Technical Note/Tool

Rapid Appraisal Facility Tool

The Rapid Appraisal Facility Tool (RAFT) is a form-based tool that provides solid waste management staff and planners a quick and efficient way to collect key data about a city’s current solid waste and recycling systems, including its individual disposal and processing facilities, to inform solid waste management planning and… Read More

Conjunto de herramientas del Índice de Capacidad de Residuos Sólidos para Gobiernos Locales (SCIL)

Supplemental Material: Solid Waste Sector Methane Mitigation Technical Brief Series

This document supplements the solid waste sector methane mitigation technical brief. Read More

Methane Mitigation Technical Brief Series: Solid Waste Sector

This technical brief focuses on methane mitigation in the solid waste sector. It details potential abatement measures in the sector and presents a pathway for Missions to integrate those measures into USAID solid waste management programming. Read More

Trials of Improved Practices Manual

This manual is intended to introduce Trials of Improved Practices (TIPs) to organizations Read More

Urban Resilience Sector Guidance: Power

This document is a companion document to USAID’s Urban Resilience Framework, and aims to support USAID staff and implementing partners to build activities into energy sector programming that strengthen urban resilience. Read More

Urban Resilience Sector Guidance: Health

This document is a companion to the USAID Urban Resilience Technical Guidance. It aims to support USAID staff and implementing partners to integrate activities that strengthen urban resilience into health programming Read More

Urban Resilience Sector Guidance: Governance

This document is a companion to the USAID Urban Resilience Technical Guidance, and aims to support USAID staff and implementing partners to develop activities that strengthen urban resilience in governance sector programming Read More

Urban Resilience Technical Guidance

USAID can improve development outcomes by strengthening urban resilience. Through this approach USAID can guard against risks and help capture and safeguard the benefits of urbanization, especially for the most vulnerable. Concepts from this technical guidance can be applied to focused sector programming as well as integrated programming across sectors. Read More

Solid Waste Capacity Index for Local Governments (SCIL) Toolkit