The travel of global ideas of waste management. The case of Managua and its informal settlements

Campos, María José Zapata; Zapata, Patrik

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2013.07.003

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“…There are examples of such initiatives of creating official cooperatives or microenterprises to formalize the role of the informal sector. Zapata Campos et al [42] reported one such example from Managua, Nicaragua, where the municipality and NGOs (both international and local) collaborated on involving the informal sector while implementing a project to provide a waste collecting service in informal settlements. That project supported waste pickers to create a cooperative collecting household solid waste in the neighbourhoods that are not accessible with modern waste trucks.…”

Section: Inclusion Of the Informal Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Municipal Solid Waste Management in Latin America and the Caribbean: Issues and Potential Solutions from the Governance Perspective

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Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management is an essential service for an urban population to maintain sanitation. Managing MSW is complex as the treatment/recovery options depend not only on the volume of waste, but also on the socioeconomic conditions of the population. This paper focusses on MSW management in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. Dominance of uncontrolled disposal options of MSW in the region, such as open dumps, has an adverse influence on health and sanitation. Interest in source separation practices and recycling is low in the LAC region. Furthermore, economic matters such as poor financial planning and ineffective billing systems also hinder service sustainability. Rapid urbanization is another characteristic feature in the region. The large urban centres that accommodate over 80% of the region’s population pose their own challenges to MSW management. However, the same large volume of MSW generated can become a steady supply of resources, if recovery options are prioritized. Governance is one aspect that binds many activities and stakeholders involved in MSW management. This manuscript describes how we may look at MSW management in LAC from the governance perspective. The issues, as well as the best potential solutions, are both described within three categories of governance: bureaucratic, market, and network. The governance perspective can assist by explaining which stakeholders are involved and who should be responsible for what. Financial issues are the major setbacks observed in the bureaucratic governance institutions that can be reversed with better billing strategies. MSW is still not seen by the private sector as a place to make investments, perhaps due to the negative social attitude associated with waste. The market governance aspects may help increase the efficiency and profitability of the MSW market. Private sector initiatives such as cost-effective microenterprises should be encouraged and the projects that fit under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) defined in the Kyoto Protocol should be incentivized to attract technology and capital. Lastly, network governance is at the centre of attention due to its flexibility in supporting/absorbing public-private partnerships, especially the participation of the informal sector that is important to the LAC region. Many individual waste pickers are providing their services to the LAC region by taking part in collecting and recycling under very unfavourable working conditions.

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Section: Inclusion Of the Informal Sectormentioning

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Municipal Solid Waste Management in Latin America and the Caribbean: Issues and Potential Solutions from the Governance Perspective

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“…Such an attitude is more likely to develop in response to initiatives coming from 'outside'-from central government or foreign development aid organisations. Municipal waste workers may fear for their jobs and actually sabotage the newly introduced services provided by a third party, as the cases in, for example, Nicaragua [31] and Malaysia [7] (Box 4.33, p. 188) testify. Regardless of whether such fears are founded or not, it takes a lot of appropriate communication with a high degree of openness and transparency for them to subside.…”

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“…Such a NIMBY (not in my backyard) attitude often comes from a lack of trust in the authorities, originating from their previous failure to protect public interests. In that context, compensation to local communities can be useful in convincing people to accept new waste facilities, from small transfer stations to landfills, near their houses [31]. As such a situation is also linked to the issue of environmental justice, adequate compensation will often be in terms of other public services including paved roads, a school, or a healthcare clinic.…”

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Resolving Governance Issues to Achieve Priority Sustainable Development Goals Related to Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries

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2017

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Abstract:As a key utility service that more than 2 billion people are currently lacking, solid waste management (SWM) is a crosscutting issue that can be directly linked to 12 out of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Distinguishing between physical components and governance aspects of SWM, this research focuses on governance issues concerning basic solid waste collection services and controlled disposal, thus addressing the 'How' and the 'Who' dimensions of a SWM system. As a form of transdisciplinary research, the findings from the literature on governance issues in SWM were iteratively subjected to several rounds of commentary by a large group of stakeholders from six continents, within the authors' work for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)'s 2015 Global Waste Management Outlook. The study identifies a combination of complementary instruments required for extending collection to all and bringing disposal under control. While municipalities have a legal responsibility for providing services to their citizens, various service providers can contribute to an effective SWM system. Appropriate forms of funding are essential to secure financial sustainability of the services under the local conditions of affordability and willingness to pay. As new services require behavioural change on the part of citizens and municipal waste departments alike, communication and exchange with other stakeholders function as enabling and supporting factors. The significance of capacity development is highlighted.

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“…Instead, policies are also locally contested and eventually localized, either overtly or covertly. Local actors (e.g., city managers and community leaders) can create new spaces in which to interpret, adapt, and twist these projects to local needs, meanings, and interests (Zapata Campos & Zapata, 2012b, 2014.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, plans and policies cannot travel until they are simplified, abstracted, embodied, and inscribed, as only bodies or things can move in time and space (Czarniawska, 2002). In the translation process, in other words, in the implementation of plans and programmes, an idea is disembedded from its institutional surroundings, packaged into an object, translated and unpacked to fit a new context, translated locally into a new practice, and then reembedded (Zapata Campos & Zapata, 2014).…”

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Unexpected translations in urban policy mobility. The case of the Acahualinca development programme in Managua, Nicaragua

Zapata

Campos

2015

Habitat International

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The travel of global ideas of waste management. The case of Managua and its informal settlements

Cited by 36 publications

References 32 publications

Municipal Solid Waste Management in Latin America and the Caribbean: Issues and Potential Solutions from the Governance Perspective

Municipal Solid Waste Management in Latin America and the Caribbean: Issues and Potential Solutions from the Governance Perspective

Resolving Governance Issues to Achieve Priority Sustainable Development Goals Related to Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries

Unexpected translations in urban policy mobility. The case of the Acahualinca development programme in Managua, Nicaragua

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