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The Burundian Office for the Protection of the Environment, OBPE, and the laboratory of the sewage treatment plant of Buterere under the Burundian Office of Habitat, Urbanism, and Construction, OBUHA officially received the office equipment from the LATAWAMA project. The handing over of this equipment was carried out on Wednesday, August 04, 2021, in the presence of senior officers of these two institutions, such as the Director of Environment and Climate Change at OBPE, Ms. Renilde Ndayishimyiye, and the Director of Environment, Hygiene, and sanitation Mr. Cleophas Bizabishaka on behalf of OBUHA.

In the city of Kigoma, Tanzania, community-based organizations are one of the backbones of solid waste management operations. Besides, other actions in waste management have also been undertaken. Beneficiaries talked to the technical team. The feedback is heartening.

The Hydrobiology Research Centre of Uvira (CRH-Uvira), one of the partners of the EU-funded LATAWAMA project, implemented by Enabel and Lake Tanganyika Authority, is one of the four Lake Tanganyika Water Monitoring Network reference laboratories and will be responsible for collecting and analyzing water quality data from the northwest side of the Lake. Its rehabilitation and modernization begin in June 2021.

On Tuesday, April 22, 2021, the project team, in collaboration with experts from the University of Burundi and OBUHA technical staff, collected sludge samples from anaerobic basins to determine specific parameters such as viscosity, gross density, dry density, water content, BOD5.

The LATAWAMA project, funded by the European Union and implemented by Enabel, the Belgian Development Agency alongside the Lake Tanganyika Authority, is aware that to mitigate plastic pollution in the Lake Tanganyika basin, there will be no “one fix it all solution”.
However, the strategy to be deployed must be based on the circular economy’s spirit and principles and local communities participation.