Subnational | PANORAMA

Caribbean

Stimulating sustainable financing for long-term coral reef conservation in the Turks and Caicos Islands

Amílcar

Guzmán Valladares

Identifying mechanisms for long-term financing of protected areas and coral reef conservation

Building the case for increased funding for protected area and coral reef management

Building capacity to monitor and report impacts of coral reef conservation

Creation of employment

Beach clean ups by youth groups

Marine Watamu Associations

Creating plastic waste value chains by paying waste pickers per kg of plastic collected has created enterprising youth and women groups that have been able to eke a living as well as enhanced savings through micro finance facilities resulting in improved living standards.

Trained community groups have been able to become champions on circular economy as well as becoming agents of change through beach clean-ups as well as maintaining waste collection points.

The creation of employment must be complemented with training on the circular economy. This two lessons must complement one another in order to create a platform where circularity is accepted, understood and implemented.

Implementation

Subnational

Infrastructural development

Material recycling and treatment facility

Marine Watamu Associations

The established plastic treatment facility is very critical in developing pellets that were used to developed plastic upcycled products that were later sold as artifacts.

Investment in a waste collection vehicle to increase collection of plastic waste and expand operations of ramping up waste collection.

The availability of an established plastic waste value chain provided the raw material for the facility as well as partnerships ramped up waste from the hotels including training community groups to be waste management champions via Beach clean-ups and waste pickers.

Finding a market for the plastic pellets is very critical in providing sustainability of the plastic value chain and thus creating circularity in the plastic waste management mix that might involve upcycling, down cycling and treatment.

Implementation

Subnational

Partnerships

Art developed from plastc pellets

Marine Watamu Associations

Creating dynamic plastic waste value chains through collaboration between local community groups (youth, women) and the hotel industry. Where community groups collect and sort the waste. The value of partnership is very critical in ensuring streamlining circularity as well as ensuring synergies are pulled concertedly.

Partnering with hotels to source recyclable waste and training of hotel staff on best waste management was factor that accelerated organizing plastic waste collection, storage, and transport logistics within Watamu, Malindi, and Kilifi

There is value in creating meaningful partnerships through capacity building and providing incentives in creating circularity on waste management through training, dialogue, and engagement for the stakeholders to maximize their impact.

Planning phase

Inception phase

Subnational