<Progress
of the monitoring visit>
a) Visit
Subcounty leadership and hear about trash project
b) Visit
trash collection points
c) Visit
LUNA FM radio station and make speech responsible for garbage management
information dissemination
a) Visit
Subcounty leadership and hear about trash project
On the 30/07/2022 the GBN team arrived in Uganda and on the 31/07/2022 the team arrived in Mubende. While in Mubende, the team was involved in several monitoring visits including the visit to Kibalinga Sub-County leadership on the 03/08/2022 in order to assess the impact of the project activities.
At the sub-county hall, the team held a meeting with the sub county leadership which involved generating feed back from the leaders regarding the project and come up with a way forward on how the project activities shall be sustained.
In attendance were the different local council leaders including 11 male and 4 female. The SORAK staff included the Project Officer, Executive Director and the Projects Manager.
The
following was the feedback from the members regarding the project.
All members appreciated the initiative because it had contributed towards the general cleanliness of the community hence environmental conservation.
They
however had the following concerns and requests,
· The
leader in charge of defense requested for more trash cans in order to ensure
that all points are covered for effective management of the garbage.
· Members
had never dreamt of such initiatives to happen in their community and credited
the development partners for the support, however they requested for support
towards youth livelihood projects for example poultry.
· The
chairperson for Persons with Disabilities noted that a total number of 320
persons with disabilities live within the community. He requested for support
towards the provision of sewing of machines, wheel chairs and crutches in order
for them to be able to sustain themselves.
· A
member mentioned that these is no public toilet around the market area, thus
water flow is polluted with human excrement.
· Members
requested that support towards the boy child should also be given priority as a
number of boys face a lot of challenges in the community and currently projects
focusing on girls have increased.
· A
member of an environmental NPO mentioned that he would like to learn about
environmental policies, projects, and garbage collecting/ sorting systems in a
developed country like Japan because environmental issues are not actively
addressed in Uganda.
Activity
photographs
Recommendations
towards project sustainability
· There
should be continuous awareness creation regarding proper garbage disposal
especially when it comes to sorting the garbage.
· Leaders
were encouraged to be exemplary as they continue to create awareness regarding
proper garbage disposal.
· There
should be by-laws bucked up with fines to the defaulters of proper garbage
management.
· Enforce
the environmental act whereby every community member is supposed to get
involved into activities directed towards ensuring community hygiene and
failure to do so, the person is subjected to a fine.
· The
previous practice regarding garbage management will be emphasized whereby,
community members are encouraged to contribute a small amount of money. For
example, 500/= for the garbage containers to be emptied for garbage to be taken
to the dumping sites.
b) Visit
trash collection points
After
holding a meeting with sub-county leadership, the team had time to visit the
different points where the garbage containers are stationed. This was to
confirm if the containers had been stationed in the respective points. There
after they had a movie interview regarding what they had found out during the
monitoring exercise.
Findings
·
At each point, 2 trash containers are set
up; one can is for plastics and another one for organic wastes. However, in all
trash cans plastic wastes and organic wastes are mixed.
·
When we interviewed local venders who are
selling food around the trash cans, they did not know that two trash cans are
marked differently and they are for different types of trash.
·
We team encouraged members to creatively
solve their challenges such as a lack of trash containers. For
example, we suggested to use basket made of plants or wooden boxes as trash
cans.
·
Even though the amount of trash has
decreased, there are still a lot of trash was illegally dumped.
c) Visit LUNA FM radio station and make speech
responsible for garbage management information dissemination
The team visited
Luna FM studios but did not have time to make a speech regarding garbage
management.
Challenges
· Too
much expectations from the local leaders, we mitigated this by clearly
explaining to them that GBN team purposely came to monitor the progress of the
implemented projects.
Positive
influence
· The
leaders were willing to share the impact of the project.
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