Protecting Mexico's coastal regions and their marine ecosystems by reducing plastic waste (PROCEP) “Short-term expert support on circular economy in Mexico”

Project details
Country: 
Mexico
Beneficiary: 
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Donor organisation: 
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Department: 
Integrated Solid Waste Management & Circular Economy
Project volume: 
169,450 €
Currency: 
€
Value of services: 
169,450 €
Start of project: 
August, 2022
End of project: 
June, 2024
Project background: 

The Governments of Mexico and Germany, by means of the project “Protection of Mexican coastal regions and their marine ecosystems through the reduction of plastic waste” (PROCEP, for its Spanish acronym), seek to reduce the entry of plastic waste into the marine area in the state of Oaxaca and other coastal regions of the Mexican Pacific. The German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) implements this project in coordination with the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico (SEMARNAT).

Service description: 

Main areas of technical support:

Providing in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience on waste plastic prevention, circular economy and financing strategies, and its related policy, financial, planning, and regulatory instruments.

  • Plastic waste prevention
  • Circular economy (CE)
  • Financing strategies

Specific technical tasks:

  • Generation of a scheme to identify, characterize and define the relationships between and among formal and non-formal organizations for the recovery of plastic waste on the coast of Oaxaca and their interactions with institutions in the rest of the state and the country.
  • Generation of proposals for the insertion of the circular economy focused on plastics in the current Mexican legal and regulatory framework or the creation of new instruments for this purpose based on a comparative analysis of the state of the art of the CE in plastics in the European Union, Germany, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil.
  • Analysis of the regulatory framework (laws, regulations and programs) at the municipal and state levels to strengthen the prevention and circular economy of plastics in the municipalities of Oaxaca where PROCEP collaborates.
  • Identification of viable strategies for the integrated management of used motorboat oil containers in municipalities on the coast of Oaxaca.

General technical tasks:

  • Share and adapt international experience and best practices for national, regional or local plans, programs or similar.
  • Developing, reviewing, and generating suggestions for technical reports, including risk analysis.
  • Contribution to the design of toolkits, knowledge products, publications.
  • Conducting studies (technical, policy, financial) and implementation of surveys (e.g. field studies, interviews, data collection)
  • Preparation, implementation and documentation of different events: e.g. training, webinars, technical workshops, conferences and side-events.
  • Develop and deliver training courses.
  • Engagement with key actors (public, private, academic) in the Mexican waste management and circular economy sector and the region, including an active role with sub-national authorities.
  • Coordination and communication with project partners.
  • Drafting of ToR for specific assignments.
  • Coordination of consultants and with other consulting teams.
  • Project and Quality Management during the entire project cycle for the different service requests. This includes design and agreement on efficient processes for the provision of the different services and quality control and assurance for intermediate and final outputs (e.g. methodological approaches, mission and workshop agendas, technical studies, training material, concept documents for mitigation measures, etc.).
Objectives: 

PROCEP focuses on developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating strategies for the reduction of plastic waste, with an emphasis on the tourism and fisheries sectors. It also seeks to develop solutions to achieve an effective circular economy, improve the management of plastic waste and prevent it from entering the sea to preserve marine ecosystems.

The scope of PROCEP is articulated in one objective (outcome) and four outputs. The first two focus on the pilot region of the Oaxaca coast, the third on disseminating what has been learned to other Mexican and international coasts, and the fourth on integrating the experiences into national public policy.

Result: 

The amount of plastic waste entering the marine ecosystems of Mexico's Pacific coast is reduced. 

Output I - Waste management. Waste management on the coast of Oaxaca is improved.

Output II - Plastics in Tourism and Fisheries. Plastic consumption in the tourism and fishing sector of the Oaxaca coast is reduced.  

Output III - Dissemination and visibility. The pilot region's best practices are disseminated nationally and internationally.  

Output IV - Integration into national policy. Institutions at the national level have new or improved concepts for the protection of marine ecosystems by reducing plastic waste entering the sea.  

Currency: 
€