📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2021.2276.0
Status:
ongoing project
Responsible organizational unit:
1500 East Africa and Horn of Africa
Contact person:
Bernhard Hartleitner bernhard.hartleitner@giz.de
Partner countries:
Rwanda
SUMMARY
Goals:
The framework conditions for the implementation of inclusive, climate-sensitive circular economy approaches in the waste sector by the private sector have improved.
Client:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Project partners:
Ministry of Environment
Financier:
not available
ORDER VOLUME
Current project:
8,500,000 euros
COMBINED FINANCING
not available
PREDECESSOR PROJECT
not available
SUCCESSOR PROJECT
not available
DURATION
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if any)
19.09.2022 - 31.08.2026
Current project:
01.09.2022 - 31.08.2026
OTHER PARTICIPANTS
ARGE GOPA Infra GmbH-PEGASYS LIMITED
ARGE GOPA Infra-Envero
FURTHER INFORMATION
Project website
not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
Gender equality
Significant secondary objective
Democratic and inclusive governance
Significant secondary objective
Climate change, greenhouse gas reduction
Significant secondary objective
CRS KEY
14050 Waste management and disposal
EVALUATION
not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
Background:
Rwanda generates approximately 1.5 million tons of solid waste annually, of which around three-quarters is biowaste. Nationwide, only a small number of households have access to waste collection services, and circular economy principles are only applied sporadically. Furthermore, less than four percent of waste is recycled.
This underdeveloped waste and circular economy sector poses significant risks to public health and the environment. The Rwandan government has identified this situation as an obstacle to development.
Objective:
To promote better institutional and financial frameworks for inclusive, climate-sensitive circular economy approaches in the waste sector.
Approach:
The project advises the Rwandan Ministry of Environment on implementing circular economy approaches in the waste sector in collaboration with the private sector. To this end, it establishes a regular dialogue format with businesses and supports instruments for implementing policies, strategies, and plans.
The project also expands private companies' access to financeable business models for an inclusive, climate-sensitive circular economy in the waste sector. A new financing institution and a call for business ideas provide conceptual and financial support for new business models.
Furthermore, the project is piloting national strategies and plans for a circular economy in the waste sector in a selected satellite city. Working with the relevant administrative unit of the satellite city and representatives from the private sector, the project is developing an action plan for implementing the na
