonable flooding of the country by environmentally unsustainable facilities. We will work with at least 5 local initiatives facing such projects and help them to increase their ability to effectively use their civil rights, participate in decision making processes and improve their advocacy and media skills. We will also work with them on collecting and using new data useful for the policy dialogue. The methods to be used include: process mentoring, educational activities, data collection and research, media work, development of an activist guidance document etc.