Seychelles Solid Waste Management Project

The development objective of the Solid Waste Management Project for Seychelles is to enhance the financial and environmental performance of solid waste management in Seychelles. The project comprises of three components. The first component is strengthening operations and increasing disposal capacity at Providence landfill. It includes the dumpsite at Providence I, the existing sanitary landfill cell at Providence II, areas set aside for waste diversion, unutilized land, and ancillary infrastructure such as weigh bridge, offices, and the leachate treatment plant. The second component, institutional strengthening to improve solid waste management and to promote circularity aims to improve solid waste management and promote circularity by strengthening regulatory frameworks; increasing the participation of the private sector, the community, women and youth in waste management and circularity; and improving national capacity to manage solid waste. The third component, project management aims to support the incremental operating costs for the project implementation unit (PIU) and project management consultants, including measures to strengthen the capacity of the PIU to manage the environmental and social (E and S) risks of the project activities in accordance with the World Bank’s environmental and social management framework (ESMF), and maintaining the grievance mechanism.