RCE Kano-2013
1. Name of RCE :
RCE Kano
2. Continent:
Africa and Middle East
3. Country:
Nigeria
5. Project Title:
Waste for Wealth Program
7.Project Partner Contact Information Provide information about the main contacts for the project. :
Organization:
Ecosec Nig. Ltd.
Role:
Major sponsor
Main Contact:
Ali Ahmad, MD Ecosec and Director Research, No. 100, Tarauni Maiduguri Road, Kano. 07038792828
Organization:
The Local ward leadership of Dorayi ward Kano
Role:
Public awareness and sensitization
Main Contact:
The ward Head of Dorayi Quarters Office, Panshekara Road, Dorayi, Kano
9. Project Description Provide a short description of the project including regional challenges it addresses, its aims as well as project activities/strategies Allow text field (character count 500 words):
The project is about providing four big polyethene bags of different colors free to a house hold in a low income and densely populated area of a municipality. The household is expected when disposing refuse to sort the components out and separate them in the provided bags, perishables from non, metals from glasses and polyethene from papers. The glasses and bottles are sold to be reused; the metals are sold to vendors of metals recycling companies. Eight five percent of the money generated is remitted back to the household the collected the same refuse. Small but strong polyethene back called pure water bags are given out free to the flower seedling vendors to plant new ones and save money for buying same from the market. After a short while it has curtailed the in discriminate dumping of refuse in poor and densely populated areas, the once under survey. In has increased significantly the household income of partakers and clean the environment. Consequently it has addressed in a small scale huge regional challenges of dirty and unhealthy environment and chronic poverty.
12. Duration of the Project Start Date: End date::
Friday, February 1, 2013 to Tuesday, February 3, 2015
14. What are the current results of the project in terms of outputs (e.g. publications, developed practices, course materials)? Character count 300 words:
It is getting popular by the day and even those that are not in the list of the RCE on this project are emulating those in the list on their own.
15. What are the expected/confirmed outcomes (e.g. impact of the project) Character count 400 words:
Cleaner environment, income generation recycling and reuse are all uplifted popularized with amazing passion and acceleration in the period under survey.
16. Are there any unexpected/unplanned results achieved by your project? If yes, briefly describe or list them . Character count 200 words.:
Yes – People started fighting on refuse and some cases of stealing of refuse under the same project were reported though not confirm by the editor of this report.
17. What are the remaining challenges and/or limitations for further development? Character count 300 words.:
Lack of fund, trucks and refuse conveyance vehicle. Secondly people still do not know how best the program coordinators want them to separate their refuse.
The income is every minimal since the households are very poor and the refuse very small in size too.So the 15 % deduction from the money generated is often not enough to take care of the expenses being incurred .
The income is every minimal since the households are very poor and the refuse very small in size too.So the 15 % deduction from the money generated is often not enough to take care of the expenses being incurred .
18. What is the project’s contribution to innovative and transformative educational processes for sustainable development (especially regarding formal and/ non-formal learning/research)? Character count 500 words:
It has demonstrated that a slum can be as clean as a government reserved area through informal and non formal practical education and action. And that what one thinks is a waste may actually be a wealth. More importantly it has shown that sustainability is in everything and everywhere and that everyone can contribute to it from his own patch world.
19.How can you scale up and mainstream ESD and SD practices of the project and enable it to contribute to the implementation of the Global Action Programme (GAP) as proposed by UNESCO? (max 300 words):
The project areas should be increased and organic components of the refuse be researched into in order to bring out the underutilized components- for example.
Used and discarded Pure water empty bags that litter the street are now being used to plant flower seedlings
Used and discarded Pure water empty bags that litter the street are now being used to plant flower seedlings
20. How does you project contribute institutional and policy reforms as part of sustainability change? Character count 500 words:
It has contributed in the three Rs reuse, recycle and refurbish campaigns of the governments. The project also reduced the used of new and fresh materials for sustainability
21. How does your project further improve capacities of various partners and stakeholders on the theme? Character count 500 words.:
New possibilities are being thought of by all that are involved. It has opened a new frontiers in the areas of research and development sociologically and environmentally.
22.What is the significance of this project for developing global linkages in order to strengthen activities in this area? (max 250 words):
Involve refuse management agency and the local government in order for the program to be broader and known to the larger society. Link up with recycling industries at home and abroad.
23. What is novel about the project within the RCE network and what could other RCEs learn from this experience? (Answer only if relevant) Character count 250 words.:
The novel is that there is wealth in waste and everything that becomes valuable turn to be scarce. We can learn that community engagement is the best way to solve local problem
24. What is the significance of this project for the region? How important are its results for its particular project category? Character count 250 words.:
It has reduced drastically the amount of refuse in the streets of the areas under survey. It has also increased the income level of the household of the community out of their own refuse. It will in future help in increasing the amount of local manure use in our farms which will supplement the acute shortage of fertilizer being experienced every rainy season
Region:
Africa and Middle East
