Philippines: Public-Private Partnerships by Local Government Units
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 section of the toolkit focuses on contract issues, since a key part of the TA was to support private sector involvement in solid waste management. A number of practical briefs in this section highlight Philippines: Public-Private Partnerships by Local Government Units as an additional reference that can provide more details on the private sector experience in the Philippines. This is particularly relevant since two of the case study cities are in the country. Read this report to learn more about international experiences of PPPs at the local level and draws lessons from the successful revival of the Philippine PPP program at the central government level.