ADB Preparing the Dili Urban Services Improvement Sector Project Technical Assistance 8750

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ADB Preparing the Dili Urban Services Improvement Sector Project Technical Assistance 8750

01 December 2015

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Up to 10 billon metric tons of solid waste is generated annually from urban households, commerce, industry, and construction globally. This is bound to increase further as populations grow and migration from rural to urban areas occurs with wealth and consumption inevitably rising, prompting the amount of waste per person to multiply.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) implemented a regional technical assistance, TA 8566: Mainstreaming Integrated Solid Waste Management in Asia, to conduct an assessment of solid waste management practices in five case study cities in Asia and to provide recommendations and best practices that can guide municipalities, ADB project officers and others on how to improve proper waste management and achieve a clean, livable city.

The toolkit, Integrated Solid Waste Management for Local Government: A Practical Guide, is a major knowledge output arising from this TA. The lessons learnt from studying the five cities under this project were collated, and supplemented with general industry experience of the consulting team, bank staff and reviewers. The toolkit contains more than 40 practical briefs designed to provide easily accessible information in a very targeted manner, with embedded hyperlinks to reference documents should the reader wish to obtain more data on that topic.

One of the practical briefs in this publication focuses on Recycling, in which there the practices in Timor-Leste are cited. To provide further details on the waste management and recycling efforts in Timor-Leste, the toolkit refers to TA-8750 TIM: Preparing the Urban Services Improvement Sector Project Final Report. A product of the Timor-Leste: Urban Services Improvement Sector Project Technical Assistance, the purpose of the technical assistance (TA) is to develop an investment strategy to meet the water supply and solid waste management (SWM) needs of Dili’s population over the period 2015-2030 in line with national development targets.

Geographical Focus: 
Timor-Leste
Type of Content: 
Project Stories

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