Update:March 8, 2010

JICA-Commissioned Training Course Launched for “Total Waste Management to Promote a Recycling-Oriented Society in Peru”

A training course for “Total Waste Management to Promote a Recycling-Oriented Society in the Republic of Peru”, which was commissioned by JICA, was launched on February 4. The highest priority of the course is given to developing the abilities for day-to-day operational management in Peruvian local governments. Trainees are to be provided mainly with Japanese technologies and techniques that can help practically improve waste management. Besides, the trainees are scheduled to take lectures and visit sites to learn about appropriate local government level investments regarding waste disposal, including the issues of investing in relatively large-scale facilities such as incinerators and landfill sites, the applicability of these facilities in developing countries, and so forth. Through the lectures and visits, they are expected to understand the roles of the administration and private sectors and acquire expertise in waste management to promote a recycling-oriented society and environmental awareness. At the end of the nearly 40-day course, they are scheduled to organize problems that should be solved by their own local governments, and make proposals to be pursued back in their country, based on the knowledge, the expertise, and the methods acquired in this course. (Nagasaka)

Lecture scene

Visit to southern Yokkaichi landfill site