| SWAPP Participates in an EU-funded project |
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| Written by SWAPP | |
| Tuesday, 16 December 2008 | |
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SWAPP Participates in an EU-funded project: Integrated Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Asia Starting 2009, the EU funded project entitled: ISSOWAMA or the Integrated Solid Waste Management in Asia will be bringing together experts and stakeholders in the field of solid waste management in Asian developing countries and Europe. SWAPP will be among 23 institutions all over the world participating in the said project. The project consortium includes countries in South Asia (Bangladesh, India), the Greater Mekong Sub-region (Cambodia, Thailand, China) and South East Asia (Indonesia and Philippines).The project will promote international cooperation between research organisations, universities, and social and governmental stakeholders in a European and Asian context (local waste processors, local municipalities and policy makers, local NGOs representatives, etc). The main objective of ISSOWAMA is to develop a performance assessment system for integrated waste management scenarios, which will consist of a set of qualitative sustainability criteria along with quantitative impact indicators enabling assessment of waste management strategies. The central focus will be the integration of the sustainability aspects into the system, such as environmental impacts, economic considerations and the social situation in the target region, integrating appropriate low-cost and efficient technologies with community-based management and their relevant governance, institutional frameworks and socio-economic constraints, linking waste treatment with poverty reduction and improvement of welfare of the population. |
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