Waste management in the Antananarivo agglomeration, with its 39 municipalities and 2.5 million inhabitants, faces major technical, regulatory, institutional and financial challenges, worsen by rapid urbanisation. Poor waste management is leading to a proliferation of illegal dumps, affecting drainage infrastructure and exacerbating health and flooding risks. The lack of funding is an obstacle to the […]
A catch-phrase currently in every posts on PPPs on social networks ! More than just for words, Phoenix has been mobilized in a Technical Assistance (TA) financed by the French Development Agency (AFD) to work with the PPP Center of the Philippines towards implementing concrete actions. The PPP Center has identified more than 10 projects […]
In 2019, Guinea adopted a new strategy for the professionalization of waste management around on four main areas: strengthening the legal and institutional environment; modernizing infrastructure and equipment and promoting PPPs; building the capacity of stakeholders; institutionalizing appropriate financing and monitoring mechanisms. Despite a significant improvement in solid waste management in Conakry in recent years, […]
In terms of solid waste management (SWM), Ivory Coast is facing a dual challenge: (i) environmental, health and social challenge (the mismanagement of an increasing quantity of waste impacts the environment, public health and conditions of living); (ii) financial challenge (resources, mainly coming from taxes and levies collected by the Directorate General of Taxes or the Compagnie Ivoirienne de l’Electricité, are insufficient to cover the cost of efficient management). SWM is now largely centralized with ANAGED responsible for regulating and financing the entire cycle in the country. As often, a plurality of other public or private actors, often informal, intervene. An environmentally sound and economically sustainable SWM is now a priority in the implementation of national development policies moving towards emergence. Phœnix and Artelia are tasked by MINASS with developing a sustainable and viable financing mechanism for the sector and defining its institutional, legal and technical implications. Innovative proposals such as the introduction of eco-taxes and the identification of viable recovery and recycling channels are expected.