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About PROVIDE project

The rapidly growing urban centres in Africa are facing major problems in clean water, sanitation and solid waste management, as also has been acknowledged in formulating the Millenium Development Goals. UN-Habitat has identified the Lake Victoria region as a priority area in achieving the Millennium Development Goals of halving the number of people without access to safe drinking water and sanitation by 2015.

The PROVIDE program focuses on and contributes to the improvement of sanitation and solid waste management in East Africa (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania) with an emphasis on the Lake Victoria Region. The program has started in 2006, and is funded by INREF, Wageningen University.

The academic research program is closely linked to a wide network of international agencies, national policy-makers, local municipalities, NGOs, CBOs and private enterprises. It aims to develop the knowledge base and the relevant networks for developing and applying an integrated approach – labeled modernized mixtures approach.

Access of the (urban) poor to viable and robust environmental infrastructures for the provision of water, sanitation and waste-services, should be regarded as key-issue for realizing the goal of sustainable development.

Boost for the sanitation MDG!

Tuesday, 21 June, the Secretary-General of the UN, Ban Ki-Moon, aided by representatives of UNICEF, the Ugandan Government and HRH Prince Willem-Alexander (on behalf of UNSGAB) has announced a new campaing to improve sanitation progress for the reaching of the relevant Millennium Development Goal by 2015.
The 'Sustainable Sanitation: Five-Year Drive to 2015' program acknowledged the limited progress achieved so far, and is a welcome initiative for improving sanitation for all worldwide.

More information can be obtained at the new site of SanitationDrive2015.

PROVIDE member meets Uganda's President

Mrs. Judith Tukahirwa, a Ugandan PhD researcher of PROVIDE and currently officer at KCCA (Kampala Capital City Authority) has met the President of Uganda during work and explained him her vision on Kampala's waste management.
It is not everyday, that a scientist can turn research results into practical applications. Members of the PROVIDE program congratulate Mrs. Tukahirwa with her achievement and wish her success in implementing 'modernized mixtures' in Kampala's waste management sector!

The newspaper mention of the sory can be read at the news section of Sunday Vision.

Mrs. Tukahirwa's latest paper about NGO participation in Kampala's waste management can be accessed at the site of the publishing journal, Habitat International.

Two grants for PROVIDE PhD researcher

Judith Tukahirwa was granted a full scholarship by Wageningen University and Research Centre to participate in the 2nd Executive Education Course on Sustainable Development Diplomacy (SDD) that took place from 6 to 20 June 2010. This course was jointly organized by the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University in Boston, Wageningen University and Research Centre from the Netherlands (WUR), the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV), in cooperation with the Sustainability Challenge Foundation (SCF).

Mrs.Tukahirwa also won a Marie Curie grant for the Summer School “Architectures for Earth System Governance – the Distributional Implications of Environmental Change and Governance”, scheduled to take place on October 4-13, 2010 in Berlin. This grant was also awarded folllowing a rigorous selection of a great number of candidatures by a two-stage review procedure. At the subsequent conference of 'Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change', Mrs.Tukahirwa will also present a paper on her PROVIDE research. At this conference two other PhD researchers: Mrs. Christine Majale and Mrs. Aisa Soloman will attend and present as well.

PROVIDE member promoted

Dr. James Okot-Okumu, a Ugandan member and supervisor within the PROVIDE group, was appointed to be head of department at his institution at Makerere University. He is now officially Head of the Department of Environmental Management in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. This function was awarded him after a reorganization at Makerere University. Makerere University is located in Kampala, Uganda and is one of the oldest universities on the African continent.

Triple visit of PROVIDE PhD's to 25th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management

Last March, the 25th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management held in Philadelphia (USA) was also attended by three PROVIDE researchers.

With participants from five continents, this interdisciplinary conference was a useful forum for learning. Technology related topics on solid waste included energy recovery; landfill management; hazardous and industrial waste technologies; and recycling and collection matters. Policy related topics covered issues as solid waste policy; public involvement and education; integrated management and innovative research.

The Provide group got a platform to disseminate information and knowledge on the Modernized Mixtures Approach. The presented topics were solid waste management at the household level (Mrs.Aisa Solomon), the contribution of CBOs and NGOs to SWM (Mrs.Judith Tukahirwa) and municipal level waste policy in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania (Mrs. Christine Majale). Valuable feedbacks and an interesting discussion followed the presentations. The main interest was targeted towards the integration of social and technical aspects in the different waste management problems, the role of CBOs and NGOs in slum settlements and the SWM cooperation of municipalities at the regional level.

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