Improvement of Solid Waste Management - A & E Papua New Guinea, Solomon, Vanuatu and Samoa : Project Completion Report

Abstract

The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and JICA prepared the Pacific Regional Solid Waste Management Strategy (2010-2015) (hereafter referred to as RS2010) where a number of priority areas where identified for the SWM sector. The J-PRISM regional outputs were developed considering some of these priorities. The activities of the J -PRISM project are implemented through assignment of counterparts by each of the 11 PICs covered in the Project to work with experts dispatched by JICA. The JICA Chief Advisor for this project is stationed in Samoa and is supported by a regional expert serving as Assistant Chief Advisor and two JICA project coordinators dispatched from Japan. During the period from project commencement in 2011 to 2013, JICA dispatched 6 short term experts to the region, working under the Chief Advisor and having responsibilities for specified countries of the 11 PICs covered under the project. Short term experts A and E were assigned responsibilities for PNG, Solomon and Vanuatu. Samoa was covered directly by the Project Office.The Experts dispatched under this JICA Expert Team (JET) were responsible for the Project activities in the four PIC countries of PNG, Solomon, Vanuatu and Samoa. In addition to the regional outputs, each of the 11 individual countries developed their own outputs. These are shown in Figure 3, together with the cities targeted in each country for the project and the populations and estimated waste generation amounts for each of these cities. Details of the PDMs for each of the four countries are provided in the attachments of this report.