Chapter 4. Waste and financing: what innovations?
By contrast, BogotĂĄ has an enviable financial position. The city covers 64% of its expenditure on the waste management service through a tax. The municipality depends on the state for only 16% of its financial resource.
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Financing waste management innovations
Figure 19.
Financial levers to implement waste recovery innovations
1. Bolstering municipal budgets Matching cost with service quality The first difficulty involves ascertaining the production costs of the municipal service in order to: develop performance and effectiveness indicators for the means of production, assess the relevance of renewing obsolete equipment and control costs. The six reference cities show that these expenditures are seldom fully known to the municipal departments themselves. The South American cities perform best on this count because, as of 2015, the ministries have made some financing conditional on well-managed accounts (Rateau, 2015). The Asian cities now keep precise accounts that make it possible to identify the main budget lines allocated to waste. The African cities find it more difficult to have precise knowledge of what their annual budget forecasts will be. In Antananarivo, government agents 97 | TECHNICAL REPORTS– No. 54 – OCTOBER 2020
