ISSUE-2

Integrated Support for a Sustainable Urban Environment 2 (ISSUE2), a follow up of ISSUE, aiming at upscaling the number of sanitation facilities in the 14 countries.
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ISSUE-2, a follow up of the ISSUE programme built upon the experiences and lessons learned about the practicalities of sustainable waste management and sanitation options

Aim

Scale-up sanitation and waste management activities in order to effectively contribute to realising the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals).

set up

Seventeen districts (in 14 countries) were involved in the programme. Each district had clear targets for improving and expanding its sanitation and solid waste infrastructure and activities for 5,000 households.

The main beneficiaries were the users of the systems and the entrepreneurs who provide the required services.

Real and sustainable up-scaling is only possible when the private sector plays an active role. In consequence ISSUE had a deliberate focus on developing small and medium enterprises working in the field of solid waste and human excreta management, based on clear arrangements with local municipalities and utilities, and a focus on valorisation and closing nutrient loops via links between cities and their rural surroundings.

The ISSUE programme included the following innovative features:

  • Genuinely decentralised management, done by a programme board at programme level, with district level field management Using sanitation and solid waste management as the springboard to supporting sustainable livelihoods
  • A substantive focus on the sustainable modernisation of the management of the urban environment: one that is based on a mix of approaches, rather than a single large technical system
  • A focus on the economic and environmental potentials to be derived from better understanding and managing resource and nutrient cycles within, and between, districts
  • A commitment to explore the synergies from integrating the management of solid waste and excreta waste streams ISSUE 2 built further on two aspects of earlier waste programmes, through decentralised, South-concentrated management via a programme board, the establishment of knowledge centres, and
  • an exit strategy based on introducing sustainable enterprise models and an innovative household and enterprise financing component, “WASTE Ventures.”

The implementing partners of the programme were invited to form local consortia to create a broad base of support. The programme operated through consortia based and active in 14 countries: Nicaragua, Peru, Surinam, Mali, Benin, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and the Philippines.

Source of funds: 
DGIS
Project start: 
January-2007
Project end: 
December-2010
Producten: 
Start Your Waste Business
The Sanitation Decision Support Tool
No Capacity to Waste
Staff: 
Gert de Bruijne
Ivo Haenen
Lilliana Abarca
Niels Lenderink
Stan Maessen
Tatiana Lukyanskaya
Valentin Post
Verele de Vreede
David Castellano

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Start up meeting

Everybody looks back at 6 days of hard work and for the new partners even 8 days. A full programme in which the set-up, the methodology, the execution, the monitoring and the expected results were thoroughly discussed and everybody’s input was expected. All participants were exhausted but mentioned also to be energised and roaring to go at work in their own district.

 

During the meeting a lot of emphasis has been put on the outcome that is expected from the programme. In 4 years time each region, fifteen in all, have to have improved the waste management systems for 5.000 households. For a waste management system you can fill in either sustainable sanitation or adequate waste collection schemes. The emphasis is on the integration of both waste and sanitation management. All in all ISSUE 2 will be a largely implementing programme with mainly funds available for creating a favouring enabling environment, not for the physical infrastructure. Thus, to accomplish this task additional external funding will be absolutely necessary. The work has to be done efficiently and a lot of upscaling has to be done. Luckily the five partners from the first four years are still with ISSUE 2. For them the upscaling was a clear target and the new partners will rely on their experiences to reach the goals the programme set.

 

The group went home with a clear assignment for the inception phase. During the inception phase the following activities have to take place:

  • selecting a peri-urban district as intervention zone

  • forming of a consortium supported by stakeholder platforms, collaborations, MoUs and similar institutional relationships.

  • Establishment of a baseline of the selected district that includes:

    • an inventory of dialogue platforms,

    • an inventory of locally available sustainable financing,

    • an inventory of the local knowledge and information function and lastly but not least importantly,

    • an inventory of the conditions related to solid waste and sanitation practices.

 

The inception phase will take 9 months for the new partners. The ‘old’ partners hope to finalise or update their information in 3 to 6 months time.

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Midterm meeting

It is clear that the actual implementation of the programme is very different in each district.

Starting point of the discussions were:

  • The transition to users paying for the facilities haven’t been easy, from the development approach
  • Focus on quality and sustainability rather than numbers only.

The aim of the meeting was to come to an agreement on certain concepts and ideas based on the experiences of the partners in the field and to come to an exit strategy for each partner.

Concepts discussed were:

  • Consortium Approach

 

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