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Resource Template
Waste Management Decision Support Tool
The Decision Support Tool is designed to guide decision-makers through a balanced high-level self-assessment of issues that will influence decision making. The DST poses a series of questions on Political, Environmental, Social, Technological, Legal and Economic (PESTLE) factors affecting the initiative in question. Each issue is scored whether the outcomes are positive or negative. The DST summarises responses and provides a graphical representation of the total forces for and against the initiative for each PESTLE category allowing for a quick and intuitive overview of relative benefits and weaknesses of the initiative.

Video Resource
Sustainable Financing for Waste Management Study Tour: 10 key elements that make a successful scheme
A short video to share findings from the Sustainable Financing for Waste Management Study Tour on 10 key elements that make a successful scheme. These elements may be useful for consideration as we design and build our schemes in the Pacific.

Booklet
GEDSI in Design of Sustainable Financing Scheme for Waste Management
This Guide for Considering Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) Factors is designed to assist decision-makers in the Pacific during the design, consultation, implementation, and monitoring of a Waste Management Sustainable Financing Scheme to ensure potential GEDSI implications are identified and appropriately addressed.

Regional
Webinar Report: Sustainable Financing for Waste Management
Report on an interactive webinar held on 28 June 2022, which presented opportunities for Pacific Island Countries to undertake peer-to-peer learning on the implementation or expansion of a Sustainable Financing for Waste Management scheme, and the launch of the Sustainable Financing for Waste Management in the Pacific community of practice on the Green Forum.

Regional
Step 1: Implementing an ARDF – Guidance on the 21 Step Pathway
Toolkit: ARD Guiding Documents: To assist countries to design their own effective ARFD schemes, an ARFD toolkit has been developed which is a series of 5 publications. Theses include:
1. Guidance on the 21 Step Pathway - Decisions and Actions Needed
2. ARFD Policy and Drafting Instructions,
3. Designing an ARFD Scheme - Key Questions Decision
4. Determining Scheme Partners – Roles and Responsibilities
5. Build it yourself- Guidance to Draft an ARFD Policy

Regional
Step 2: Determining Scheme Partners – Roles and Responsibilities
Toolkit: ARD Guiding Documents: To assist countries to design their own effective ARFD schemes, an ARFD toolkit has been developed which is a series of 5 publications. Theses include:
1. Guidance on the 21 Step Pathway - Decisions and Actions Needed
2. ARFD Policy and Drafting Instructions,
3. Designing an ARFD Scheme - Key Questions Decision
4. Determining Scheme Partners – Roles and Responsibilities
5. Build it yourself- Guidance to Draft an ARFD Policy

Regional
Step 3: Build it Yourself-Designing an ARFD Scheme – Key Questions and Decisions
Toolkit: ARD Guiding Documents: To assist countries to design their own effective ARFD schemes, an ARFD toolkit has been developed which is a series of 5 publications. Theses include:
1. Guidance on the 21 Step Pathway - Decisions and Actions Needed
2. ARFD Policy and Drafting Instructions,
3. Designing an ARFD Scheme - Key Questions Decision
4. Determining Scheme Partners – Roles and Responsibilities
5. Build it yourself- Guidance to Draft an ARFD Policy

Regional
Step 4: Example Table of Contents for ARFD Policy and Drafting Instructions
Toolkit: ARD Guiding Documents: To assist countries to design their own effective ARFD schemes, an ARFD toolkit has been developed which is a series of 5 publications. Theses include:
1. Guidance on the 21 Step Pathway - Decisions and Actions Needed
2. ARFD Policy and Drafting Instructions,
3. Designing an ARFD Scheme - Key Questions Decision
4. Determining Scheme Partners – Roles and Responsibilities
5. Build it yourself- Guidance to Draft an ARFD Policy

Regional
Step 5: Build it Yourself Guidance to Drafting ARFD Policy
Toolkit: ARD Guiding Documents: To assist countries to design their own effective ARFD schemes, an ARFD toolkit has been developed which is a series of 5 publications. Theses include:
1. Guidance on the 21 Step Pathway - Decisions and Actions Needed
2. ARFD Policy and Drafting Instructions,
3. Designing an ARFD Scheme - Key Questions Decision
4. Determining Scheme Partners – Roles and Responsibilities
5. Build it yourself- Guidance to Draft an ARFD Policy

Factsheet
Pathway for a Sustainable Financing Mechanism
The development of a sustainable financing mechanism to assist with funding the sound management of wastes is an opportunity for countries and territories to explore, especially given the current level of donor support on waste management.
The proposed pathway for sustainable financing mechanism outlines 21 priority steps around the topics of:
i) identification of the need for legislation
ii) research
iii) political will and support
iv) preliminary systems concept
v) feasibility study
vi) consultation
vii) confirmation of sustainable finance system design
viii) legal drafting
ix) implementation
x) monitoring, evaluation, and auditing.
It is envisaged that the Secretariat will assist Members to implement as well as coordinate this Pathway through the Cleaner Pacific 2025 and capitalising on current donor-funded projects such as the PacWastePlus programme, GEF ISLANDS, SWAP and JPRISM II as well as any new projects that would be mobilised as part of the proposed pathway

Factsheet
Advanced Recovery Fee & Deposit Systems
Advanced Recovery Fee & Deposit Systems are legislative instruments designed to create a way to sustainably finance waste management and recycling. In the Pacific, Advanced Recovery Fee & Deposit systems currently operating are called a Container Deposit, Beverage Deposit, Advanced Disposal Fee, or a Waste Levy. These systems create a legal framework that provides households an incentive to recycle, as a deposit is placed on products on import or manufacture, typically included in the sale price. When the item is returned to a deposit location, a redemption of the initial deposit is paid back to the consumer. A small portion of the deposit is retained by the government to fund the collection, transport and processing of the item. These systems have proven successful around the world to encourage recovery of end-of-life products,
and to ensure governments have access to enough funding to ensure these items are diverted from landfills and successfully recovered for recycling.
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