Work package 1: Policy advice and capacity building of public institutions:

• Circular waste management, including development and implementation of operational and monitoring protocols for incineration, waste treatment and disposal;
• Extended Producer Responsibility;
• Regulation of hazardous substances and waste;
• Development of action plans to implement national regulation and legislation in selected satellite cities.

Work package 2: Capacity building of financial intermediaries:

• Workshop curricula on financing of waste management and circularity within value and supply chains for commercial banks and micro-credit institutions;
• Coaching of staff at the National Fund for Environment – FONERWA and at the Development Bank of Rwanda – BRD in tailoring their existing finance products towards businesses in waste management, as well as to companies wishing to improve the circularity of their operations, supply and/or value chains.

Work package 3: Studies to support the implementation of the Rwandan Integrated Solid Waste Management Strategy:

• Composting on household level, both in urban and rural environments;
• Full cost accounting of municipal SWM service provisions;
• Full cost recovery of municipal SWM service provisions;
• Incentives for private sector led participation in SWM and circularity.

Work package 4: Circular capacity building of private companies

• Agriculture (e.g., banana, coffee, tea, horticulture, sweet potato, cassava);
• Industry (e.g., FMCG, F&B, construction material production, construction, textile);
• Mining (e.g., tungsten, casserite, tantalum)\

Work package 5: Support to the satellite cities:

• Establishment of a data reporting system for the waste sector to feed in the national WatSan MIS and Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) Results Based Monitoring & Evaluation (RBME) system;
• Implementing recommendations from full cost accounting and recovery;
• Capacity building for satellite cities and City of Kigali officials.