Solid Waste Management and Public Private Partnership in Palestine

Abstract

Over the last years, Palestine has suffered due to unstable political and economic situation, resulting in years of inadequate infrastructure investment and poor provision of public services to the people of Palestine. The provision of standards of the Joint Service Councils (JSCs) for solid waste management leads the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) to privatize some of infrastructure projects and public services in order to upgrade the level of services. Now, 54% of JSCs have already held some sort of public-private partnership (PPP) in the fields of waste collection & transportation, sanitary landfill operation, recyclables sorting, composting, and material recycling. Promotional and inhibiting factors for developing PPP is discussed.