Capacity Development for Municipal Waste Management

The project aimed to collect basic information about current situations of the Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) systems (generation, collection, transportation, intermediate treatment/recycling, and final disposal) in the target cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Dnipro in order to understand their processes, operation and maintenance systems including financial systems, and the status of the existing incineration plants. Based on the results above, to analyze plans of the national government, oblast governments, and municipalities; to identify specific needs; to study necessity and feasibility of introduction of waste to energy plants; to select priority projects; and to propose an assistance direction and scenario through Japanese soft loan project and accompanying technical cooperation.