Morocco Municipal Solid Waste Management Support Program

The objective of the Municipal Solid Waste Management Support Program for Morocco is to enhance the financial and environmental performance of the Municipal Solid Waste Management sector in the program area. Building on both the achievements and the lessons learned from the PNDM, the GoM has laid down the foundations for a new MSW management vision. To tackle the persisting environmental and financial challenges in MSW, the GoM formulated a new sector development program, the PNVDM spanning over twelve (12) years (2023-2034), with an estimated investment plan of US 2.18 billion dollars. The PNVDM materializes the Government’s vision to gradually shift to a more environmentally sustainable MSW service management, through minimized landfilling and improved waste recovery, while also keeping a focus on the financial viability of the proposed business models. In this context, the PNVDM aims at (a) ensuring a universal coverage of professionalized waste collection in urban areas; (b) improving MSW valorization rates, from 7 to 25 percent in 2034; (c) upgrading the country’s-controlled landfills and establishing new ones when relevant; and (d) closing of a number of abandoned uncontrolled landfills. To ensure enhanced sector performance and business models viability, private sector participation has been embedded as one of the key pillars of the PNVDM with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between key sector public stakeholders and the cement industry to secure the offtake of RDF by cement factories. This would allow for the development of viable industrial processes for the recycling and recovery of MSW and hence minimize waste landfilling, in line with the objectives of the PNVDM26. A detailed description of investments to be carried out under the PNVDM is provided in the Program’s technical assessment’s background document. Complementing the investment efforts, the GoM has launched a set of policy, institutional and regulatory reforms as well as...