We developed the Integrated Sustainable Waste Management (ISWM) approach as a tool to understand the existing and necessary ‘who’, ‘how’ and ‘what’ elements are present and needed in a given [waste management] system. The ISWM approach helps to analyse three important dimensions: We work on understanding each of these dimensions and how they relate to…
The idea underlying the Complementary Local Urban Environmental Services (CLUES) tool is that some cities have reasonably functioning solid waste management services and less functioning faecal sludge management services or vice versa. CLUES asks the questions: what can waste chains learn from one another in any city and what can we learn comparing these on…
Opportunities for job creation This report maps and analyses plastic waste value chains in the cities of Bamako, Koulikoro, Kayes, Gao in Mali. A process which enables the identification of bottlenecks hampering the functioning of the solid waste value chain and activities with the highest potential for job creation. This study was carried out as…
In partnership with the Rural Development Organization (RDO) Trust WASTE developed a model for producing high-quality co-compost from wastewater and faecal sludge for the cultivation of exotic vegetables by women farmers in the district of Nilgiris, India. To enable target consumers to buy the co-compost, WASTE implemented its Diamond Model to provide tools for private financing and…
In the heart of the swirling sands and harsh arid heat of Turkana desert in northwestern Kenya you will find more than 285,000 displaced people sheltering in Kakuma Refugee Camp. An area set aside in 1992 to shelter the ‘Lost Boys of Sudan’ that today has grown to look more like a sprawling city. As conditions…