The SSI works on supporting cities and communities with safe, efficient, and sustainable solid waste management.
This work focuses on:
Developing city-level action plans to advance the transition towards a circular economy.
Technical and programme management support to deliver environmentally, financially, and institutionally feasible models at scale.
Designing and implementing initiatives to deliver affordable services to empower communities and waste workers.
Facilitating multi-stakeholder collaborations to influence policy, innovation, and improvements in waste management practices.
Featured Projects
City–Farmer Partnership for Solid Waste Management (2024-2027)IIHS is supporting the implementation a city–farmer partnership for solid waste management in Chikkaballapura and Doddaballapura, Karnataka. The project supplies segregated municipal wet waste to local farmers for composting, reducing waste volume and processing costs, and lowering farmers’ chemical fertiliser costs. Campaigns promoting waste segregation at source are a critical part of the project. It is funded by Godrej Properties.
Technical support for efficient operations of micro-composting centres and integration of informal workers in Tiruchirappalli (2024-2025)IIHS supported efficiency improvements in 40 micro-composting centres of the Tiruchirappalli City Corporation, promoting waste segregation, upgrading processing facilities, and building stakeholder capacity. The project also helped the Corporation improve monitoring and increase waste processing capacity by about 50,000 tonnes annually. It included integrating informal workers and providing enterprise development and livelihood support. The project was funded by GIZ’s Circular Waste Solutions initiative.
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