Portfolio
German Technical Cooperation Agency (GTZ)

Program:
Competitiveness and Environmental Program (CYMA), 2004-2007

A negotiation and cooperation process was lead and facilitated between institutions in regards to the CYMA Program development and implementation- Sustainable Management of Change and the consolidation of key stakeholder and program networks: i) requisites, processes, resistance; ii) systemic concept and implementation; iii) architecture of processes; iv) strategic planning, harmonization, operative plan alignment and management.

Coordination function: public-private-partnerships (PPP’s) transversal axis; Strategic Component of Planning and Legislation; Municipal and Solid Waste Management Component.


Objective:
The objective of ACH’s performance assessment within the CYMA Program was to improve integral waste management through joint actions and strategies among different stakeholders across sectors.


Outcome:

1. A development cooperation process was lead through technical-policy solutions, based on the architecture-design, implementation of a policy-regulatory process and actions focused on the promotion of productive chains in regards to Integral Waste Management (IWM). Among the main outcomes and achievements of impact are: a National Materials Handling Report 2006, the Integrated Waste Management Law (Ley GIR), the National Plan for Solid Waste Management (PRESOL), the Manual for the Elaboration of Municipal Plans for Integral Waste Management and its implementation in selected municipalities, and the Public Private Partnership (PPPs) between GTZ and Holcim (Costa Rica), S.A.
   
   
   • National Materials Handling Report 2006.pdf
   • Costa Rican Integrated Waste Management Law.pdf
     
   • Costa Rican Waste Management Plan (PRESOL): Summary
   • PRESOL: Action Plan
   
   



2. Public Private Partnership (PPPs) between GTZ and Holcim (Costa Rica), S.A., with a specific goal of increasing the acceptance of waste co-processing in cement kilns in Costa Rica, as a viable clean technology alternative in the valorization and recovery of materials and energy, based on industrial waste.
   [Online] Available:
• GTZ - Holcim (Costa Rica) PPP
• CYMA Program - Press Release No.4
• Holcim (Costa Rica), S.A - Geocycle
• Guidelines on Coprocessing Waste Materials in Cement Kilns


3. The multiplying impact, due to the outcomes obtained through the CYMA Program, has facilitated the potential of identifying and attaining new types of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) with shared goals and activities; particularly:
• With the Costa Rican Agro-Industry, the potential was assessed and identified using energy based on organic waste (biomass) for the production of biofuels (among these considerations, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) from the Kyoto Protocol) for the fruit production and processing sectors (i.e., banana, pineapple, etc.). This was an opportunity to work jointly with the three leading agro-industrial groups of the Guapiles region, in order to promote cost-effective solutions and productive chains with regional small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
• Intense lobbying for the development and start up of Business Consortiums of Shared Responsibility for the management of post-consumption/industrial materials flow, E-waste, tires, packing material, used engine oil, biomass, industrial sludge (star), distillation tank sludge, agricultural plastics, end-of-life-vehicles management, among others.
• Similarly, based on the lessons learned and the actions lead in CYMA, we have been invited to assess the process of the Law of Waste Management in Guatemala, as well as a Public Private Partnership.


4. Creation of an Institutional Platform of key stakeholders through joint efforts between the Costa Rica Chamber of Industries (CICR), NGOs (i.e. National Cleaner Production Center Costa Rica –CNP+L, ACEPESA, and others), Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs), Academia, the Ministry of Health (MINSALUD), the Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Telecommunications (MINAET), the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development (MIDEPLAN), the Institute for Development and Municipal Advising (IFAM), and GTZ as the facilitator.
   Within the main areas of actions that were lead, are: i) improvement of the policy-regulatory framework conditions in regards to Integral Waste Management (IWM); ii) Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) as an instrument to strengthen the development of the country.


5. The outcomes obtained to date from the CYMA Program, are linked to other domestic/regional actions, in order to strengthen processes and align shared and common goals and activities, such as: National Plan for Development (PND), National Strategy for Climate Change (ENCC/C-Neutral), Presidential Initiative for Peace with Nature, local BID-FOMIN Program, Sustainable Consumption and Production Policy, Central American Policy for Integral Waste Management promoted by the Central American Commission of Environment and Development (CCAD), Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).


6. Monitoring of impact. Material Waste Management performance in Costa Rica: National Materials Handling Report 2006. CYMA-GTZ, CNP+L. San Jose, Costa Rica. Position: coordinator. [Online] Available:
• National Materials Handling Report 2006.pdf
• Press Release No. 8


7. Orientation Phase Design: Strategy Development Preparation–CYMA Operative Plan.
   Final Outcome: creation of CYMA Program components and transversal axis to be implemented. The employed methodology was carried out through stakeholder dialogue and plenary decision-making sessions:
• Components: i) Cooperation, communication and dialogue; ii) Strategies, plans and legislation; iii) Municipal and Solid Waste Management; iv) Production and competitiveness.
• Transversal axis: i) Monitoring and Assessment; ii) Public Private Partnerships (PPP).

Position:
Consultant, Staff / Local technical expert (Project management)

Website:     www.programacyma.com