About the project

The project is titled Turning plastic and other waste into green products, to improve the environment and provide poor people of Sindh and improve health and livelihoods. It aims to develop a holistic, sustainable and cost-effective recycling and solid waste management programme and behaviour change model in communities in Karachi, which can be replicated  in the rest of Sindh.

The project is being implemented by Tearfund Pakistan in four communities (Union councils) from two districts in Karachi: UC-11 Murad Memon and UC-08 Moinabad from District Malir, and UC-30 Saeedabad and UC-37 Naval Colony from District Kemari. 

The project has been adapted from a community-based model into a public-private partnership model by signing a memorandum of agreement signed between Tearfund and Sindh Solid Waste Management Board (SSWMB).

Other key partners and collaborators include Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, and professors from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. 

About Tearfund

Tearfund is a Christian charity that partners with churches and local organisations in more than 50 of the world’s poorest countries. 

Tearfund has been working in Pakistan for the last 25 years, through local partners, to tackle poverty, respond to disasters and challenge injustice. Tearfund Pakistan has its registered office in Islamabad and has 15 local partners, including local NGOs and government departments. In addition to responding to emergencies in Pakistan, Tearfund Pakistan has worked in the area of Food Security and Livelihood, WASH, Capacity Building, Community Transformation, DRR/Climate Change, and Economic & Environmental Sustainability. 

Role of UK Aid Match

This solid waste management and recycling project is funded by the UKAID through Aid Match scheme.