Preparing a Strategic

Plan for Solid Waste

Management

28 November 2018
 What is SWM Strategic
Plan
• Just like any other Strategic Plan
• More reliable if data is generated and
recorded
• Reduce hap hazard and on spot fixings
• Helps to achieve the objectives
following a certain path
• Less prone to changes if approved and
agreed
 Process Involved
• Identifying problems and needs with
assessment of the existing situation
• Generating and weighting objectives
• Elaborating potential actions to meet the
objectives identified
• Preparing scenarios that address
alternative futures in, for example,
service delivery, resource recovery, cost
recovery and financial sustainability
• Comparing each scenario’s environmental
impact, mitigating measures, costs, and
constraints; and examining stakeholders’
willingness to pay for and cooperate with
the alternative scenarios
• Adjusting and re-examining scenarios
• Developing and reaching consensus on both
selection criteria
• Choose that best addresses (not The BEST)
stakeholder problems, needs, and
objectives, as well as willingness and ability
to pay;
• Preparing concrete action plans,
detailed cost analysis and financing
requirements, as well as options for
financing
• Appraising finances, negotiating for
borrowing or private participation and
developing implementation agreements
• Monitoring and evaluating the strategy,
eventually reformulating and updating
the strategies for the future
Contents of a Typical Plan
• Description of the study area;
• Description of existing conditions,
problems and needs;
• Approved planning objectives, priorities,
and resolution time horizons;
• Description of possible scenarios, their
costs, environmental analysis and other
appraisal results;
• Recommendation of the preferred
scenario with justification

• List of actions to implement the strategy,

• Related arrangements that will enable

the strategy implemented to be
sustainable
Making SWM Sustainable
A. Organizational Sustainability
i. A committed separate waste
management unit??
ii. It should work under supervision of
………??
iii. It should have authority to hire/fire its
own staff?
iv. Split units for special waste, like
hospital waste?
 B. Technical Sustainability
i. Should we start with simple solution?
ii. Which option can work best for primary
collection, if any?
iii. Secondary collection & transport?
iv. Disposal?
v. What we do with Hospital/Hazardous
Waste?
C. Financial Sustainability
i.Financial sustainability?
ii.Can a foreign donation work forever?
iii.How finances can be managed for waste
management?
iv.Should budget be sought from govt.
always?
v.Should waste producers be taxed?
vi.Tariff should be developed, Based on
economical status. house size, use of
electricity…?
vii. How can that tax be collected? With water,
electricity bill etc…

viii. If commercial waste producers pay more

to compensate for domestic

ix. Other resources like recycling introduced?

 Legislation
A base for a building

Too strict for local conditions

 Technical Strategic Plan
• Decide about modes of collection, transport
and disposal
• All stages present together in the plan
• Strategic Plan may lead of phase wise
improvement
• A typical strategic plan is for 20-35 years
time
• Improvement should be as per pre-agreed
target
• No time wasting on irrelevant solutions
Institutional Strategic Plan
Define

1
Modify Delegate

Evaluate Empower

Monitor
Financial Strategic Plan
Available resources

Willingness Services
to Pay Delivery Level

Required Resources
 Successful Waste
Management

Awareness & Enforcement

Technical & Financial

Organizational Resources
Capacity
Plan & Policy Standards &
Laws
Elephant Theory &
Debt Reality
 Conclusion
• Prepare as per local conditions on ground
• Consider the waste culture, current and
future infrastructure requirements
• The solutions provided at various must
assist each other towards final solution or
next stage and must not resist each other.
• The proposed strategy should be realistic
and applicable.
A feasible technical plan will only work in
case when it is supported by a suitable
Legislative, institutional and sustainable
financial programme.

Support from of waste comes generally

only when some results are shown

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