Three
hundred entrepreneurs in Mwanza and Tanga, participated in a two-day session
geared to stimulate learning, exchange and developing viable business models in
management of waste.
Bringing
together their varied backgrounds and experiences in waste management, the participants
were excited to learn and exchange knowledge about solid waste business opportunities ranging from
crafting decorations, making furniture and animal feed.
Enabel supported
the learning as an implementer of the EU funded Inclusive, Green and Smart
Cities Programme (SASA).
Under SASA
programme, Enabel leads INCLU-CITIES project that focuses on sustainable urban
development to create resilient, inclusive and environmentally friendly cities
that can thrive in the face of future challenges.
Developing
viable businesses in the circular economy is at the centre of Enabel’s
activities under INCLU-CITIES in three urban areas— Mwanza, and Tanga on
Tanzania Mainland and Pemba in Zanzibar.
The training
rooms vibrated with ideas and insights, as trainers probed entrepreneurs to
approach waste not only as a resource for petty income but commercial viable
businesses.
In Tanga, an
exhibition of products from waste recycling and reusing preceded indoor
sessions while in Mwanza, a street clean up session followed indoor sessions.
Tanga produces 230 tons of solid waste every day.
The City council collects 60%
of these and private waste management entrepreneur’s process up to 40%,
“With the
collaboration with INCLU-CITIES, we need to increase the capacity of private
entrepreneurs to process a higher percentage of the current and future waste as
viable businesses,” said Kizito Mkwabi, Tanga City Environment and Sanitation
Officer.
Enabel
support will catalyse circular economy entrepreneurs to up their game through
acquisition of technology, capital, networks and markets for products and
services.
To achieve this multi-pronged objective Enabel collaborates with
multiple partners: municipal authorities in Mwanza and Tanga and implementing
partners—Rikolto, TRIAS, Westerwelle, Financial Sector Deepening Trust,
Vocational Education Training Authority (VETA) and Small Industries Development
Organization (SIDO).
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