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 Bago 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).
