INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF
WASTE PICKERS
WASTE PICKERS
The International Alliance of Waste Pickers is a union of waste picker organizations representing more than 460,000 workers across 34 countries
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The organizations listed in this WAW database were the result of the effort to merge in one place multiple waste picker related organizations data bases in 2014. Visit the current list of affiliates to the International Alliance of Waste Pickers.
Kisumu Urban Apostolate Programme (KUAP)
Kisumu, Kenya
Primary information
- Number of groups
- 3
- Number of members
- 75
- Type of members
- Waste picker support organization
- Occupation of members
- Waste pickers
- Type of Organization
- Church organization
- Organizational Reach
- Local
- Workplace of members
- Slums
- Membership
- No
- Objectives
- Keep local area clean, job creation
- Education and training
- Risks & health, Waste management
- Partnering organizations
- SECODE (Sustainable Environment and Community Development) partners with KUAP in Solid Waste Management, Water and Sanitation. Practical Action partners in Solid Waste Management, Water and Sanitation. Bamato Environmental and Sanitation Project partners with KUAP in Solid Waste Management, Water & Sanitation.
- Affiliations
- Ngo, Waste picker organization
- Women composition
- mostly women
Social networking sites
Benefits
- Member benefits
- Clean & healthy environment, Job creation & source of income
Services
- Activities
- Training and capacity building
- Challenges to access waste
- Lack of education & training, Lack of infrastructure & resources, Negative attitude towards waste
Complementary Information
- Information source
- Africa 2009
Comments / Narrative
KUAP works only in Kenya. It works in the Peri-urban of Kisumu and parts of rural Kisumu & Kitale (informal settlements). It trains & educates the community on Waste management. They first undergo a participatory community hygiene transformation after which the action plan decides on what to do with the various groups. It’s all about hygiene promotion. Specific programme locations include Magadi Gonda (Peri-urban Kisumu/outcast of the town or the slum area), Pandipieri, Bala, Nyalenda Kanyakwal & Manyatta flamingo.