CBO based Waste Collection and SME Development in Waste Recycling in Dar Es Salaam

A. v.d. Klundert, M. Muller (1998)

As everywhere else in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) Community Based Organzations (CBOs) and Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) play gradually a more important role in the provision of different types of urban services in their own neighbourhood.

This document is a report of a mission to advise the Dar Es Salaam City Comissions about involving small private enterprises and Community Based Organisations in the waste management sector.

Analysed is:

• The Integration of the waste collection on ward level into the city-wide services centres around: the scheduling of appropriate secondary collection routes; a regular and reliable time schedule; the establishment of a network of secondary collection points; availability of vehicles to carry out secondary collection.
• a clear division of responsibilities and tasks between CBOs and DCC;
• Decentralization and privatisation provide opportunities to CBOs to acquire work contracts,
• The combination of waste collection and recycling by CBOs and small enterprises, while pointing out the actions to be undertaken to make this combination economically interesting.
• Finally, some gender issuesin waste management in Dar es Salaam are pointed out.
• The waste flow of the paper, plastic, metal and organic waste and the role of the MSEs in Dar es Salaam.
• Lastly the transportation costs and occourring problems.

The analysis is done on the basis of ISWM and based on the outcome several options for action have been suggested.

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