Bago Waste Project

Bago Waste Project The Bago Waste Project is a collaboration between Bago based actors and the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA). b. c.

The project aims to build capacity to tackle waste pollution and reduce the environmental impacts of waste in the region. Myanmar and the Bago Region suffer from waste and pollution issues that cause environmental problems and societal risks, which are especially visible along the Bago River. The Bago River connects land-based waste contamination sources with the marine environment, which the Bag

o Waste project seeks to tackle through following outcomes:
a. Improved waste management infrastructure and systems for waste management from land-based sources. Clean up waste from selected rivers and contribute to proper management of plastic waste. Improve private sector's responsible production, use, and management of waste. This is a three-year project (2020-2022), linked to the bilateral Myanmar-Norway Environmental Programme (2019-2023). The Bago Waste project builds on another project, the Integrated Water Resources Management Institution building and Training project phase I (IWRM I project), a collaboration with Watershed management Division Forest Department, MONREC (2015-2018), and it will be affiliated with the IWRM project phase II (2019-2023). There has since March 2021 been a freeze of programme activities with the Bago Government, but activities with private and civil society actors continue. The project is co-ordinated by the Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Oslo and funded by The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Myanmar (Yangon).

22/03/2024

We have been working with monasteries in the Bago region to introduce better composting solutions and enhance circularity. Please have a look to find out more.

A report presenting a comprehensive summary of the key results from the project ‘Capacity building on waste management i...
18/01/2024

A report presenting a comprehensive summary of the key results from the project ‘Capacity building on waste management in the Bago Region’ (in short: ‘Bago Waste project’) is published. This report summarises the project’s approach, activities, and impacts. It provides insights into the organisation and governance of the waste management sector in Bago township, examines the scale of the waste management issues, investigates the formal and informal waste sector, assesses macroplastic pollution of the Bago River and reflects on the project interventions (pilot cases) that were possible to implement both before and after the coup, while also detailing the educational components (e.g. awareness raising) that were key to the project approach. The report is available here: https://niva.brage.unit.no/niva-xmlui/handle/11250/3108455

The Bago Waste project worked with partners and local neighborhood groups to clean and rehabilitate a site that was used...
06/02/2023

The Bago Waste project worked with partners and local neighborhood groups to clean and rehabilitate a site that was used for indiscriminate dumping of waste along the Bago river, in the centre of the city – constituting a significant local source of marine litter. This work was ongoing from 2020-21 with monitoring activities afterwards. In this factsheet we describe and evaluate this approach. Please read to find out more. :)
https://mnenvironment.files.wordpress.com/2023/02/bago-waste-factsheet-project-factsheet.pdf

A report, Towards improved waste management in Bago Region, Myanmar - An initial assessment has been published being ava...
16/03/2022

A report, Towards improved waste management in Bago Region, Myanmar - An initial assessment has been published being available for download here https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2981667. The baseline report draws on research carried out as part of the ‘Bago Waste’ project, led by NIVA with support from Ye Htun Aung (MJT) and Kyaw Min San (Justice for All). It provides an initial assessment of the waste management situation in Myanmar, with special reference to one of its administrative Regions (Bago). We explore the waste governance system in Myanmar with respect to relevant national laws, policies and strategies, in addition to examining current waste management practices. The report delves into emerging trends in waste management on the global policy scene, as well as examining common policy approaches that drive the shift towards greater circularity.

03/01/2022

The Bago Waste project wishes everyone a happy new year, with hopes and wishes for a more peaceful, healthy and happy 2022, after a challenging 2021!

The project is continuing with its work to improve the environmental and waste management situation in Bago with our local partners. In this video, some of the waste management challenges and ongoing work in Bago township are highlighted.

NIVA and Bago Waste project partners in consultation with Buddhist Monks at Win Nane Mi Ta Yone Monastery at Bago City, ...
13/11/2021

NIVA and Bago Waste project partners in consultation with Buddhist Monks at Win Nane Mi Ta Yone Monastery at Bago City, Myanmar on 10th November 2021. As part of the dialogue on awareness raising and building waste management capacity, lunch was arranged and provided by the project.
၁၀/၁၁/၂၀၂၁ - နော်ဝေ ရေသုတေသန အဖွဲ့၏ နေ့ဆွမ်းအလှူ။ ဝင်းနိမ္မိတာရုံဘုန်းတော်ကြီးကျောင်း၊ ပဲခူးမြို့မှာပါ။

On the 12th of November, the Bago Waste Project organised a roundtable on ' Knowledge sharing with private waste managem...
12/11/2021

On the 12th of November, the Bago Waste Project organised a roundtable on ' Knowledge sharing with private waste management companies: Challenges and opportunities in Myanmar' with five companies from across Myanmar. This was the first in a series of conversations to network, share knowledge and analyse opportunities and challenges that waste management stakeholders face – from the collection of household waste, fee systems, recycling to technological aspects of safe disposal. We thank all the participants for their active role and attendance.

English version of flyer: Selected monasteries in Bago are identified as cases for promoting responsible waste managemen...
02/11/2021

English version of flyer: Selected monasteries in Bago are identified as cases for promoting responsible waste management. Monasteries are important institutions for education of men and women and therefore for awareness raising on waste management. Responsible waste management refers to, effective segregation of waste, recycling and reuse of waste, and collection of waste for the reduction of litter in the nature and in oceans originating from Myanmar.

Selected monasteries in Bago are identified as cases for promoting responsible waste management. Monasteries are importa...
01/11/2021

Selected monasteries in Bago are identified as cases for promoting responsible waste management. Monasteries are important institutions for education of men and women and therefore for awareness raising on waste management. Responsible waste management refers to, effective segregation of waste, recycling and reuse of waste, and collection of waste for the reduction of litter in the nature and in oceans originating from Myanmar.

ပဲခူးမြို့ရှိ ဘုန်းတော်ကြီးကျောင်းများတွင် တာဝန်ယူမှုရှိသော စွန့်ပစ်ပစ္စည်းစီမံခန့်ခွဲမှုဆိုင်ရာ ရှေ့ပြေးဆောင်ရွက်ချက်များ
ပဲခူးမြို့တွင် တာဝန်ယူမှုရှိသော စွန့်ပစ်ပစ္စည်းစီမံခန့်ခွဲမှုစနစ် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်လာစေရန် ဘုန်းတော်ကြီးကျောင်းများကို ရွေးချယ်၍ ရှေ့ပြေးစီမံချက်အဖြစ် သတ်မှတ်ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။ ဘုန်းတော်ကြီးကျောင်းများသည် အမျိုးသား များနှင့် အမျိုးသမီးများ၏ အခြေခံပညာရေးအတွက် အရေးပါသော အဖွဲ့အစည်းများဖြစ်သည့်နည်းတူ စွန့်ပစ်ပစ္စည်း စီမံခန့်ခွဲမှုဆိုင်ရာ အသိပညာမြှင့်တင်ပေးခြင်းအတွက်လည်း အရေးပါသည့်နေရာများလည်းဖြစ်သည်။ တာဝန်ယူမှုရှိ သော စွန့်ပစ်ပစ္စည်းစီမံခန့်ခွဲမှုဟုဆိုရာတွင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအတွင်းမှ သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်နှင့် သမုဒ္ဒရာများအတွင်းသို့ စွန့်ပစ်အမှိုက်များရောက်ရှိခြင်းကို လျှော့ချရန်အတွက် ထိရောက်သည့်အမှိုက်များသိမ်းဆည်းခြင်း၊ စွန့်ပစ်ပစ္စည်းများ အား အမျိုးအစားခွဲခြားစွန့်ပစ်ခြင်း၊ စွန့်ပစ်အမှိုက်များအားအသုံးဝင်သော ပစ္စည်းများအဖြစ် ပြန်လည်ပြုပြင်ထုတ်လုပ် ခြင်းနှင့်

The Bago Waste Project organised a successful interactive session on waste management issues together with Laik Pyar Kan...
25/10/2021

The Bago Waste Project organised a successful interactive session on waste management issues together with Laik Pyar Kan and Dhamma Gone Yi Nun Monasteries on 23 and 24 October 2021. The purpose was to raise awareness on waste management, receive feedback on the most pressing issues that the monasteries and its residents face in that regard, and install pilot waste management systems (including on segregation and reduction on plastic waste.). A stakeholder consultation was held with the residents with active participation and group work of the residents . The event was co-organised by project partners NIVA, Justice for All as well as MJT, and included a donation towards the nun monasteries. Collaboration will continue to assess needs and local conditions, to ensure a sustainable system that encourages reduction, re-use and recycling of materials.

The Bago waste project has established a collaboration with the Thar Ma Nay Kyaw Monastery located in Bago township for ...
28/08/2021

The Bago waste project has established a collaboration with the Thar Ma Nay Kyaw Monastery located in Bago township for improved waste management.
ပဲခူးမြို့ အမှိုက်စီမံခန့်ခွဲမှု တိုးတက်စေရန်အလို့ငှါ ပဲခူး အမှိုက်စီမံကိန်းနှင့် ပဲခူးမြို့ရှိ သာမဏေကျော် ဘုန်းကြီးကျောင်း တို့ ပူးပေါင်း၍ ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။

The collaboration was initiated in April 2021 by exploring an interest from the monastery to become a case in the project.
စီမံကိန်းတွင်ပါဝင်ရန်အလို့ငှါ ဘုန်းကြီး​ကျောင်း ၏ စိတ်ဝင်စားမှု ဖြင့် ၂၀၂၁ ဧပြီလတွင် ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်မှု ကို စတင်ခဲ့ပါသည်။

At the initial meetings with the deputy monk and senior monks, the project team presented the project objectives, background and activities in Bago since its start in January 2020.
တိုက်အုပ်ဆရာတော် နှင့် ဆရာတော်များ ဖြင့်
ပြုလုပ်သော ပဏာမ အစည်းအဝေး တွင် စီမံကိန်းအဖွဲ့မှ ၂၀၂၀ ဇန်နဝါရီလကတည်းက စတင်ခဲ့သော
စီမံကိန်း ရည်ရွယ်ချက် နောက်ခံအခြေအနေ နှင့် လုပ်ငန်းများ ကို တင်ပြခဲ့ပါသည်။

After an agreement to co-operate, activities and communication were established to better understand the current waste management situation and associated challenges.
ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ရန် သဘောတူညီမှုနှင့်အတူ လက်ရှိ အမှိုက်စီမံခန့်ခွဲမှု အခြေအနေနှင့် စိန်ခေါ်မှုများကို ကောင်းစွာ နားလည်ရန် ဆက်သွယ်ဆောင်ရွက်မှုများကို တည်ထောင်လုပ်ဆောင်ခဲ့ပါသည်။

For the past 3 months, awareness raising activities, and establishment of sustainable waste management infrastructure have been ongoing.
လွန်ခဲ့သော ၃ လ က အသိပညာပေးလုပ်ဆောင်မှုများနှင့် ရေရှည်စဉ်ဆက်မပြက် အမှိုက်စီမံခန့်ခွဲမှု တည်ဆောက်မှု ကို လုပ်ဆောင်ခဲ့ပါသည်။

On 12th July 2021, 10 sets of waste bins( 30 waste bins in total) allowing for segregation of plastic, organic waste and recycling were installed at the monastery.
၂၀၂၁ ခု ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၂ ရက်နေ့တွင် အမှိုက်ပုံးအလုံး၃၀ (၁၀စုံ) ကို ပလက်စတစ် ၊ ဆွေးမြေ့လွယ်သည့်အမှိုက် နှင့် ပြန်လည် အသုံးပြုနိုင်သည့် အမှိုက်ဟူ၍ ခွဲခြားထားသည့် ပုံစံဖြင့် ဘုန်းကြီးကျောင်းဝင်းတွင် စတင် ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။

An interactive seminar to receive feedback with the resident monks was held on 13 July 2021 to consult and discuss the course of action on waste management, with a focus on plastic waste.
ကျောင်းတွင်းသီတင်းသုံးနေထိုင်သည့် ရဟန်းများထံမှ ဝေဖန်အကြံပြုချက်များ ကိုရရှိရန် အပြန်အလှန် တက်ကြွသည့် ဆွေးနွေးမှု ကို ၂၀၂၁ ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၃ ရက်တွင်ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ပြီး ပလက်စတစ် ကို အခြေပြုလျက် အမှိုက်စီမံခန့်ခွဲမှု လက်တွေ့လုပ်ဆောင်မှု ဘာသာရပ်အား ဆွေးနွေးတိုင်ပင်ကြပါသည်။

0n 21th August 2021 , project team and local partner visited to the Monastery and monitoring on the development of wastes management system there.
၂၀၂၁ ဩဂုက်လ ၂၁ ရက်တွင် စီမံကိန်းအဖွဲ့နှင့် ဒေသခံ မိတ်ဖက်များ က ဘုန်းကြီးကျောင်းသို့ သွားရောက်၍ အမှိုက်စီမံခန့်ခွဲမှု ဖွံ့ဖြိုးမှုအခြေအနေ ကို လေ့လာကြပါသည်။

Follow up activities to monitor the situation are in progress, including quantitative assessments on waste types and amounts.
နောက်ဆက်တွဲလေ့လာဆောင်ရွက်မှု များကို ဆက်လက် တိုးတက်လုပ်ဆောင်လျက်ရှိပြီး အမှိုက်အမျိုးအစားနှင့် ပမာဏ များအား အရေအတွက် အချက်အလက်ဆိုင်ရာ သုတေသန ပြုမှုကို လုပ်ဆောင်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။

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