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It’s a kind of Magic! 

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30 YEARS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA – 10 YEARS IN CABO DELGADO

WASTE VALORIZATION -  CORPORATE – MUNICIPAL

– PUBLIC/PRIVATE  PARTNERSHIPS.

– SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND LIVELIHOOD DEVELOPMENT.

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THIRD WORLD SOLUTIONS TO FIRST WORLD CHALLENGES

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UMLINGO ENDELEVU LDA

(SUSTAINABLE MAGIC)

PALMA, CABO DELGADO.

 

- MOZAMBICAN OWNED AND REGISTERED.

- SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS

COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT

 

COMPREHENSIVE, REPLICABLE, SCALABLE WASTE MIMISATION MODEL

  • FUNDAMENTAL ALIGNMENT WITH EACH OF IFC PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

  • COMMITMENT TO UNIVERSAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • SMALL, MEDIUM MICRO ENTERPRISES (SMME’S) CREATED.

  • SOUND PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES AND VALUES

  • LOCAL KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE.

  • LABOUR INTENSIVE PROCESSES

  • EXISTING RELATIONSHIPS WITH SEVERAL STAKEHOLDERS

  • INNOVATIVE IDEAS AND STRATEGIES, WITH VERIFIED OUTCOMES.

  • COMMUNITY TRUST.

GENERIC
DEMONSTRATION MODEL

Background

At Umlingo Endelevu, we are deeply committed to the IFC Environmental and Social Performance Standards, driven by our core principle of fostering sustainable societies.

 

Our mission is to empower citizens to pursue secure and sustainable futures in safe and healthy environments. Through our programs, participants gain the skills and knowledge to plan for their sustainable development and that of their families.

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In 2015, the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, as a universal call to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030. Countries around the world have pledged to prioritize progress for those most in need.

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The 17 SDGs are interconnected, acknowledging that progress in one area can influence outcomes in others. Sustainable development requires a harmonious balance of social, economic, and environmental sustainability.

Goal

The Demonstration Model initiative creates entrepreneurial and development opportunities for the surrounding community (members), rewarding work effort by mentorship towards ultimate ownership of all aspects of the project. We have taken the urgent needs for environmentally sustainable waste management, employment, enterprise development and food production, and combined them to create a proven sustainable solution. 

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Our Goal is to fulfill the need to minimize waste generation through identification, separation, and reuse, whilst achieving economically, environmentally, socially sustainable, cost-effective waste management that fulfils community development requirements.

 

The program enriches local community and individuals via practical outcomes-based programs developing waste management, identification, appreciation skills, enhancing existing agricultural skills, providing opportunities for sustainable market and subsistence farming. 

Objectives

  • Create a- sustainable and replicable waste minimisation model. 

  • Create sustainable employment and business opportunities for the local communities surrounding the designated project area.

  • Emphasise the development of women and youth.  

  • Establish soil enrichment, agricultural growth, food production programs.

  • Substantially reduce waste to landfill. 

  • Create educational programs on understanding of waste streams, reduction, reuse of waste to the greater benefit of the communities and the environment.

  • Establish an Environmental Education and Tourism Centre.

  • Nurture a long-term culture of waste minimisation and reuse through creation of realistic development opportunities and advancement.

Actions

  • In consultation with Partners, identify highly visible local area of illegal dumping to reform into waste separation, collection, swap shop, recycling, information centre. (SWAP SHOP – containerised venue for collection of identified waste from children for tokens to exchange for educational and personal hygiene items.)

  • Development of Pemba City Nursery as sustainable organic chipping, composting, propagation, education facility, encompassing native flora, fruit, vegetables, and herbs. 

  • Education campaign at city markets and for municipal employees, culminating in all organic waste used in composting and soil enrichment program at Pemba Nursery Site 

  • Manage the waste of highly visible high end accommodation facilities (Kirimizi Hotel, Pemba Beach Hotel) with onsite, recycling, nursery, information centre.

  • Design and manage an education and separation program for on-site classification and sorting of organic, recyclable, and non-recyclable waste at each facility.

  • Design and implement composting, soil enrichment process individually, where applicable, otherwise system of separation and delivery to processing site.

  • Upscaling of hard waste where applicable (school program ‘Design with Waste’).

  • Manufacture and construction with Compressed Earthen Blocks, eco-bricks, etc.,

  • Remove and process refuse from the beaches enroute. 

Partnerships

  • Umlingo Endelevu to utilise local knowledge, experience, and professional associations to design, implement and manage initiative.

  • Program Anchor Sponsorship (Corporate)

  • Cabo Delgado Provincial Administration.

  • Pemba (or any other city/village) Municipality.

  • LNG Corporates, participating hotels & businesses, schools & universities, NGO’s.

  • Integrated development Agency of the North.

Organic Waste to Soil Enrichment and Food Production

Introduction

By effectively managing organic waste and plant materials, a soil conditioning product is created which replenishes the soil with the minerals and nutrients required for plant growth.

 

The added advantages of the process are the removal of the myriad challenges of organic waste disposal, along with the detriment caused to the environment. This process turns organic waste into an organic asset.

 

In the presentation the composting principles, materials, compost production system and the use of compost is summarized.

Motivation

Waste minimization is of major priority in our expanding community development. The practice of large-scale natural farming is a relatively new concept to Southern Africa, it is well established in internationally with proven results.

 

The composting facility is stage one of a natural farming methodology, focusing on farming with the environment, not against it. The issues of food security, nutritious food, climate, world population growth, are huge motivations, and the relative ease with which this process accomplishes success deems it a rather simple choice of action in Africa.

Soil Health

  • Soil is a non-renewable resource, taking up to 100 years to produce 3 cm of rich topsoil.

  • Optimal soil health requires structural, mineral, and biological components.

  • Chemical agriculture has focused on minerals, neglecting structure and biology.

  • In Africa, deforestation for crops has led to topsoil erosion, leaving poor conditions for future crops.

  • The philosophy involves replenishing soil with organic compost, recovering topsoil from rivers, and educating farmers.

  • Farming practices have degraded soil structure and reduced biological populations, resulting in a growing medium dependent on external soluble salts and minerals.

Benefits of Localized Waste Separation and Composting

  • Immediate and substantial reduction in waste to landfill.

  • Continuous recycling and reuse of soil nutrients.

  • Reduced cash outflow to external suppliers, recycling money back into farming.

  • Solution to bio-waste problems through on-site recycling.

  • Enhanced farm biodiversity and soil replenishment.

  • Opportunity to subsidize production costs by selling excess product.

  • Reduced transport costs due to proximity of bio-waste to composting operations and market gardening.

Production Process

  • Composting optimizes the natural decomposition of organic matter.

  • Requires optimal warm, moist, aerobic conditions for microbial activity.

  • Blending Carbon (C) to Nitrogen (N) in a 35:1 ratio is ideal.

  • Microbes multiply and release CO2, H2O, organic acids, gases, and energy during decomposition.

  • The process involves a breakdown phase followed by a reconstitution phase.

  • Resulting humus or compost holds nutrients and acids that support soil microbial life.

  • These microbes make nutrients available for plant utilization.

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