📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2020.2047.7
Status:
running project
Responsible organizational unit:
2C00 Latin America, Caribbean
Contact person:
Clemens Findeisen clemens.findeisen@giz.de
Partner countries:
Caribbean Community
SUMMARY
Goals:
The institutional and operational capacities of government and non-governmental actors to implement a climate-sensitive circular economy in the Caribbean have improved.
Client:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Project partners:
Caribbean Community Secretariat
Financier: not available
ORDER VOLUME
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
4 000 000 euros
Current project:
4 000 000 euros
COMBINED FINANCING not available
PREVIOUS PROJECT not available
SUCCESSOR PROJECT not available
DURATION
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
28.08.2023 - 31.01.2027
Current project:
01.02.2024 - 31.01.2027
OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED not available
FURTHER INFORMATION
Project website not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
Gender equality
Significant secondary objective
Democratic and inclusive governance
main goal
Adaptation to climate change
Significant secondary objective
Climate change, greenhouse gas reduction
Significant secondary objective
CRS KEY
14050 Waste management and disposal
EVALUATION not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
Initial situation
As in most countries in the world, the amount and complexity of waste generated in the Caribbean is increasing. This is not only due to general factors such as population growth, urbanization and changing consumption patterns, but also to large quantities of imported materials and packaging and the excessive waste generated by tourism. This also includes waste from cruise ships, which further exacerbates the problem. According to estimates by the United Nations Environment Programme, around 145,000 tonnes of waste are disposed of in landfills every day in Latin America and the Caribbean, including around 17,000 tonnes of plastic waste. In the region, only four percent of urban solid waste is recycled. In
the English-speaking Caribbean in particular, the amount of waste per capita is significantly higher than the regional and global average. While organic waste contributes to climate change through methane emissions, the remaining components consist of plastic, among other things. This enters the environment and contributes to marine pollution and endangers biodiversity. Although climate change and unregulated waste generation particularly affect the Caribbean population and the tourism sector, which is important for the economy, little importance has been attached to waste prevention so far. Industrial recycling plants in the individual island states are rarely economically viable due to a lack of economies of scale. Waste is therefore almost entirely
