waste management

Sakita paid a courtesy call on the JICA Resident Representative Naoki Takechi to see how the organisation could help the municipal council.

He had informed Lord Mayor Albert Daniel, Port Vila councilors and PVMC staff that it is his "vision to take the council to another step."

"I have discovered during my short time with the Council that waste management need to be established on its own while the JICA funded heavy machines in the dump site could not be fixed by our mechanics," Sakita told Takechi during the visit.

Work towards the transformation of the waste management on the small island has been made possible through close collaboration between key players working in the waste sector.

The key players also include donors, regional agencies, national and local government, local agencies, private sector, NGOs and community members.

Majuro atoll in Republic of the Marshall Islands is the site of the PacWaste project's integrated atoll waste management pilot programme.

On 25 August, 2016 at SPREP's Apia headquarters, representatives from both agencies formally signed the Meeting Minutes related to the formulation of the second phase of the Japanese Technical Cooperation Project for Promotion of Regional Initiative on Solid Waste Management in Pacific Island Countries, known as J-PRISM II.

PacWaste is a €7.85 million, four year project funded by the European Union and implemented by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to improve regional hazardous waste management across the Pacific.

Called 'Smart choices for a cleaner, safer Pacific' the poster promotes a range of simple actions that contribute to reduced waste and increased resilience.