Establishment Of The First Integrated Resource Recovery Center In Pakistan

The overarching goal of the partnership between ESCAP and UN-Habitat is to establish and operate the first IRRC project in Pakistan, which will be located in Islamabad's Sector G-15. This IRRC will have the capacity to process 4 ton of municipal solid waste per day, and it will treat the waste generated in the sector as well as from nearby vegetables' markets and small business enterprises. To implement this project, a multi-stakeholder approach has been adopted by ESCAP and UN-Habitat, which involves the Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan Memorial Trust (AHKMT), the Jammu Kashmir Cooperative Housing Society (JKCHS), the Agricultural Extension Department of the Arid Agriculture University of Rawalpindi, and the Climate Change Division of Pakistan. 

The project in Sector G-15 will be a pilot that will test the feasibility of the IRRC model in Pakistan and its potential for replication to other sectors in Islamabad/Rawalpindi, in particular by means of a Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) programme, whose development would be led by the Climate Change Division of Pakistan. In the medium term, it is envisaged the replication of this model to cities across the whole country.

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