Abstract
The municipal solid waste management systems of many developing countries are commonly constrained by factors such as limited financial resources and poor governance, making it a difficult proposition to break with complex, entrenched and unsustainable technologies and systems. This paper highlights strategic partnerships as a way to affect a distributed agency among several sets of stakeholders to break so-called path dependencies, which occur when such unsustainable pathways arise, stabilize and become self-reinforcing over time. Experiences from a North-South collaborative effort provide some lessons in such partnership building: In Uganda and Denmark respectively, the World Wildlife Fund and the network-administrating organization access2innovation have attempted to mobilize stakeholders around improving the municipal solid waste system in the rural district capital of Kasese. Through a municipal solid waste system characterization and mapping exercise, some emergent lessons and guiding principles in partnership building point to both pitfalls and opportunities for designing sustainable pathways.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication date | 2013 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| Event | 8th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems - Dubrovnik, Croatia Duration: 22 Sept 2013 → 27 Sept 2013 http://www.dubrovnik2013.sdewes.org/ |
Conference
| Conference | 8th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems |
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| Country/Territory | Croatia |
| City | Dubrovnik |
| Period | 22/09/2013 → 27/09/2013 |
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