Snap Survey Short Case
Mapping Community Waste Management Interventions in Lagos
Overview:
The Snap Survey Short Case is an abridged report focusing on the existing waste management interventions in Lagos state both in the private and public sectors through survey. The survey was a combination of closed and open-ended questions which produced enough flexibility to both categorise and explore themes through survey prompts. The area for the study was Lagos State thus 73% of the participants were based in Lagos state and 27% dispersed across Rivers, Delta, Enugu, Ogun, Edo, Abia, Abuja,Ekiti, Oyo and Ondo state. A total of 86 organisations were contacted for the survey but only 52 completed it while descriptive and inferential statistical tools were deployed in interpreting the survey data.
Focus of the Survey
- Organisations carrying out the intervention
- The locations of the interventions
- The rationale for selection
- Funding mechanisms
- Specific challenges associated with carrying them out.
Survey Participants
Participants for the survey were drawn from membership of industry associations, for example, the Lagos State Recycling Organization and the Food and Beverage Recycling Association in Nigeria; online respondents, data from websites, news articles and social media posts sources. The participants were categorised into three. They are:
- Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOS),
- Corporates
- Governments based on descriptions of existing interventions that were found online.
Findings from the Survey
Types of Initiators’
From the survey, existing waste management initiators were dominantly corporate organisations with a record of 65%; Non governmental organisations with 27% while government initiators just had 8% presence.
Intervention Focus
The survey revealed that Initiators embarked on waste management interventions for any of the following reasons
- Clean-up of waste from drainage, water bodies and streets
- Sensitization of the host community to adverse effects of poor waste management.
- Education and skills development for communities to support appropriate handling of waste
- Introduction of incentives to motivate the collection of recyclable materials
- Capacity development for potential recyclers
- Young citizen education and mobilisation
Intervention Audience
Waste generators, Waste pickers, Recyclers, Youths and the environment were the identified audiences for waste management interventions. Each category of initiators; that is, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOS), Corporates and Governments had their own peculiar audience inclination. For instance, the government focused more on waste generators, while NGOs focused more on the environment. In all, the environment topped the most target audience across the categories.
Scope of interventions and years of experience
The scope of the intervention was examined under three purviews-local, state and federal levels. The corporate organisations represented a national/ federal scope of their waste management interventions while NGOs were more locally inclined and government initiators due to their design operated on state levels.Also, Initiators whose scope were on the federal level possessed more than five years of experience.
Funding Scale and Source
One of the fascinating data from under this segment was that 58% of NGOs often execute waste interventions with 1 Million Naira or less while Corporate establishments thrive on budgets exceeding 2 Million Naira. This survey also gathered that all categories of initiators were self funded, read up on the funding scale and source in the main document.
Test of the Relationship between Initiators’ Parameters
Using the chi-square, the data highlighted that in the three categories of initiators- Corporate, NGO and Government there are no statistical differences in areas of funding scale and the target audience but there were significant statistical differences in the scope of intervention and funding source.
Challenges
The major challenge to the survival waste management interventions in communities rested on funding and attitudes of community members. For instance most initiators were self-funded and worked within a maximum of 2 Million Naira and apathy towards accepting interventions by community members prospered. Other challenges include logistics, transportation which when examined lingers back to the lack of substantial budget.
Full Report
Dive into the full report and explore all of the focus areas, strategies, and key recommendations in more detail.
From the findings, there is no specified central authority mandating initiators to embark on waste management interventions. Whatever has been done was out of will. However the following are the realities of waste management interventions:
- Most times, corporate outfits embark on waste management interventions due to the quest to abide by stipulated regulations, build enhance public image or procure recyclable materials
- Waste interventions are multidimensionally focused.
- Self funding interventions deters the initiators from protecting the interest of the public since they are constrained by budget. Funding remains underfunded.
- Database development and management, needs to be improved to serve as reference to carry out enhanced and effective interventions in the present and future