We do not like to admit failures. But why not? Why not understand failures as something productive, something that helps us and our partners to flourish and grow?

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that municipal solid waste management is not only one of the most pressing environmental challenges in cities of the global south, but also crucial for public health, urban resilience and influencing gender relations.

Field visit recap to Muttathara Resource Recovery Facility in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The facility is viewed as a post-crisis governance solution responding to failed centralised solid waste management facility in Vilpalsala.

The 2nd annual progress sharing and review meeting of the Project “Challenges of Municipal Solid Waste Management: Learning from Post-Crisis Governance Initiatives in South Asia (SWM governance in South Asia: South-South Learning)”.

In May 2020, the SNSF r4d programme launched the second and last Call for their Transformation Accelerating Grants (TAG) focusing on co-creation, social learning, technology transfer and transformative actions with the ultimate aim to accelerateRead More

NCCR and CIUD from Nepal organised a Zoom webinar with representatives from the health sector, private social enterprise, security in-charge at Sisdol landfill site, and the local government representatives of Kakani Rural Municipality and Dhunibesi Municipality that surrounds Sisdol landfill site.

My 8-year-old daughter recently received a gift: a book about waste. Even though I think the giver was influenced by the work I am doing, I really found the reaction of my daughter very interesting.Read More

COVID-19 alters everyday life; people across the globe are in confinement. This has also implications for waste practices at the household level and beyond. This blog post depicts the observations of waste researchers in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.

After highly professional, efficient and successful working days, the r4d team went out to enjoy a team dinner in a Newari restaurant that during the food courses performs local and traditional dances on a stage. During the performances, the stage invites the audience to become performers themselves.