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.
Menegai Waste Recyclers Management Group (MEWAREMA)
Nakuru, Kenya
Primary information
- Year formed
- 2002
- Formally registered
- Yes
- Number of members
- 40
- Type of members
- Waste picker support organization
- Occupation of members
- Waste collectors, Waste pickers
- Type of Organization
- Self-help group
- Organizational Reach
- Local
- Workplace of members
- Door to door, Dumpsite, Fixed
- Membership
- Yes
- Organization Structure
- Mewarema has an active leadership structure comprising of a chairperson, secretary, treasurer and a members’ committee comprising of nine members (4 men and 9 women). The members meet twice a week for group activities. There are no employed staff. Leaders are selected by secret ballot by the registered members and officially hold office for two years before a new election is held. New members are accepted after payment of a non refundable membership fee of Ksh. 500.00. Record keeping is well kept by the group leaders and this includes minutes of group meetings, banking records, income inflow and out flow, solid waste collection client records, registered membership records and member contributions records.
- Objectives
- Contribute to cleaning the environment, improve livelihoods, keep local area clean, achieve sustainable solid waste management in the city, improve waste picker living conditions, strengthen bargaining capacity, improve quality of life
- Education and training
- Waste management
- Partnering organizations
- Municipal Council, Practical Action, Egerton University, Family Bank
- Affiliations
- Donor, Government, Ngo, University
- Funding
- Local population pay fee, Self funded
- Internal elections
- Every 2 years
- Women composition
- 75,0%
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Benefits
- Member benefits
- Clean & healthy environment, Job creation & source of income, Training & advocacy
- Safety & Technology
- Yes
Services
- What kind of relationship exists with the municipality?
- Integrated into formal systems of source segregation
- How is the relationship with the municipality?
- Excellent and/or friendly
- Types of materials
- Biodegradable waste, Household items, Human waste
- Are they selling to middlemen?
- No
- Activities
- Collecting waste, Composting, Selling materials, Sorting waste
- Treatmet of organic materials
- Composting
- Challenges to access waste
- Lack of recognition
Complementary Information
- Information source
- Africa 2009