DUSHANBE, November 23, Asia-Plus — On Tuesday November 21, Dushanbe Mayor, Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev, met here with Anders Rydergren, head of consultants’ team of Sweden’s SWECO International AB, Shavkat Saidov, a spokesman for the Dushanbe mayor said.
On October 20, Ubaidulloyev and Fernand Pillonel, Head of the Dushanbe Resident Office of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), signed in Dushanbe an agreement on providing a grant for consulting services on implementation of the Dushanbe Solid Waste Management Project. The EBRD has selected Sweden’s SWECO International AB as consultant to review implementation the project.
Rydergren has arrived in Dushanbe to study the issue.
According to the mayoral spokesman, in the course of the talks Ubaidulloyev introduced specific motions on timely and detailed study of the issue and stressed that all potentials of municipal structures should be used at the first stage of the implementation of the project.
“The mayor noted that in order to improve the sanitary-hygienic situation in the city it is necessary to timely collect, recycle and dispose solid waste in the city, and as the final objective of the project the facility for processing solid waste will be constructed and the service structure will be shifted to self-financing,” the spokesman said.
According to Saidov, Rydergren, for his part, said that their company has a good experience in this direction and is ready to cooperate with the mayor’s office in implementing the project.
Saidov said that total cost of the Dushanbe Solid Waste Management Project is estimated at USD 10 million. Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) will support the project with grant funding, providing US$6.5 million, according to him.
The project, which is the first cooperation between the EBRD, SIDA and a Tajik municipality in the solid waste management sector, will bring substantial environmental, health and safety benefits to Dushanbe and surrounding communities by providing an adequate and affordable municipal waste management system.
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leading knowledge sphere in the fields of engineering, environmental technology and architecture. Its 3,700 consultants and architects develop creative solutions with a high knowledge content for the private and public sectors. SWECO has established offices in 8
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: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Russia, Finland, Bulgaria, Estonia and Lithuania. The group currently has assignments in progress in 45 countries worldwide. Several companies in the Group were founded more than 100 years ago and have since then served as a driving force for technological development in their core areas.
