Maldives Ari Atoll Solid Waste Management Project

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The objective of the Ari Atoll Solid Waste Management (SWM) Project for Maldives is to build technical and human resource capacity to effectively manage solid waste generated in selected inhabited islands of the Ari Atoll, thereby reducing the environmental risks to marine habitats and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The project has three components. The first component is development and implementation of an island level integrated SWM system. This component aims to build the institutional capacity of the island councils and communities in the five islands to plan and implement an island level integrated SWM program to minimize the environmental risks to the country's marine and terrestrial assets while reducing GHG emissions. It has following four sub-components: (i) community participation in source segregation of solid waste to create community awareness on the environment and public health implications of poor SWM in the respective islands and solicit community participation for source segregation of household level solid waste; (ii) implementation of an island level recycling and composting program at the Island Waste Management Centers (IWMCs) to finance: (a) the construction of a concrete pad for composting with a drainage system for leachate collection at each of the IWMCs; and (b) training of staff to undertake simple windrow composting at the IWMCs; (iii) institutional capacity building of the island councils and communities for planning and managing an effective island level integrated SWM system; and (iv) development of a strategy to operationalize the European Union (EU)- financed IWMCs in the atolls of the central province. The second component is development of institutional arrangements and implementation of a waste transfer system for off-island disposal of residual solid waste. The objective of this component is to develop an effective, working institutional model to transfer residual waste from the participating islands of Ari Atoll to the Thilafushi island facility and demonstrate the use of this model for residual waste transfer for all central province atolls. The third component is project management. The objective of this component is to establish an effective mechanism for project implementation, including monitoring and reporting of the implementation progress. Implementation support will be provided by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff posted at the island offices of the five targeted islands for technical oversight and coordination among the participating island councils that will have the primary responsibility for island-level implementation.

FY17 - Water, Sanitation and Waste Management

World Bank Group

Project

Water Supply and Storage, Manufacturing (Industrial), Biomass, Cement, Commercial, Waste Processing and Treatment, Government