About SIGIR
The Integrated Solid Waste Management Information System (SIGIR) brings together information on urban cleaning services, environmental management and recycling from the municipalities and departmental governments of Bolivia, to plan, monitor and make decisions on solid waste.
It is administered by the Ministry of Sustainable Production, Environment and Water, under Law No. 755 on Integrated Waste Management.
What information it gathers
Urban cleaning service: from storage, street sweeping and collection to the treatment of organic and recyclable waste and final disposal, site by site.
Environmental management: licences of sites and facilities, environmental monitoring reports and the annual plan of inspections and audits.
Recycling: waste pickers, associations and authorised operators, with their products and material deliveries.
Territorial data: population, regulations, planning and organisation of waste management.
Who uses it
Municipal governments record information on their services and send it for review.
Departmental governments review, return or approve that information and record their own.
The Ministry consolidates the information at national level.
Anyone can consult the approved indicators of each territory and download the open data.
GIRS Bolivia project
SIGIR 2.0 is developed within the Integrated Solid Waste Management in Bolivia project (GIRS Bolivia), funded by the European Union and implemented by UN-Habitat together with the Ministry.
The project seeks to improve municipal waste management in intermediate and small cities, with innovation, social inclusion and environmental sustainability.
Besides SIGIR, the project works on:
- innovative waste management models that other municipalities can adapt;
- a national strategy for the inclusion of waste pickers;
- technical pre-investment studies in the municipality of Yamparáez;
- a municipal integrated waste management plan for a small municipality.
