KistaI Waste Management Project
Kisumu, Kenya
Primary information
- Year formed
- 2004
- Number of members
- 16
- Type of members
- Waste picker support organization
- Occupation of members
- Waste pickers
- Type of Organization
- Association
- Organizational Reach
- Local
- Workplace of members
- Door to door, Dumpsite
- Membership
- Yes
- Organization Structure
- KISTA has an office and it is headed by a chairlady. It also has a secretary, a treasurer and 2 workers employed on a wage basis. The leaders are selected through election by members and the elections are held annually. Four members constitute the management committee that is one man and 3 women. Members pay a membership fee of 50 shillings. Records kept for the organization include a simple cash book and the customer’s collection book.
- Objectives
- Contribute to cleaning the environment, improve livelihoods, keep local area clean, recognition of waste pickers, income security
- Partnering organizations
- Manyatta Solid Waste Management, BAMATO and Reli Youth Group whom they joined together to form KIWAMA and the partnership is for a period of six months. TUFFORM Industries whom KISTA sells to. Kisumu Waste Management Services. KENRIS Services. KASSEN.
- Affiliations
- Civil society organization, Public enterprise, Waste picker organization
- Funding
- Local population pay fee, Self funded
- Internal elections
- Annually
- Women composition
- 81,3%
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Benefits
- Member benefits
- Clean & healthy environment, Job creation & source of income
- Safety & Technology
- No
Services
- Types of materials
- Biodegradable waste, Paper and cardboard, Plastics
- Are they selling to middlemen?
- Yes
- Activities
- Recycling, Selling materials, Street sweeping, Transportation, Waste collection
- Challenges to access waste
- Foul smell & contamination from waste, Lack of infrastructure & resources, Lack of recognition, Negative attitude towards waste, Price fluctuations of waste, Transportation
Complementary Information
- Information source
- Africa 2009