The SWAP project
Spanning five years (2020-2024), the SWAP Project will address cost effective and sustainable management of waste and pollution.
How does SWAP achieve the mission
The SWAP contributes to the regional delivery of the Cleaner Pacific 2025; and enhancing initiatives under existing regional waste projects such as PacWaste Plus, J-PRISM2, the Pacific Ocean Litter Project (POLP) and the ISLANDS Project. This avoids duplication, optimises investment, and leverage lessons learnt and outcomes from work carried out.
The SWAP Project explores interventions for used oil, disaster waste, marine debris, and sustainable financing. Interventions range from training programmes to in-country pilot projects.
The SWAP Project includes the design and development of a Regional Training Program and the Implementation of Pilot Projects:
Support to build a Scrap Metal Recovery Facility in Wallis&Futuna that aims to reinforce a local Circular economy;
Development of National Used Oil Management Plans, as well as collection systems, and storage and/or reprocessing/recycling facilities for used oil management ;
Coastal clean-ups and data collection for marine debris management;
Rehabilitation and climate proofing of selected disposal facilities for disaster waste management; and
Hosting of regional workshops to share outcomes and experiences from the SWAP activities.
Six Pacific islands benefit from this project which include Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna.
The actions included in SWAP project have robust links to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs primarily addressed by the project include:
Goal 11: sustainable cities and communities
Goal12: responsible consumption and production
Goal13: climate action
Goal14: life below water
The presentation sheet of the SWAP project is available on this link.
Four thematics
In line with the ‘Cleaner Pacific 2025’ Strategy, SWAP project focuses on four thematic areas
These four thematic areas will be addressed
through the following three components:
The training program covers all thematic areas of SWAP. It consists of the theory of waste management practice and project management with a presentation of successful case studies and demonstration of best practices from the Pacific, and other countries with similar conditions.
Experts from the Pacific region are involved in the development and delivery of the training modules.
Pilot projects addressing the four thematic areas will be implemented in the SWAP Member Countries. The activities carried out will aim at addressing the specific needs of each member according to the priorities identified and specific to each country or territory.
The Community of Practice includes the hosting of workshops that will cover the four thematic areas of the SWAP project.
It is expected that this component will involve all Pacific islands.
This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the AFD. The views
expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the AFD.