Project profile — Solid Household Waste Management Consolidation Project

• Benin (100.00%)

• Basic Health: Infectious disease control (12250) (30.00%)
• Water And Sanitation: Waste management/disposal (14050) (70.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (significant objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (significant objective)

The goal of the project is to help to improve the health and sanitation conditions of the population of Cotonou and Ouidah in Benin. The purposes of the project are to consolidate the achievements of Phase I (2001-2004) and Phase II (2004-2009) of the solid household waste management project, to strengthen the effectiveness and sustainability of the waste management systems put in place in these two municipalities.

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Results achieved as of November 2010 (end of project): Pre-collection performance (household collection) has increased in Ouidah, and another 6 waste collection and sorting stations have been built in Cotonou. A team of sanitation workers in the city of Cotonou keeps main thoroughfares clean. Pre collection intervention and control strategies have been developed and are being applied by the cities of Cotonou and Ouidah. Cotonou has budgeted 1.7 billion CFA francs for waste management in 2010. Ouidah has budgeted 25 million CFA francs. About 35 percent of the area of the Houéyiho market-gardening site is cultivated using compost produced by recycling green waste. Recycling other waste generated more revenue in 2009. The project helped to improve sanitation in the cities of Cotonou and Ouidah. These two cities now have reliable solid household waste management systems.

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