The Government of Seychelles has reached out to the World Bank for assistance in financing the Seychelles Solid Waste Project (P181243), which aims to promote sustainable solid waste management (SWM) and circularity in Seychelles. The project is currently under preparation and is supposed to be completed in five years with a series of documents to be produced before final approval.
The proposed project aims to promote sustainable solid waste management and circularity in Seychelles. It will support Seychelles in addressing its urgent challenges in SWM, in line with its SWMP. Improving SWM in Seychelles will set the country on a long-term path towards a circular economy, in which resources are re-used, waste is minimized and there is a reduced need for landfilling.
To meet the overall project objectives Project will focus on three components:
Component 1: Improving the Solid Waste Management System. Strengthening operations and increasing disposal capacity at Providence Landfill. This component aims to improve the design and management of the landfill infrastructure through a DBO (Design-Build-Operate) contract.
Component 2: The project will support the entrepreneurial circular economy ecosystem through gender-smart training modules.
Institutional strengthening to improve solid waste management and to promote circularity.
Component 3: Project Management. This component 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 & Social risks of the project activities.
This Information disclosure is undertaken to provide stakeholders with sufficient information on project risks and impacts, as well as potential opportunities. It consists of the following:
- Purpose, nature and scale of the project;
- Landfill interventions
- Duration of proposed project activities.
- Potential risks and impacts of the project on local communities, and the proposals for mitigating these, highlighting potential risks and impacts that might disproportionately affect vulnerable and disadvantaged groups and describing the differentiated measures taken to avoid and minimize these.
- Proposed stakeholder engagement process, including ways in which stakeholders can participate.