SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

Supporting the partners in improving the waste management, dldp contributes to improving more efficient and effective public services with direct benefit for the citizens and the environment. By putting emphasis on public information, innovative waste management systems and cost/payment of the service, dldp contributes to standard setting, local state building and civic education, where citizens commit to pay for services, based on transparent information on the costs and tariff system. dldp will continue to work at regional and national level, implementing the national waste management strategy and law, making proposals for adjustments based on experiences and promoting innovative waste management systems, inter-LGU and regional cooperation models for effective service solutions. By consolidating a national and regional cost and tariff model, dldp makes an important contribution to the further development of national policies and standards to ensure affordable solutions in line with EU standards. Waste management proved to be an excellent example and way for improving public services along the principles of good governance (efficiency and effectiveness, public information, transparent cost and tariffs) with direct and visible benefit for the citizens. Additionally, dldp 3 will further use and strengthen the link and integration between this sectorial approach with the overall PFM approach.  

dldp 3 will focus on:
 
· Consolidation of provided support in old LGUs capacity development and coaching of partners, with a focus on the inter-LGU expert group on waste management used to capitalise experiences for broader replication;
· Up-scaling of good practice to new LGUs, by using the developed tools and models in new LGUs with a training, coaching and peer exchange and assistance approach;
· Ensuring the funding of selected waste service, by improved cost calculation and increase of revenue collection through transparency and public information as well as enforcement measures;
· Further testing of new innovative waste management systems as recycling (at source), composting, interLGU cooperation and Private Public Partnerships;
· Consolidation of the cost/tariff model (regional and national), to be replicated in other regions in
· Albania as well as the support to define a national cost and tariff model (including optimization scenarios), supporting the government to set up the financial framework and potentially a national regulatory entity;
· Linking a sectorial approach to the overall PFM approach, by integrating sector related indicatives into to overarching planning, execution, monitoring and reporting PFM framework;  
· Capacity development and handing over (anchoring) of waste related tools, models and standards, with focus on selected institution(s) at national level that will be enabled to use, disseminate and further develop the different tools and standards on national level;  
· Continued contributions to the national policy dialogue, in coordination with SELEA and other actors.