Prefeasibility Study on Chan Aye Thar Zan Waste Collection District Concession: Mandalay

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.

A primary focus of the TA is proposing a project that ADB could support and finance. For Mandalay, Myanmar, one of the five cities under the TA, the prospect is a proposed private waste collection concession for Chan Aye Thar Zan Township.

This prefeasibility study reflects the key objective of private sector incentives and risk absorption to achieve major improvement of performance standards for residential and commercial collection and street cleaning. The study also presents a preliminary assessment of key commercial and technical issues for the proposed project.

This report should be read together with the Solid Waste Action Plan which features a proposed terms sheet and bid parameters for this concession. This study acts as a pre-cursor to a Final Full Feasibility Study along with fully developed Prequalification and Bidding Documents inclusive of a Draft Detailed Contract, which could follow on from this TA.