Achievements during 2014 in Waste Management
Follow up of activities related to dldp 2 have resulted to increased citizen’s satisfaction on waste management services in Shkodër municipality due to the increased volume of recycled waste. The necessary infrastructure for sorting at source has gone closer to public institutions, mostly schools. Pupils have been involved in recycling campaigns.
As a result 9000 pupils participated in recycling campaign; collecting approx. 5 tons of recycled waste (within a period of three months’ time), meanwhile the community and local businesses have collected more than 12 tons of a value of 2,700 CHF.
The efforts for optimization of costs related to waste service have concluded in Pukë and Malësi e Madhe with an agreed inter-LGU scheme, which reduces the costs of the service from 15-55%, depending from the position and population of LGUs. For the first time, a group of LGU-s formally agreed to provide jointly the service through the same private company (Malësi e Madhe) / public service enterprise (Pukë). Different other pilot initiatives have been welcomed by local communities like agricultural composting in Dajç or supporting recycling through formalizing Roma people activity in Lezha. These first initiatives lay the ground for concrete results and sustainable changes in the quality and costs of the service.
Pilot scale achievements have been recorded aiming to build good practices with replication potential: Ministry of Environment presented Recycling Championship implemented at Shkodër Municipality as an innovative practices at the Advisory Group for Waste Management by launching so a fund raising campaign to upgrade it at national level.
With regard to other development partners, GIZ’s support to the Water Regulatory Entity built on dldp’s proposal of a regulatory body in waste management.