SALAR International/Waste Sweden Waste Management Ukraine design phase SKR/Avfall Sverige Avfallshantering i Ukraina designfas Ukraine has requested support from Sweden on waste management and recycling reforms as parts of Ukraine's green transition and EU approximation process.

As one component of the Swedish support to waste management and recycling reforms the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR) together with Avfall Sverige/Swedish Waste Management Association had submitted an application for a design phase project focusing on municipal waste management in Ukraine. The design phase will be carried out during the period 1 September 2023 to 31 March 2024, with the aim to assess the current situation on waste management and outline possible areas of support during a full-scale project. 

Avfall Sverige/Swedish Waste Management Association is an organisation for the Swedish municipalities in the waste management sector in Sweden and is therefore a knowledge hub about waste management. SALAR is an association where all Swedish municipalities are members and SALAR International has supported decentralisation reforms in Ukraine since 2014. Given this experience, their established work in Ukraine and that waste management to a large degree is managed by local authorities in Ukraine, Sida assesses that SALAR and Avfall Sverige/Swedish Waste Management Association are the right actors to support. SALAR will be Sida's agreement partner. Ukraina har efterfrågat stöd från Sverige med landets avfallshanterings- och sopsorteringsreformer som del av landets gröna omställning och EU-närmande.

Som en del av Sveriges stöd till detta område har Sveriges kommuner och regioner och Avfall Sverige inkommit med en ansökan om en projektförberedande insats under perioden 1 september 2023 - 31 mars 2024. Dessa samarbetspartners har valts ut eftersom Avfall Sverige är kommunernas branschorganisation för avfallshantering i Sverige och därmed besitter en gedigen kunskap om svensk avfallshantering. Eftersom SKR genom SALAR International har stött Ukrainas decentraliseringsprocess sedan 2014, med en etablerad verksamhet i landet och att avfallshantering till stor del hanteras av lokala myndigheter bedömer Sida att SKR och Avfall Sverige är lämpliga samarbetspartner för denna insats. SKR är Sidas avtalspartner.

Syftet med insatsen är att undersöka möjligheterna för ett fullskaligt program med fokus på kommunal avfallshantering i Ukraina. The overall objectives of SALAR/Avfall Sverige (Swedish Waste Management Association) pre-study are:

• To develop a general systemic overview and situational analysis of the current situation in Ukraine related to the municipal solid waste management sector;

• To map both current and long-term needs, ongoing reforms and legislation, other relevant actors (national as well as international), in order to understand where Swedish support could add most value both in short and long term perspectives in the municipal waste sector;

• To establish sound relationships with potential key-partners at both local, regional and national levels including the relevant key-ministries in Kyiv;

• With a basis of the pre-study, propose and describe a suitable multi-year programme in support of relevant focus areas for the municipal solid waste management sector, which are clearly embedded across both national and local context and needs, and in line with agreed Swedish and Ukrainian priorities and strategies;