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Waste Audit Methodology: A Common Approach

A step-by-step manual for conducting comprehensive country waste audits in SIDs.

Over the course of 2018–19, it has also become apparent that there are a number of organisations currently working in this space with very similar requirements for waste data. Therefore, based on waste audits commissioned by PRIF in Tuvalu, a waste audit methodology has been developed that incorporates the materials required for national baseline data collection for the following projects as a minimum:

SPREP – PacWastePlus, PRIF – Regional Recycling Network, EU – EDF11, CCOA – Commonwealth Clean Oceans Alliance, World Bank – Regional Recycling Network, and UNEP – GEF

This report presents a comprehensive data collection methodology that makes provision for the data collection requirements for the above projects.

Stocktake of Existing and Pipeline Waste Legislation in Vanuatu

This report contains the University of Melbourne (UoM) team’s findings relating to a stocktake of the existing legislative environment for waste management in the participating countries, focusing on the PacWastePlus priority waste streams of healthcare waste, asbestos, e-waste, plastic waste, recyclables, organics, disaster waste, bulky waste and wastewater, and including implementing legislation for the following multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs): Waigani, Basel, Stockholm, Rotterdam, and Minamata. It also includes a stocktake of pipeline legislative initiatives in the participating countries, including an assessment of their impact and approximate timeframe for development. This report provides details on a stocktake of existing and pipeline Waste Legislations in Vanuatu.

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PacWaste Plus Programme Inception Meeting Report 2019

The PacWaste Plus programme Inception meeting provided all country representatives, and the programme staff to come together and discuss the programme and determine how they would collectively like to see actions occur. The two day meeting was a success as country and CROP representatives were able to actively contribute to discussions, provide feedback on the past project and how they would like to see things operate differently in the PacWastePlus project, and provide the programme staff with high level guidance on the priorities and needs of their countries. The following report provides a summary of discussions and provides details of the discussions and priorities identified by the countries present for the meeting.