Good practices for Social inclusion - Case studies and summary

Composting or vermi-composting is done by community women, in small groups or
in the community. The RT (neighbourhood association) employs a male or female
informal private collector or collectors to collect, sort the wastes in a local site and
sell recyclables to the secondary informal private sector to combine service with
poverty alleviation. Alternatives: Families segregate bio-degradable and other
recyclable wastes at source and informal private collectors (men and women) or the
local youth groups collects and sells the different wastes to the secondary informal
sector for income generation.
Civic-Public-Private Partnership
RTs (neighbourhood associations) employ (or households directly pay) poor female
and/or male solid waste collectors from the informal private sector for door-to-door
collection. The collectors bring the waste to city-established decentralised SWM
stations where they segregate the wastes and sell it on to the secondary private sector.
The remainder is brought to the city dump for safe end disposal. Alternatively,
households already segregate the wastes at home, informal private collectors collect
them at the homes for processing/selling and different family members bring the
remaining waste to the TPS, where the city collects it for final disposal.
Cadres from the city health services and national women‘s programme and elected
leaders of the RTs, RWs and Kelurahans (lowest levels of local government) will
inform meetings of male and female heads of households in the neighbourhoods about
the options and help them make informed choices and plan, organise and test services.
Where forms of neighbourhood-based SWM are already practised, horizontal learning
will be encouraged. Under this strategy, the cities assist leading women and men from
the concerned neighbourhoods or groups to visit women groups and community
meetings in other communities to inform them, explain and demonstrate the processes
and product, invite participants to visit their communities for observations and
interviews and give hands-on training with an agreed compensation.
The city strategies will include special attention and measures to ensure that poor
women and men participate in learning and decision-making on partnerships in SWM:
- Extending information about and invitations to meetings;
- Using extension methods suitable for non-literate participants;
- Accounting for participation of poor women and men in trainings;
- Ensuring poor women‘s and men‘s shares in decision-making bodies and
sessions;
- Ensuring that procedures and documentation are gender and poverty
specific.
An important part of the SWM city strategies is the protection against environmental
and health risks of segregation, collection and recycling at home, by the employees of
the city service and by the men, women and children in the informal sector as
analysed by Cointreau and Hunt 37 . Better education and training, improved working
37 Cointreau, Sandra (2006). Occupational and Environmental Health Issues of Solid Waste
Management
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