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Funding and expertise for a sustainable development of African cities

STUDY TRIP

TO LOMÉ,

the challenges of structuring a solid waste management sector in a major West African metropolis, a mission supported by CICLIA

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A Guinean delegation, composed of representatives of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation (MATD), the National Sanitation Agency (ANASP) and the municipalities of Greater Conakry (elected officers and technical staff), travelled to Lomé to feed its strategic thinking through exchanges with its Togolese counterparts.

How can a sustainable public waste management service be organised at the scale of a large African metropolis?

How to finance it?

How to best articulate the role of state services and local authorities?

How to adapt to climate change and make waste treatment infrastructures more resilient to natural hazards?

Structural issues discussed in December 2022 in Lomé (Togo)

around the preparation of the waste management project in

Conakry (Guinea)

Structural issues

discussed in December 2022 in Lomé (Togo) around the preparation of the waste management project in

Conakry (Guinea)

Since 2007, the municipality of Lomé has deeply organised the waste management service under the Lomé Urban Environment Project (PEUL) funded by AFD and EU.

The various phases of the PEUL (phases I, II, III and IV) have enabled the construction and operation of a landfill but also to support the capacity building of public and private stakeholders in solid waste management sector. The various phases have allowed, for example, the optimisation of the collection, the improvement of local taxes management or the organisation of public service delegations for the various links in the waste sector (pre-collection, transfer, storage, recycling and recovery).

Since 2020, the Guinean State, through the MATD (Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation), the ANASP (National Agency for Sanitation and Public Health) and the municipalities, with the support of its technical and financial partners, are developing a similar approach to the Togolese one to structure its entire waste management sector.

Exchanges of information, sharing of good practices and site visits : throwback on a journey full of lessons learned for the organization of the solid waste sector of Conakry.

Since 2007, the municipality of Lomé has deeply organised the waste management service under the Lomé Urban Environment Project (PEUL) funded by AFD and EU.

Fruitful exchanges of information on the whole waste sector

It was a trip that made it possible to collect a lot of information on waste management. Pre-collection, transfer, disposal, recovery of biowaste, "we were impressed by the waste management sector in Greater Lomé. We can see that each stakeholder plays his role.

As a result, the city of Lomé is very clean.

An optimised solid waste management system is made up of several stages, from waste first handling moment to its disposal or recycling : pre-collection, collection, pre-treatment, transfer, treatment, are all linked in a sometimes complex chain.

An efficient management service takes care of the end-of–life waste and limits the negative impacts on the environment, health and the economy.

Alpha Ibrahima BARRY,

Deputy Director of Basic Social Services, MATD

The site visit: a rich insight into waste treatment

We visited the Lomé landfill site, which is similar to the one we are planning to build in Conakry.

We were able to appreciate the reality of its operation.

Issa DIAKITE, Director General of the ANASP

We were able to observe the operation of a Landfill. I noticed that good operation is necessary, with regular waste recovery and rapid closure of the storage cells. Otherwise leachates accumulate in large quantities, especially during the wet season. In terms of design, the storage capacity of the leachates should be seriously considered.

In terms of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, we have to think about the biogas recovery. In our project, it will be transformed into energy. Then we need to think about covering the landfill to prevent the release of gas.

Ibrahima CAMARA, Engineer, focal point of the project to structure the downstream waste sector in Conakry, ANASP

How to design a landfill to reach environmental and social standards?

Lessons learnt as close to complexity as possible

Lessons learnt as

close to complexity as possible

In terms of financing of the waste sector in Togo, most it is provided by the State.

Issa DIAKITE,

Director General of the ANASP

In Guinea too, waste management is a transferred competence. We must be inspired by what we have seen in Lomé to promote a convergence of all stakeholders of the waste sector’s actions in our capital city.

Alpha Ibrahima BARRY,

Deputy Director of Basic Social Services, MATD

Even if the population has to do its part by paying the subscription, the government must be the main financing stakeholder, especially downstream (transfer and treatment). There must be a real commitment from the State.

Ibrahima CAMARA,

Engineer, focal point of the solid waste management project in Conakry, ANASP

Learn more about public waste management sector’s financing

The public service of solid waste management represents a cost for the municipality. The municipal budget, which is largely based on the financial contribution of citizens, is even more difficult to consolidate when dealing with precarious neighborhoods and populations with limited financial capacities.

In the countries where AFD operates, financing the waste management sector usually comes from the general budget.

In addition to technical support, it is therefore necessary to provide the counterparts with support on financial and fiscal aspects. Indeed, those are essential to ensure the sustainability

of the service.

In the countries where AFD operates, financing the waste management sector usually comes from the general budget.

In addition to technical support, it is therefore necessary to provide the counterparts with support on financial and fiscal aspects. Indeed, those are essential to ensure the sustainability

of the service.

# PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE

This study tour is part of the preparatory phase of the project to structure the solid waste sector in Conakry. The project is benefiting from a technical assistance to the Guinean authorities in charge of waste management.

To obtain appropriate solutions to local contexts, the Guinean delegation benefited from fifteen years of joint experience between the municipality of Lomé, AFD and its partners. The dissemination of knowledge on waste management in Lomé and the sharing of experiences between two countries of the same region should make it possible to design tailor-made solutions through a gradual structuring of the sectors adapted to the local context. This must ensure sustainability of the project.

This trip was financed by CICLIA facility and implemented with the support of the Technical Assistance to the ANASP, carried out by the consultancy firm Artelia. The Belgian cooperation agency (ENABEL) co-organised the exchange mission and financed the visit of the representatives of the municipalities. ENABEL is involved in the upstream activities of the waste sector through the Sanita Villes Propres I and II projects implemented in Conakry with EU funding

# AND GOOD PRACTICES

The promotion of exchanges and meetings between peers in order to share good practices is essential to identify and disseminate the most relevant solutions to climate and societal issues.

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More than 550 million city residents in Africa today

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More than 550 million city residents in Africa today

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Study trip to Lomé: overview of an instructive peer-to-peer exchange of experience and best practice

of:

a financing

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for the implementation of

11 infrastructure and urban services

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for the implementation of 11 infrastructure

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preparation of

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To this day, nearly

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the Swiss Secretariat for Economic Affairs

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million

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European Union

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million euros envelope

from AFD

The scope of CICLIA's intervention, from financing to technical assistance, has a strong impact thanks to a twofold leverage effect.

A commitment with a twofold leverage effect

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with 7 new projects

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mobilisation of 4 innovative Climate Finance instruments

11 projects :

Concrete Results with Strong Impacts

Nearly €11 million committed to the building of sustainable cities in Africa

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African cities

10 capital cities

29 intermediate cities

Technical assistance funded by CICLIA

(per country and per themes)

16 supportive of climate change adaptation,

10 supportive of climate change mitigation,

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Urban development (incl. precarious neighborhoods)

Solid waste

Energy

Transport & Mobility

Local economic development

Climate strategies and disaster risk management

Urban water

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A high-impact commitment

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