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› Exchange visit: Steering Committee members visits Costa Rica
2010-04-02
To enhance the capacity of the project steering committee members, a five member committee members of Clean Bhutan Program made a weeklong exposure trip to Costa-Rica to initiate experience sharing between Costa Rica and Bhutan.
During the weeklong tour in Costa Rica, the members visited several waste management centers and met with the municipal authorities, communities and informal stakeholders involved in the waste management sector. The highlights of the tour were the recycling facilities established and the systematic collection of various wastes.
The tour provided opportunities to the project committee members to visit successful waste management projects sites in Costa-Rica and replicate those practical activities in Bhutan. It also provided ample of opportunities for the team to widen their understanding on waste management and resource recovery facilities, and to encourage private sector participation in the waste management activities by initiating small scale resource recovery activities in the country, and divert waste stream from going to the landfill.
The tour was organized by ACEPESA (lead organization for the Clean Bhutan and Costa Rica waste management project) from 20 – 26th March 2010 with financial support from Programme for South- South Cooperation.
