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    Country Profile On The Solid Waste Management Situation In: Yemen

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    Yemen generates approximately 3.8 million tons of municipal solid waste annually, which has been growing at 3% per year. However, solid waste management in Yemen is inadequate, with only 65% collection coverage in urban areas and 5% in rural areas. Most of the waste is openly dumped (68%) rather than being properly disposed of through methods such as composting, recycling, or landfilling. There are policies and plans to improve solid waste management, such as adopting new laws to define roles and responsibilities. However, these policies have not been fully implemented due to a lack of proper legal frameworks and institutional capacity at the local level.

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    Yemen generates approximately 3.8 million tons of municipal solid waste annually, which has been growing at 3% per year. However, solid waste management in Yemen is inadequate, with only 65% collection coverage in urban areas and 5% in rural areas. Most of the waste is openly dumped (68%) rather than being properly disposed of through methods such as composting, recycling, or landfilling. There are policies and plans to improve solid waste management, such as adopting new laws to define roles and responsibilities. However, these policies have not been fully implemented due to a lack of proper legal frameworks and institutional capacity at the local level.

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    Yemen generates approximately 3.8 million tons of municipal solid waste annually, which has been growing at 3% per year. However, solid waste management in Yemen is inadequate, with only 65% collection coverage in urban areas and 5% in rural areas. Most of the waste is openly dumped (68%) rather than being properly disposed of through methods such as composting, recycling, or landfilling. There are policies and plans to improve solid waste management, such as adopting new laws to define roles and responsibilities. However, these policies have not been fully implemented due to a lack of proper legal frameworks and institutional capacity at the local level.

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    Country Profile On The Solid Waste Management Situation In: Yemen

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    Yemen generates approximately 3.8 million tons of municipal solid waste annually, which has been growing at 3% per year. However, solid waste management in Yemen is inadequate, with only 65% collection coverage in urban areas and 5% in rural areas. Most of the waste is openly dumped (68%) rather than being properly disposed of through methods such as composting, recycling, or landfilling. There are policies and plans to improve solid waste management, such as adopting new laws to define roles and responsibilities. However, these policies have not been fully implemented due to a lack of proper legal frameworks and institutional capacity at the local level.

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    The Regional Solid Waste Exchange of Information and


    Expertise network in Mashreq and Maghreb countries

    Country profile on the solid waste


    management situation in YEMEN
    April 2014

    Population:

    24,5 million (2012)

    Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Generation:

    3,8 million tons (2012)

    Per Capita MSW Generation:


    - Urban areas

    0.6 kg/day

    - Rural areas

    0.35 kg/day

    MSW Generation Growth:

    3%

    Medical waste generation:

    3,916 tons/year (2010)

    Industrial waste:

    No available data

    Hazardous waste:

    20,917 tons/ year (2010)

    Agricultural waste:

    No available data

    C&D Waste:

    No available data

    Waste Tyres:

    No available data

    e-Waste:

    No available data

    Packaging Waste:

    No available data

    TECHNICAL PERFORMANCE
    Municipal Waste
    MSW Collection Coverage:
    - Rural areas

    5%

    - Urban areas

    65%

    MSW Final Destination:


    - Composted

    0%

    - Recycled

    6.7 %

    - Landfilled

    26 %

    - Openly dumped

    68 %

    Number of Dumpsites:

    21

    Number of Controlled Landfills:

    Number of Sanitary Landfills:


    0

    - Under construction

    - Constructed

    - Operational

    Hazardous and industrial waste


    Number of hazardous landfills or plants
    (Chemical and physical treatment):
    - Planned

    Authorities have agreed on general solid waste principals and


    policies for Yemen and test them in the field through one or several pilot projects. These policies were further developed into the
    National Strategy for Solid Waste Management for the Republic
    of Yemen.

    Legal framework
    Strategic action number 1 and 2 were concentrated on amendment of the public cleaning law and cleaning funds law in order
    to be concert with the new improvements and technical requirements in the SWM sector like transferring of tasks and responsibilities to local councils on district level. In view of this, SWMP/
    GIZ had studied the amendments of the public cleaning law and
    cleaning funds law and by-laws in cooperation with the Ministry
    of Local Administration and committees specialized in cleaning
    and local authority as well as legislation in order to present these
    two laws and by-laws to the cabinet for approval.
    Currently, the Public Cleaning Law and Cleaning Funds Law are
    adopted by the Cabinet and passed to Parliament but not yet get
    approved by Parliament.
    The legal requirements for the disposal of waste in landfills are
    defined in Law No. 39/1999 on regard of the public cleaning.
    A by-law for Law No. 39 that further specifies the legal requirements for solid waste disposal has been elaborated as a draft
    version but has not yet been finally approved.

    11%
    Others
    1%
    Glass
    10%
    Plastics

    ompo
    ec

    ion
    sit

    - Planned

    policy and planning environment

    Wast

    BACKGROUND INFORMATION

    6%
    Metal

    None
    None

    - Under construction

    None

    - Constructed

    None

    - Operational
    Types of disposal and treatments for
    medical waste:

    None
    None

    7%
    Paper/Cardboard

    65%
    Organic

    Contact person
    Markus Lcke
    Project Leader
    [email protected]

    Institutional framework
    Policy and Planning

    Options for improvement

    Ministry of Local Administration.


    General Directorate for Solid Waste Management.
    Environmental Protection Authority.

    Draft the necessary laws and legislations for Public Cleaning to


    identify the SWM work for Yemen and to identify the roles and
    responsibilities of the different authorities. Aim of this law is to
    clarify the framework required in providing SWM services and
    define responsibilities.
    Public Cleaning and Cleaning Fund Laws should be approved and
    proceed with their implementation.

    Implementation and Operation

    Local Councils (Cleaning Fund)


    Financial & cost recovery arrangements
    A decentralized financing mechanism is required to provide
    funds to the local authorities. SWM services needs decentralized
    financing system and NOT central financing, even though central
    financing is still required to finance some major investment in
    SWM. The result was the Cleaning Fund Law 20/1999 with its
    amendments.
    The aim of this law is to create decentralized financing for the
    local authorities away from the central government budgeting
    system.

    Role and competence of local authorities


    The Local Authorities (LAs) have the responsibility for providing
    SWM services.
    Training for the municipalities and an awareness program should
    be implemented in the near future, in order to improve Local
    authorities competence.
    Training workshops for trainers as well as national municipality staff should be considered, depending on best practices and
    guidebooks that have been prepared on SWM.
    Establish pilot projects for LAs to create practical examples in
    order to build know how.

    Private sector involvement


    At present all waste collection, transport and disposal are
    provided by the Local Authorities. Introducing private sector
    involvement in solid waste management can potentially improve
    the waste management services without increasing costs. A key
    consideration is that there must be sufficient competition, transparency and accountability, as private-sector participation does
    not, in itself, guarantee effectiveness and low costs.

    Climate adaptation and mitigation strategies

    This profile was last updated in September 2013

    Nothing has been done to date.

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    Deutsche Gesellschaft fr
    Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

    On behalf of the

    German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation


    and Development (BMZ)

    Registered offices : Bonn and Eschborn, Germany

    The Regional Solid Waste Exchange of Information


    and Expertise Network in the MENA region
    (SWEEP-Net)
    GIZ Office Tunis
    B.P. 753 - 1080 Tunis Cedex - Tunisia
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    F + 216 71 967 227
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    April 2014

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