Brief Description

The proposed project will support the development of financially sustainable and innovative public private partnerships (PPPs) for basic service delivery, in particular the delivery of solid waste management services (including waste collection, street sweeping, waste picking and recycling services), within urban and peri-urban areas in the city of Maseru, Lesotho. The project’s aims will be two-fold. On the one hand it will strive to improve the enabling environment for the establishment of financially sustainable basic service delivery PPPs by facilitating the development, adoption and implementation of permissive pro-poor policies and regulations, and by further enhancing institutional capacity to contract, manage and monitor PPP service delivery arrangements.

Besides support to the policy environment, capacity will be enhanced through the establishment of PPPs on solid waste management. As such, the project will strive to protect human and environment health from the unsound management of solid waste, by contributing to a clean urban living environment through the provision of ward specific solid waste management and collection schemes for ‘real’ waste, recyclables and possibly biodegradable waste. This will lead to the avoidance of illegal dumping, inappropriate disposal and home waste burning contributing to water, soil and air pollution as well as posing serious health risks especially among poorer communities.   The project also aims to enhance capacity among basic service providers, in particular women-led businesses and women entrepreneurs, to create meaningful long-term employment opportunities for poor communities, resulting in the creation of self-employment, micro enterprises, SMEs and the expansion of existing SMEs in the area of solid waste/resource collection, transport, recycling and disposal.
 

Contact:

Mr. Steve Odwyer
steve.odwyer@undp.org