Peru

Clean Cities, Blue Ocean Peru Fact Sheet

In Peru, USAID is piloting solutions to stop the flow of plastic pollution to waters, within and surrounding the country, including the Pacific Ocean and other inland bodies of water. Read More

Clean Cities, Blue Ocean Peru Fact Sheet (Spanish)

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USAID Spotlights Cities at Our Ocean Conference

March 2, 2023 – Around the world, waste management is the responsibility of local governments. Few local government services are as visible in our daily lives—and important—as waste management. Yet many local governments lack the institutional capacity and resources necessary to successfully plan, build, and operate the on-the-ground waste management… Read More

Six Ways USAID is Advancing Gender Equality in the Waste Sector

Women play a critical role in the waste sector, as informal workers collecting plastics, or as owners of recycling centers and upcycling businesses—preventing plastic waste from reaching the ocean. Read More

The Festival “Máncora Recycles, Get on the wave of recycling”

The festival was organized by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Clean Cities, Blue Ocean program Read More

CCBO Launches New Capacity Building Tool for Local Governments

More than 22 million tons of plastic leak into our aquatic environment each year, the majority from land-based sources in communities and cities that aren’t able to adequately collect and manage local waste.  Local governments have an important role in providing on-the-ground services to control waste and prevent ocean plastic… Read More

Funding Opportunity: Addressing Ocean Plastics in Peru

The United States Government, represented by the United States Agency for InternationalDevelopment (USAID) in the Republic of Peru is currently designing an activity that aims ataddressing the issue of solid waste management in Peru. Engagements to date demonstrate that there is local capacity to implement the resulting activity.The Mission is… Read More

Request for Information: Addressing Ocean Plastics in Peru

USAID would like to better understand from all interested parties including the private sector, non-governmental organizations, civil society, and government partners, the specific development challenges that have stymied Peru’s efforts to improve solid waste management, leading to high levels of plastic waste entering Peru’s rivers and ocean environments, and how… Read More

USAID launches program to combat ocean plastic pollution in Peru

Cross-posted from US Embassy in Peru Pisco, November 18, 2021 – Today, national, regional, and local authorities, as well as members of the private sector participated in the launch of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Clean Cities, Blue Ocean… Read More

CCBO Initial Solid Waste Management Assessment Peru

The following presents CCBO’s Initial Solid Waste Management Assessment (ISWMA) for the program’s two “engagement sites” in Peru: Piura and Ica. The ISWMA is one of CCBO’s first steps in its launch of in-field implementation and will support its engagement sites to create improvements that will lead to sustainable, integrated… Read More