National Monitoring Information System for Municipal Solid Waste

Waste Monitoring in Jordan

Countries

Jordan

Name of client, beneficiary

Jordan - Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Origin of funding

Jordan - EU Delegation to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Project start

2017-11-01

Project end

2021-06-30

Short description

In 2015 the Government of Jordan approved its first national solid waste management strategy in order to establish a modern and integrated municipal solid waste management. One of the objectives is to close the dumpsites and replace them with sanitary controlled landfills. There are many potential environmental problems associated with it.

The overall objective of the project is to develop and implement a computerised and web-enabled national monitoring information system for municipal solid waste. The system is intended to facilitate the collection, collation of data and reporting of progress and results in a real time manner. The future system will support the monitoring of the national strategy and of its targets.

Services provided

• Establishment of a governmental web-based IT tool  for the collection and reporting of waste data
• Establishment of a landfill field monitoring unit at the Ministry of Environment
• Delivery of the equipment for both manual and real time monitoring of landfills and groundwater
• Elaboration of guidelines for the monitoring programme  
• Trainings and train the trainer programme throughout the implementation period
• Support to the Ministry of Environment in updating the regulatory framework of the waste sector to ensure that the waste information system is fully operational

Topics

Waste, IT , Environmental Data / Information, Contaminated Sites

Project links

https://umweltbundesamt.at/news_en_180319/
https://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/south/communication/news/jordan-kickoff-of-national-monitoring-information-system-for-municipal-solid-waste