KAWR National Waste Management Sensitization and Education Campaign – Coastal Region

KEPRO and KAWR signed a one-year memorandum of understanding on enhanced public impact activities on November 19, 2022.

KAWR is planning to roll out a National Waste Management Sensitization and Education Campaign across the eight (8) regions in line with its core objectives of creating awareness of sustainable waste management and recycling education.

Core Objectives:

The campaign will target to address the following challenges.

1.  Create jobs by demonstrating to the unemployed women and the youth that waste is wealth and encourage and guide them to join the recycling value chain, either through waste aggregation, or processing as individuals or collectively as groups and to identify gaps and tap into opportunities for wastepreneurs.

2.  Raise waste collection and recycling rates by increasing the number of actors and also introduce recycling activities through awareness creation.

3.  Map recycling activities in the country as well as the secondary raw (recycled) materials flow analysis through basic data collection

4.  Mitigation of climate change, environmental conservation, and reduction of plastics erosion in the marine ecosystem

5.  Training and sensitization of waste managers on EPR and National Sustainable Waste Management Act, 2022

6.  Form a framework for collaboration and align stakeholders in waste management for the Regions and the Country to complement both national government and county government efforts towards sustainable waste management and job creation

Planned Activities:

Regional programs are designed to take a duration of two months (60 days).

The first three weeks (21 days) would be for a data collection exercise targeting;

✅ Activity and Actors Mapping

✅ Material flow Analysis

✅ Demographic Analysis

Data consolidation and pre-verification begin in the 4th week, the result would go a long way in identifying the real Waste Management Actors (WMAs) in the regional block and other significant actors engaged in the region’s waste management space.

The data result would then inform the representative participation in the program forums as follows.

1.  Day 1: Recycling education and awareness workshop on the representatives of; Waste pickers, Aggregators, Local administration, Religious/Community leaders, Academia, Sub- County officials, and the general public. (Full day)

2.  Day 2: Preparing Regional recycling businesses for the SWM Act and the EPR Regulations conference for representatives of waste transporters, processors value addition, manufacturers, Residents’ Associations, PROs (Producer Responsibility Organizations), Business Membership Organizations (BMOs), County Administrative and Environment Officials, NEMA county and relevant National Government Ministries.

3.  Day 3: The Regional summit will process and validate the regional data, and identify gaps, challenges, and opportunities in the region. This will bring together representation from the two tiers of waste actors alongside Regional/National leadership representatives and will culminate with a call to action for the region towards a circular economy and sustainable waste management.