This theme includes the implementation of policy development, technical assistance and capacity building activities on several municipal solid waste aspects including: institutional, policy, financial, legislative issues, communication and PPP arrangements. This activity is also intended to enlighten the state of the art in technology, organizational and practices of handling solid wastes, waste collection and transport, moving from low to high levels of recovery and recycling of waste with the involvement, also, of the informal sector, treatment and disposal technologies including organic waste management and energy recovery.