- Project name: Towards social protection and inclusion of informal waste pickers and recyclers in HCMC
- Donor: European Commission
- Project period: 2011 – 2014
- Project area: at 8 districts in HCMC: District 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, Binh Thanh, Go Vap and Thu Duc.
- Beneficiaries:
- 1,400 independent waste collectors (IWCs) of 8 project districts (Dist 4-5-6-10-11-Binh Thanh- Go Vap and Thu Duc
- Chairmen/chair women of IWCs associations, cooperatives in 8 project districts (Dist 4-5-6-10-11-Binh Thanh- Go Vap-Thu Duc).
- In direct beneficiaries: informal waste collectors and their family working and living in Ho Chi Minh.
- Project partners:
- Department of Natural Resource and Environment (DONRE).
- Department of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs (Dolisa).
- Cooperative Alliance.
- HCMC social insurance
- Project objectives
- To improve the working conditions of the informal IWPR, reducing risk factors on health.
- To improve the access to health insurance and services for IWPRs at local level.
- To insert or stabilize 6 IWCs organizations into integrated waste management systems.