Participatory Approaches and Community Involvement
Recognising the importance of community participation in waste management projects and programmes is a key factor for their success. Community involvement in the planning and implementation of projects or programmes is a complex proposition. However, the benefits of wide stakeholder involvement include a clear impression of the problem to be tackled, a clear idea of the possible solutions including perspectives on affordability and desirability and finally the possibility of generating both public consensus and commitment to the project.
The participatory approaches used by WASTE include an awareness of the importance of gender in project planning and implementation. Given their different socio-cultural roles in the generation, collection and disposal of waste, men and women are found to have different perspectives when it comes to its management. It is very important that these differences are considered in the planning and implementation of waste management projects.
Under this heading you can find information:
- Participatory Approaches
- Community Involvement
- Gender and Waste
- Useful Publications
- Other Related links
Citizen Involvement in CleanUp Activities in Bamako (06 Jun 05) -
Lessons from an Action Research Project in Commune IVUWEP Working Document 13
This report documents an action research project carried out in Commune IV, Bamako, Mali to deal with a lack of participation of low income inhabitants in waste management. It outlines the methodology used to conduct the research and presents its results and conclusions.
Read more or download WD13_eng.pdf (1.28 MB)
- Gender and Waste, Integrating Gender into Community Waste Management Projects (06 Jun 05)
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Insights and tips from an e-mail conference, 9-13 May 1998UWEP Working Document 12
WASTE and WEDC hosted a three-week e-mail conference in May 1998. The conference was designed to begin a discourse on the 'real' gender implications of waste activities. The document is a summary of the responses of the 200 participants to these key questions and concludes with an agenda for future research and project development.
Read more or download WD11eng.pdf (511 kB)
- Issues and Results of Community Participation in Urban Environment (06 Jun 05)
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Comparative Analysis of nine projects in Waste ManagementUWEP Working Document 11
WASTE’s UWEP and ENDA’s Preceup programme have come together to analyse their experiences of community participation in solid waste management and published them as a joint UWEP Working Document. The publication covers experiences in Pakistan, India, the Philippines, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Mali.
Read more or download WD11eng.pdf (511 kB)
- Community-based Solid Waste Management and Water Supply Projects (06 Jun 05)
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Problems and Solutions Compared: A survey of the literature UWEP Working Document 2
This literature review of community-based solid waste and water supply projects is a preparatory study for community participation in waste management. It aims to analyse solid waste management projects and compare them with water supply projects in order to identify common lessons and key points for their success
Read more or download WD02.pdf (496 kB)
- Community Partnerships in Integrated Sustainable Waste Management (31 May 05)
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Part of Integrated Sustainable Waste Management - A Set of Five Tools for Decision-makers - Experiences from the Urban Waste Expertise Programme (1995 - 2001)
It is designed to assist decision-makers responsible for waste management to determine how to mobilize communities and how to assess and promote initiatives designed to bring about greater community participation in ISWM services.
Read more or download tools_compart_eng ebook.pdf (698 kB)
- Gender and Waste, A summary of an electronic discussion group, 9-31 May 1998 (08 Feb 05)
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UWEP Occasional Paper
Read more or download OP_gender_elec.pdf (239 kB)
- Community Participation in Solid Waste Management, (07 Feb 05)
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Factors Favouring the Sustainability of Community Participation, A Literature Review
Occasional paper
Read more or download OP_cp_lit.pdf (149 kB)
