Maldives

USAID’s Clean Cities, Blue Ocean Program Awards its First Grants in the Maldives

Each day, over 750 tons of waste is generated across the Maldives, a nation of more than 1,200 islands. Posing a unique set of solid waste management (SWM) challenges with limited land for waste storage, the country’s dispersed geography requires innovative SWM systems and a circular economy to manage  its… Read More

CCBO Initial Solid Waste Management Assessment Sri Lanka & Maldives

The following presents CCBO’s Initial Solid Waste Management Assessment (ISWMA) for the program’s four “engagement sites” in the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka) and the Republic of Maldives (Maldives). Sri Lanka engagement sites include the Colombo Metropolitan Area, Galle, and District of Jaffna. Malé is CCBO’s engagement… Read More

Clean Cities, Blue Ocean

While CCBO is global in scope, the program will build on previous USAID recycling programs such as the Municipal Waste Recycling Program through an initial focus on key countries in Asia and Latin America. Read More