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GGGI hosts the 6th Thematic Working Group for the Waste to Resource Project

28-30 June , Musanze, Rwanda – The Global Green Growth Institute in collaboration with Ministry of Environment, Rwanda hosted the 6th Thematic  Working Group in Musanze District over period of three days. This critical meeting is part of series of project progress meetings under The Ministry of Environment of the Government of Rwanda initiated a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development of the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to strengthen cooperation and technology transfer between the two countries titled project Waste to Resources: Improving Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and Hazardous Waste Management in Rwanda.

This is a recurrent quarterly activity under the project management where members of the thematic working group are gathered to technically orient project implementation and for the project team to update the members on the project progress.  With the aim of the convening will be for the project team to update the members of the TWG on project progress as well as presenting key technical studies for review and validation. Members from Ministry of Environment (MoE) ; Ministry of Infrastructure (MININFRA) ; Ministry of ICT and Innovation (MINICT) ; Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) ;Rwanda Green Fund (FONERWA) ;City of Kigali (CoK) ;Rwanda Environmental Management Authority (REMA) ; National Industrial Research and Development Agency (NIRDA) ; Gender Monitoring Office (GMO) ;Rwanda Development Board (RDB) ;Water and Sanitation Corporation (WASAC) all joined and participated by sharing their insights into the designs and reports prepared by the GGGI team. The key project technical studies that were presented and reviewed included:

  • the design options for sorting facility to be installed at Nduba dumpsite,
  • Identification of the tool and data required for the modeling of GHG emissions from: 1) Nduba landfill and 2) e-waste (in City of Kigali and secondary cities) and
  • the gap analysis report for MSW and e-waste in Rwanda, and policy recommendations for MSW and e-waste in Rwanda, and  finally
  • the review of the Training Materials for Municipal Solid Waste Management.

The Ministry of Environment, a leading institution overseeing the project implementation opened the sixth thematic working group. Mr Karuranga Dismas, Pollution control specialist from the Ministry of Environment gave his opening remarks and applauded the project team lead by GGGI for the progress made so far and stated that the thematic working group was proposed by the Project Advisory committee (PAC) for all project stakeholders to give feedback, inputs, to review project progress reports and technical studies and advise the team for recommendations to be shared with the PAC. He continued encouraging all participants to provide input and to critically analyses the presentations presented for a fruitful discussion.

 

The outcomes of the working group were met as all participants actively engaged and gave through feedback for the GGGI team to include, these outcomes included:
o Understanding the status of the waste to resources project implementation
o Provide feedback on the project challenges and risks,
o Choose one design option for sorting facility to be installed at Nduba dumpsite.
o Potential policy recommendations for MSW and e-waste in Rwanda
o Understanding of the gap analysis in MSW and e-waste in Rwanda

First Presentation of the design options for sorting facility to be installed at Nduba dumpsite was made by the consultant Green Vistaa. Followed by  an open discussion the design options for sorting facility to be installed at Nduba dumpsite ; each of the groups were given an opportunity to then give a presentation of the inputs and comments on the design options for sorting facility to be installed at Nduba dumpsite. The joint venture Green vista and ICU contracted by GGGI to build a sorting plant at the site of the Nduba landfill (near Kigali) presented on the pre-planning report on  the design options for sorting facility to be installed at Nduba dumpsite . Green vista started by describing two different design broad design types of the sorting facility design A and design B basing on their sorting capacity as tabled below:  

  • Design type A: Sorting line for Dry Recyclables without pre-screening  
  • Design type B: Sorting line for Dry Recyclables with pre-screening, enabling the possibility to treat charges with higher shares of organics and mixe

Day 2 commenced with GGGI Rwanda Jean Pierre, Senior Associate Green Urbanization introducing the gap analysis report for Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)  and e-waste in Rwanda , followed by the group work for members to give their inputs and comments on gap analysis report for MSW and e-waste in Rwanda.  The GGI consultant Elisee Gashugi , elaborated on the tools and required data for Modelling GHG Emissions, followed by  Liliane Mupende , GCF NAP Lead introducing the policy recommendations for MSW and e-waste in Rwanda. Project members were then given an opportunity to have an open discussion on the policy recommendations for MSW and e-waste in Rwanda and  give their inputs and comments on policy recommendation for MSW and e-waste in Rwanda.

Day 3 began with a presentation of the Training Materials for Municipal Solid Waste Management by GGGI Rwanda Juvenal, Senior Officer Sustainable Waste Management  and he also gave an update to  the thematic working group on Waste to resources project progress and challenges for project implementation as well as presenting key technical studies for validation.

On the final day the project team members gave several recommendations to each presenter for their consideration in general for the project progress GGGI was informed that :

  • Exit strategy should be include to ensure that the City of Kigali take is able to support and manage the project implementation
  • Ministry of Environment was recommended to be more involved in the project discussions related to partnering with any other institutions/consultants to monitor project deliver
  • Ministry of Environment proposed to be more involved in resource mobilization to support scaling up into other projects  on Circular economy