The road map for solid waste management improvement in Zimbabwe

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Urban Water Supply, Sanitation and Solid Waste
in Zimbabwe
Commissioned by the
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and
Development

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Municipal Solid Waste Management in
Zimbabwe
A Roadmap for Change

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Purpose of the Roadmap
 SWM sector in Zimbabwe facing serious challenges to
achieve level of service that protects human health and
the environment.
 Shrinking budgets, consumerism, constrained
professional capacity.
 Latent potential in the sector – how do we realise the
potential?
 Identify incremental steps to improve in the near term.
 Identify who is taking these steps → coordinated action.
 Long term goal – grow a functional, sustainable and high
employment sector in Zimbabwe.
 Short term goal – take practical and meaningful steps
that enable the sector to embark on that journey.

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Goals
1. Efficient and effective basic waste management services
provided to citizens with strengthened awareness and
enforcement.
 Locally sustainable waste management solutions.
 Strengthened services → create new businesses and jobs.
 Better knowledge on where and when to take wastes →
improved sector enforcement and policing.
 Provision of basic services creates conditions for
upscaling recycling and other waste treatments.
 Proper management of disposal sites → vehicles access
and reduce disease.
 Assign cost to disposal → alternative treatment
economically justified.

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Goals
2. Stakeholders in the waste management chain
communicate, coordinate, know and respect their and
others’ roles and responsibilities.
 Reduce fragmentation and increase efficiencies.
 All stakeholders understand and fulfil their role and
responsibilities.
 Monitoring and evaluation facilitated.

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Goals
3. Improved capacity and resources within – and available
to – sector institutions and related stakeholders.
 Enhances ability to develop and deliver waste
management services, and identify appropriate ways
to finance these services.
 Focus on refining and improving operator models,
including financial /payment mechanisms.

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Goals
4. Active private and community participations.
 Unlock new energy and resources to deliver better
SWM services.
 LA’s need to create enabling framework for private
and community sector focusing on planning,
licensing, monitoring and enforcement.
 Engaging CBOs can reduce costs.
 Private sector more service orientated and flexible –
potential to transform SWM practices.
 LA important role in monitoring – attention also in
education, enforcement and cost recovery.
 NB – not a quick and easy solution. Existing problems
cannot simply be off-loaded to the private sector.

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Action 1 – Prepare a five year waste
management plan
Method
 EHOs, waste managers, and related decision makers to
receive training and skill upgrade in core practical
aspects of SWM planning – operator models, data
collection and interpretation, capital investment, O&M.
 Planning process must be quick and focus on
immediately achievable realities that rapidly improve
current conditions (crisis management).
Outcome
 A realistic achievable and concise 5-year SWM action
plan (incorporated into PIPs), focusing on “backbone”
system infrastructure and services development.

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Action 2 – Enhance technical capacity
of decision makers and operators
Method
 Decision makers and operators receive hands on training
on practical implementation knowledge and skills.
 Training and knowledge housed within a national
coordination institutional framework established through
UCAZ and IWMSA (or similar).
Outcome
 Technical knowledge and capacity institutionalised.
 Strengthened grass-roots and national coordination
institutional framework.

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Action 3 – Establish data gathering,
reporting and feedback loop mechan.
Method
 Establish data collection and reporting mechanism for
waste quantities collected, disposed or recovered with
associated service cost (per tonne).
 Establish service cost benchmarks.
 Conduct willingness / ability to pay for service studies.
 Identify and develop a national change agent coordinator
– administer and validate WM Information System.
Outcome
 Waste quantity and service cost reporting mechanism
established.
 Functional National WMIS established.
 Rates set appropriately.

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Action 4 – Define and control disposal
sites with skilled staff and budget
Method
 Local political backing for allocating operational budget
for managing the dumpsites and provision to ring-fence
budget with expedited procurement process to prevent
downtime.
 Physically bring dumpsite under control.
 Appropriate landfill equipment.
 Only then should sanitary landfill be undertaken.
Outcome
 All disposal sites have controlled operations with
appropriate resource allocation (financial, human and
technical).

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Action 5 – Enhance reliability of waste
collection services
Method
 Training of common operator models.
 Build up knowledge on effective and enforceable local
by-laws. Enforcement in LAs - experience sharing UCAZ.
 Establish conditions and resources for selected operator
model to function, and train in by-law enforcement.
 Improve private sector participation – available support
mechanisms.
Outcome
 Locally appropriate operator models identified and
implemented.
 Enforceable anti-littering and dumping by-laws enacted.
 Enforcement mechanisms resources and implemented.

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What has MOK already achieved?
 Training in Integrated SWM.
 SWM plan – creates a framework for private and
community sector.
 Budget for landfill operation… however, is this enough?
 Plans for new landfill, and upcoming BoQ and work-plan.
Exchange visit with KCC?
 CBOs set up.
 Active community participation.

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What can we work on?
 Landfill operation
 Improved service delivery – where are the problems with
collection?
 Operator models – engaging CBOs to do more
 Data collection
 Cost of service delivery
 EMA fines
 Dumpsite operation
 Cost/tonne
 Anti-litter by-laws and enforcement
 Communication

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