Gaza Solid Waste Management Project

Abstract

1.1 Background The Gaza Solid Waste Management Project (GSWMP) is a comprehensive strategic infrastructure and capacity building project. Where Municipal Development and Lending Fund (MDLF) is managing the southern component of the project, with its financing partners: the France Development Agency (AFD), the European Union (EU), and the World Bank Group (WBG), in close cooperation with the Joint Service Council for Solid Waste Management in Khan Younis, Rafah and Middle Area (JSC KRM) and member municipalities. The southern component of the project is covering the service area of JSC KRM (3 of 5 governorates in Gaza Strip, namely the Middle Area, Khan Younis, and Rafah Governorates) comprising approximately 64% of Gaza Strip’s total geographic area inhabited by 46% of the total Gaza Strip’s population, or approximately 800,000 people according the 2014 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) projections. The GSWMP is aiming at improving solid waste management services in the Gaza Strip through the provision of efficient and environmentally-and socially-sound waste disposal schemes, and initiating measures to improve overall solid waste management systems. Through the GSWMP, a sanitary landfill is currently constructed in the southern region of Gaza Strip (Rafah) with capacity to serve the 3 governorates until year 2025, and to serve the entire Gaza Strip until the year 2040. The new facility will be equipped to operate at high standard and it will be complemented by a system of three solid waste transfer stations in southern part of Gaza Strip, one of which (Khan Younis) was constructed by …