{"id":779,"date":"2025-03-25T08:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T08:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wm4u.org.ua\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=779"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:37:51","slug":"municipalities-are-ready-for-cooperation-to-strengthen-waste-management-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/wm4u.org.ua\/en\/news\/municipalities-are-ready-for-cooperation-to-strengthen-waste-management-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipalities are ready for cooperation to strengthen waste management in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WM4U, Waste Management for Ukraine is up and running \u2013 and the collaboration between Swedish and Ukrainian municipalities is gaining momentum. Four municipal clusters in Ukraine have now been connected with four Swedish counterparts to jointly strengthen waste management in Ukraine. With a focus on environmental sustainability, climate improvement,&nbsp; and increased quality of life, the Programme aims to strengthen both local and national efforts in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Municipalities in Ukraine play a crucial role in improving waste management in the country. Therefore, the Sida-funded programme, WM4U will support four selected municipalities in Ukraine to help them enhance their municipal waste management systems. Swedish municipalities will also be involved and contribute with their experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the program launched in the fall of 2024, Avfall Sverige and SALAR International have conducted an extensive selection process to identify four areas of municipalities &#8211; pilots &#8211; in Ukraine (Municipal clusters). Over 80 candidates were reviewed, with the information about communities collected from the Association of Amalgamated Territorial Communities of Ukraine (AATC). At the same time, efforts to identify four municipal clusters in Sweden have been underway. In March, the final selection of the four clusters in both Sweden and Ukraine was made, and the municipalities that will work together were confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Change needed at both national and local levels<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WM4U aims to improve Ukraine\u2019s environmental sustainability, align waste management legislation with EU standards, and promote a culture of responsible waste management among citizens. This requires change at both the national and local levels in Ukraine, through strengthened regulations and coordination at the national level, and capacity building at the local level \u2013 starting with the four pilot areas mentioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/wm4u.org.ua\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/map-1024x681.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wm4u.org.ua\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/map-1024x681.png 1024w, https:\/\/wm4u.org.ua\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/map-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/wm4u.org.ua\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/map-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/wm4u.org.ua\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/map.png 1295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Figure 1: <em>The four municipal clusters in Ukraine will be coordinated by the municipalities of Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnytsia, Kremenchuk, and Lozova.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The four municipal clusters that the Programme will work with in Ukraine are coordinated by the municipalities of Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnytsia, Kremenchuk, and Lozova. These municipalities will in turn form a municipal cluster for intermunicipal cooperation with neighboring municipalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In March, the Programme management met with representatives from the Ukrainian municipalities in Kyiv to sign a Memorandum of understanding for the work ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Y<strong>urii Tarasenko<\/strong>, Adviser to the Mayor of Kremenchuk, stated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;Our main expectation from participating in the Programme is to develop and implement innovative waste management methods based on three key components: the role of local self-government, waste processors and service providers, and residents. Without close cooperation between these three parties, success in this project will not be possible.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Thanks to the support of our more experienced Swedish colleagues, we will be able to establish well-structured clusters\u2014not limited by geographical boundaries, as boundaries exist only in our minds.\u201d<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Swedish municipal clusters are divided into four regions\/clusters: Southern, Western, Eastern, and Northern Sweden. Together they manage the waste of around 45% of Sweden\u2019s population. Swedish municipalities have experience and expertise and are both ambassadors for Swedish waste management and catalysts for the work on sustainable waste management in Ukraine. In early March, representatives from each Swedish municipal cluster met in Stockholm with the Programme leadership to discuss what the cooperation would entail in more detail. \u201c<em>The municipalities are at the core of this <\/em>Programme,\u201d said Pontus F\u00f6rberg, project manager for WM4U.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Exchange between municipalities is the core of WM4U<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exchange between Swedish and Ukrainian municipalities is at the heart of WM4U. In practice, this exchange will include general waste management training, workshops, study trips, planning, and the exchange of expertise and advice. For each municipal cluster, realistic goals, scope, focus areas, future organisational structures, and actions will be tailored to their local conditions and starting points<a>.<\/a> In addition to providing practical support at the local level, the pilots will also serve as examples to strengthen the link between local and national levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a id=\"_msocom_1\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":781,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news_category":[],"news_tag":[31],"class_list":["post-779","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_tag-waste-management-reform"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Municipalities are ready for cooperation to strengthen waste management in Ukraine | WM4U<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wm4u.org.ua\/en\/news\/municipalities-are-ready-for-cooperation-to-strengthen-waste-management-in-ukraine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Municipalities are ready for cooperation to strengthen waste management in Ukraine | WM4U\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WM4U, Waste Management for Ukraine is up and running \u2013 and the collaboration between Swedish and Ukrainian municipalities is gaining momentum. 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