Installation of a PROMOGED information office at Mbeubeuss by Director Ibrahima Diagne

The coordination team of the Project for the Promotion of Integrated Solid Waste Management (PROMOGED) has set up an information office at the Mbeubeuss landfill site, in the suburbs of Dakar, to record the concerns of people affected by the implementation of this project, according to its director, Ibrahima Diagne.

We have set up an information and complaints office on the site of the landfill to allow all those requesting information to have answers to questions related to compensation and others. The reclaimers and local residents pass by almost every day," he said in an interview with APS.

He stressed that several requests and complaints are recorded daily in this office, stating that it "must be transparent enough in this kind of project and collect upstream the concerns of the people to provide answers as quickly as possible.

"The big challenge for us is to reassure the people affected, because they were worried as soon as they learned in the street that the landfill will be closed. And on our side, our duty was to reassure all the people who work on this site as well as the local residents," explained Ibrahima Diagne.

The Project for the Promotion of Integrated Management and Economy of Solid Waste (PROMOGED) was launched in June 2021.
 
PROMOGED, the second phase of the national waste management program (PNGD) defined in 2014, covers 138 municipalities spread across the regions of Dakar, Thies, Sédhiou, Kolda, Ziguinchor, Saint-Louis and Matam.
 
The objective is to strengthen solid waste management governance in Senegal and improve solid waste management services in the selected cities.

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