Article: Cooperation among small urban centres in the Lake Victoria Basin as a necessary strategy for managing solid waste: the case of Kisii, Homa Bay and Migori municipalities Journal: International Journal of Environment and Waste Management (IJEWM) 2014 Vol.13 No.4 pp.412 - 428 Abstract: Solid waste management remains a daunting task for small municipalities found in the Lake Victoria Basin. The situation is aggravated by low prioritisation of solid waste management, limited revenues for financing waste management and the ever increasing population in these municipalities. Cooperation offers an option that can be considered as it would allow neighbouring municipal councils to pool their resources together to address this common challenge. This is pegged on achieving economies of scale and internalising externalities. Using interviews, stakeholders workshop, observation and documents review, this paper presents findings and conclusions to a study that was carried out to assess opportunities for cooperation amongst three small neighbouring municipal authorities in the Lake Victoria Basin namely Kisii, Homa Bay and Migori municipalities. This paper concludes that cooperation provides a necessary strategy to addressing solid waste management challenges and that there are indeed various opportunities within the institutional organisation and along the waste chain for cooperation in order to jointly accomplish this. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Cooperation among small urban centres in the Lake Victoria Basin as a necessary strategy for managing solid waste: the case of Kisii, Homa Bay and Migori municipalities

Authors: Christine Majale; Caleb Mireri

Addresses: Department of Environmental Planning and Management, Kenyatta University, P.O. Box 43844-00100, Nairobi, Kenya ' Department of Environmental Planning and Management, Kenyatta University, P.O. Box 43844-00100, Nairobi, Kenya

Abstract: Solid waste management remains a daunting task for small municipalities found in the Lake Victoria Basin. The situation is aggravated by low prioritisation of solid waste management, limited revenues for financing waste management and the ever increasing population in these municipalities. Cooperation offers an option that can be considered as it would allow neighbouring municipal councils to pool their resources together to address this common challenge. This is pegged on achieving economies of scale and internalising externalities. Using interviews, stakeholders workshop, observation and documents review, this paper presents findings and conclusions to a study that was carried out to assess opportunities for cooperation amongst three small neighbouring municipal authorities in the Lake Victoria Basin namely Kisii, Homa Bay and Migori municipalities. This paper concludes that cooperation provides a necessary strategy to addressing solid waste management challenges and that there are indeed various opportunities within the institutional organisation and along the waste chain for cooperation in order to jointly accomplish this.

Keywords: solid waste management; SWM; municipal authorities; cooperation; small urban centres; Kenya; municipal solid waste; MSW; small municipalities; Lake Victoria Basin.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEWM.2014.060453

International Journal of Environment and Waste Management, 2014 Vol.13 No.4, pp.412 - 428

Received: 07 Jul 2012
Accepted: 28 May 2013
Published online: 13 May 2014 *

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