The case for citywide IEC strategy for Addis Ababa's solid waste management system
Tilahun Fekade
2134/30701
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/The_case_for_citywide_IEC_strategy_for_Addis_Ababa_s_solid_waste_management_system/9585761
Information, education and communication (IEC)related
activities being undertaken by the various
actors in the solid waste management (SWM) system of the Addis Ababa City Administration (AACA)
were reviewed employing a rapid appraisal methodology. Brochures, posters, awareness enhancing and
skills training workshops, compost demonstration sites and event based
radio and
TV based
educational
programs are found to be the major media employed with varying levels of importance in disseminating
SWM related
messages. The coverage and level of coordination among the various IEC related
interventions is found to be low, which precluded achieving synergetic impact. The absence of a citywide
IEC strategy for SWM is highlighted as a missing link in the rather bad state of affairs in the city’s SWM
system and hence its sanitation situation. The study has identified a number of issues that should be taken
up in the attempt to create sufficient capacity to plan, execute and coordinate IEC activities in SWM.
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