Definition of a sustainable financing mechanism for the “solid waste“ sector in Conakry, Guinea

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, the waste collection rate remains below 40% in the city. Pre-collection, in principle entirely financed by users, is carried out by about a hundred SMEs, assisted by the National Sanitation and Public Health Agency (“ANASP”) and a private service provider for the installation of voluntary drop-off points, pre-collection on the main roads and collection. The “La Minière” landfill, managed by a private operator delegated by ANASP, to which the waste is transferred, is saturated and should have been closed since the 1990s.

The restructuring of the downstream sector includes the extension of transfer centers, the construction of a new technical landfill in Baritodé and the recovery of waste by biogas. The identification of a mechanism for financing the recurrent costs of the waste management service in Conakry is a major challenge for the sustainability of the service. Its implementation will be an experiment whose lessons can be used to inform the thinking of Guinea’s secondary cities.

Phoenix, under contract to Artelia, is tasked by AFD with preparing, coordinating and contributing to the ongoing reflection among the sector’s stakeholders, identifying concrete viable and sustainable financing options to ensure the sector’s financial equilibrium and drawing up an action plan to make the selected financing mechanism operational.