CDM project ‘KIPRAH’ for community based solid waste management in Indonesia successfully started

KIPRAH (‘Kita-PRO-Sampah’ or ‘We are pro waste’) is a community based solid waste management project for urban poor in densely populated areas in Indonesia, initiated and implemented by the BORDA network in Indonesia, supported by International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Canada and Atmosfair.
By mitigating the emission of methane through the application of aerobic composting of organic waste KIPRAH will receive Certified Emission Reduction (CERs) to co-finance the project thus allowing proper community facilitation.
On 23th December 2009 the Project Design Document (PDD) has been uploaded successfully to the UNFCCC website. The document get be accessed through the following link: http://cdm.unfccc.int/ProgrammeOfActivities/Validation/DB/J8AS7C008XO90OT9BYMYLY2T23DSUS/view.html

After a year of various activities to provide the BORDA basic needs services package in Indonesia, BORDA Indonesia and the partner organizations BEST, LPTP and BaliFokus came together to discuss last year’s activities, problems and achievements and to plan the different upcoming activities and tasks for 2010.
From 18th – 20th January 2010 participants from the BORDA Office in Yogyakarta and the partner network Indonesia met at the Jayakarta Hotel in Yogyakarta for the yearly EvaPlan Meeting.

The sanitation for most of the people in Indonesia is still inadequate,
at the National Sanitation Conference 2009 Ministers and participants
from the national Ministries, provincial, municipal and city
governments, NGO activists, celebrities, and people from the
communities came together to discuss how to improve the sanitation in
Indonesia.

The Conference in the Millennium Sirih Hotel in Jakarta opened with a
speech from the Indonesian Minister for Public Work Djoko Kirmanto,
pointing out the importance of sanitation for the development of
Indonesia.

Following the speech a “Talk show” took place with the famous Lula
Kamal discussing the national actions to improve sanitation with Endang
Rahayu Setyaningsih,  the Minister for Health, Djoko Kirmanto, the
Minister of Public Work, and Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana,  the Minister
of National Planning & Development. During the event the audience
got the chance to discuss their questions with the Ministers.